Opinion / #logging
Carbon & Climate
Conservation law takes a step forward in Indonesia
Strong legislation backed by science and technology could help protect Indonesia’s wildlife.
Indigenous communities in Sarawak have been monitoring their forests for the past year, gathering data to counter a logging company's assumptions about the value of their traditional lands.
Policy & Finance
Indigenous communities threatened with legal action by timber giant as flooding devastates Sarawak
As indigenous communities in Sarawak deal with the second flooding of the year, they also face legal harassment by timber giant Samling in an unprecedented move that seems designed to silence criticism.
Carbon & Climate
Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is an effective low-tech way to slow climate change
Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilise Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.
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News / Food & Agriculture
Deforestation found in RGE supply chain as paper and palm oil giant linked to mega mill in Indonesia: NGO report
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News / Carbon & Climate
Verra founding CEO to resign, president appointed interim chief
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News / Transport & Logistics
Replacing traditional tricycles with e-trikes in tropical Boracay – a transition that needs to be just: GerWeiss Motors chief
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News / Carbon & Climate
Fossil fuel firms should pay trillions in reparations for impending climate chaos: study
Climate calamity will cost US$99 trillion in loss and damage by 2100, and the fossil fuel industry is … -
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News / Policy & Finance
Millions in unpaid taxes amassed by Indonesian oil palm plantations
Taxes are not paid on some 9 million hectares (22.2 million acres), an area three times the size …
