Posts tagged no-deforestation pledge
Key Trends to Watch: Perils and Promise for Rainforests in 2016
RainforestsBill Laurancerainforest, 2016, deforestation, carbon emissions, commodity prices, timber, oil palm, soy, beef, oil, mining, minerals, China, roads, infrastructure, Africa, El Nino, drought, Godzilla, Indonesia, haze, peat fires, peatland, Southeast Asia, Brazil, recession, exports, hydroelectric dams, Amazon, Mata Atlantica, Atlantic forests, President Dilma, Zero-deforestation agreement, no-deforestation pledge, wood pulp, land-use planning, Malaysia, Paris COP, REDD, REDD+, global warming, climate change, biodiversity, scientific uncertainty
Real hope for the world's rainforests
Bill Laurancedeforestation, rainforests, illegal activities, no-deforestation pledge, zero deforestation, satellite monitoring, drones, automatic cameras, DNA technologies, real-time monitoring, oil palm, soy, beef, wood pulp, Brazil, Amazon, Rhett Butler, Mongabay
Company to spend $12 million felling Papua's rainforests
Bill LauranceWilmar, oil palm, palm oil, deforestation, Papua, Indonesia, ANJT, no-deforestation pledge, New Guinea, Indonesian Papua, forest clearing
Will corporations save the Earth?
Bill Laurancemultinational corporations, Alice Korngold, globalization, global problems, global environmental crises, Golden Agri Resources, Asia Pulp & Paper, Greenpeace, social issues, no-deforestation pledge, corporate-NGO alliances
Mega-corporation still destroying forests, despite green pledge
Bill LauranceAPRIL, Sumatra, Indonesia, paper pulp, deforestation, forest clearing, rainforest, biodiversity, no-deforestation pledge, no deforestation, Foreign Correspondent, Bill Laurance, Greenpeace
World's biggest oil palm producer criticized for breaking pledge
PoliticsBill LauranceWilmar, Balikpapan, deforestation, no-deforestation pledge, oil palm, Indonesia, NGOs, Kalimantan, rainforest, peat forest, peatlands
Are global forest-destroyers turning over a new leaf?
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceAPRIL, APP, Golden Agri Resources, Wilmar, oil palm, deforestation, tropical forests, logging, wood pulp, paper pulp, plantations, Asia, Indonesia, no-deforestation pledge, free and prior informed consent