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World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

Daniel Pye 20 May 2016

Will Indonesia’s new palm oil subsidy undermine no-deforestation push?

Sapariah Saturi 1 Sep 2015

Not just any Wilmar supplier caught violating no-deforestation policy

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2015

Wilmar accused of Nigerian ‘land grab’ for palm oil

Greg Norman 21 Jul 2015

Wilmar, Musim Mas supplier still destroying forest for oil palm in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2015

Damming Dissent: Community leaders behind bars in Guatemala after opposing hydro projects

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jul 2015

GAR, Wilmar punish palm oil supplier for clearing rainforest in New Guinea

Mongabay.com 28 May 2015

Ghosts of problems past and present loom over Nigerian palm oil plans

Greg Norman 28 May 2015

Wilmar, Musim Mas supplier caught clearing elephant habitat for palm oil in Aceh

Mongabay.com 12 May 2015

Jokowi must strengthen Indonesia’s forest moratorium, not just extend it: activists

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2015

Indonesia’s public water movement consolidates after two of its biggest wins

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2015

Criticism of GAR and Wilmar African oil palm projects highlight global ‘no-deforestation’ challenges

Greg Norman 16 Apr 2015

Palm oil companies, NGOs endorse new deforestation-limiting toolkit

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Apr 2015

Blockade at Wilmar mill could erupt into full-blown strike

Andi Fachrizal 3 Apr 2015

World Bank’s forest carbon program falls short on indigenous peoples’ rights, argues report

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2015

Norway puts $1.6B into rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2014

Global warming puts trillions at stake, but mitigation offers big economic gains

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2014

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

Activists blast World Bank on continued support of industrial rainforest logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2013

World Bank’s forestry investments failing to meet conservation, rights, and anti-poverty goals, finds internal audit

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2013

World Bank REDD+ forest carbon fund gets $180m injection

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2013

World Bank: 4 degrees Celsius warming would be miserable

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

Artificial ‘misting system’ allows vanished toad to be released back into the wild

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2012

World Bank agrees to fund project related to controversial Gibe III dam

Michael Rudolph 27 Sep 2012

Interview with the new CEO of The GEF, the world’s largest funder of environmental projects

Mark Szotek 30 Jul 2012

Fight illegal logging by going after criminal masterminds

Jeremy Hance 22 Mar 2012

Caution urged in sale of Madagascar’s illegal timber stockpiles

Wildmadagascar.org 3 Feb 2012

Palm oil lobby attacks World Bank’s new social and environmental safeguards

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2011

World Bank proposes to limit funding to coal plants

Jeremy Hance 5 Apr 2011

World Bank to resume lending to palm oil sector after 18-month moratorium

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2011

Serengeti road project opposed by ‘powerful’ tour company lobby

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2011

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