Tag Archives : reforestation

Realists claim that the Copenhagen Climate Conference or the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference 2009 will fail in its intended agenda, and that no climate deals will be forged between December 7 and 18 of 2009. Months before the climate summit, it had already been clear that climate negotiations will hit a standoff. ‘The rest of the world has been [...]

In 1997, the three energy multinationals American Electric Power (AEP), BP-Amoco (BP), and Paci?corp signed an agreement with the government of Bolivia. The deal involved for these companies to be allocated the carbon offsets generated by keeping trees standing, ‘in return for millions of dollars of investment for the protection of an area of rainforest [...]

More than 70 percent of Indonesia’s original forest cover has been lost. Logging, which is mostly illegal, is estimated to destroy over 2.4 million hectares per year. Re-elected Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gets international praise for leading the fight against deforestation in his country. All Indonesian presidents in [...]

The Western demand for beef and leather is dictating the current trend in overranching in the Amazon forests of Brazil, thus causing persistent deforestation. So says a three-year survey conducted by Greenpeace. Cattle seems to produce a lot of lucrative products and by-products: meat for fresh and canned food, leather hide for fashion, fat for toothpaste, [...]