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Aida Greenbury steps down from HCSA Foundation board
The former Asia Pulp and Paper chief sustainability officer has stepped down from the High Carbon Stock Approach Foundation board after 10 years with the tropical forest conservation group. The Indonesian palm oil smallholders union that Greenbury advises, SPKS, has also resigned from HCSA.
Food & Agriculture
‘Forest promises pulped’: Greenpeace publishes critique of APP’s no-deforestation pledge, 10 years on
Greenpeace, which helped forge the Indonesian paper giant's historic pledge in 2013, says it has not lived up to its decade-old commitment to weed deforestation out of its supply chain. APP has rejected the allegations.
Food & Agriculture
Indonesia’s peatlands are more fire-prone than official figures claim as dry season looms: study
As a dry season exacerbated by El Niño approaches, a new study warns that large expanses of Indonesia's climate-critical peatlands may not be sufficiently restored after the fires of 2015, despite government claims.
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