Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Nov 16, 2010 (IPS) – All eyes are on Indonesia and its forest policy as climate- change negotiations continue in the upcoming global talks in Mexico, against the prospect of billions of dollars flowing from the planet’s major polluters to the developing world to [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
August 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Silvana Silveira* MONTEVIDEO, Aug 17, 2010 (Tierramérica) – "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Colombian Forest Project Reaps Credits… and Criticism
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stephen Leahy* – Tierramérica UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 6 (IPS) – The ”Procuenca Initiative” in the Andes region of western Colombia may be the first in the world to sell certified forest carbon credits with a biodiversity protection component. But alarms are sounding about the potential negative social and environmental [...]
Business Throws Entire Forests in the Toilet
April 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Babukar Kashka IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – The good news is that access to sanitation has improved in developing countries. The bad news is that paper manufacturing companies are riding the tide dumping entire forests down in water closet in the form of toilet paper. No paper manufacturer [...]
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: All Eyes on Forest Protection Body
March 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Keya Acharya KOTAGIRI, NILGIRI MOUNTAINS, India, Mar 15 (IPS) – Seemingly unstoppable development has made a mockery of the protected status of this southern Indian region, which houses vast biodiversity and some of the finest examples of moist deciduous and tropical forests. In the last decade alone, the urban [...]
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Law on Forest Rights Fails to Deliver
March 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Manipadma Jena BHUBANESWAR, India, Mar 13 , 2010 (IPS) – A four-year-old landmark law that was supposed to bring profound changes in the lives of India’s tribal and forest-dwelling peoples has failed to deliver on that promise. According to activists and government officials alike, the Scheduled Tribes and [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Much More Than Carbon Storage
October 28, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica BUENOS AIRES, Oct 28 (IPS) – The world’s forests and jungles are much more than carbon storage sites and compensation for greenhouse emissions, experts and activists point out to governments that are negotiating a new global climate change treaty. Forests hold two-thirds of the planet’s [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Taking Forests into Account
October 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Oct 16 (IPS) – What role can forests play in the fight against climate change? What impact do tree plantations have? What effect will the bioenergy craze have on forests? These are some of the questions that experts, government officials and business leaders from around [...]
