This post was prompted by emails from groups seemingly (at the time, and now confirmed) associated with Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) that made dubious claims about the environmental, social,…
Alan Oxley, a lobbyist for industrial forestry companies in the palm oil and pulp and paper sectors, is deliberately misleading the public on deforestation and associated greenhouse gas emissions, said…
Sinar Mas Group, the sprawling Indonesian conglomerate that has interests in coal mining, logging and wood-pulp production, palm oil plantations, real estate, and other industries, has hired Cameron Hume, the…
A major wood-pulp company is misleading the public over its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a carbon conservation project in Sumatra, claims Greenomics, an Indonesian activist group. Greenomics…
The struggle against Brazil's Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River continues as today indigenous groups sent a formal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to suspend…
Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), sebuah badan yang menetapkan standar untuk produksi minyak kelapa ramah lingkungan, pada hari Kamis mengatakan bahwa produsen minyak kelapa Indonesia Sinar Mas Agro Resources…
by 1 November 2010
Nobel Prize winner condemns lobbyist for using her name in support of his pro-logging agenda. An industrial lobbyist is facing mounting criticism for his campaign to reduce social and environmental…
A group of prominent scientists has published an open letter challenging the objectivity of World Growth International, an NGO that claims to operate on behalf of the world's poor, and…
This letter was submitted to The New Straits Times a week ago in response to an editorial penned by Alan Oxley. The New Straits Times has not published the letter…
The rise of industrial deforestation and its implications for conservation. The image of rainforests being torn down by giant bulldozers, felled by chainsaw-wielding loggers, and torched by large-scale developers has…
Malaysia and Indonesia should establish "a joint council based in Europe and the United States" to boost the image of palm oil and counter criticism from environmental and human rights…
Note: Stora Enso issued a response to this report here. Finnish paper company, Stora Enso, may lose its green and socially responsible reputation over a new report by Rights and…
by 6 October 2010
Asia Pulp & Paper menyewa perusahaan PR-nya untuk melakukan pekerjaan kotor pada Greenpeace tapi tidak berhasil. Sebuah audit baru yang sepertinya membebaskan Asia Pulp & Paper dari tuduhan praktek penebangan…
UK newspapers have been flooded this week and last by reports of the Commonwealth Games’ venue literally caving in and collapsing, athletes have deemed their village accommodation "filthy" and terrorists…
Asia Pulp & Paper hires its PR firm to do a hit job on Greenpeace but comes up short. A new audit that seems to exonerate Asia Pulp & Paper…
The Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body the sets standards for eco-friendly palm oil production, on Thursday said Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology…
Sinar Mas menghadapi reaksi yang tidak menyenangkan akibat klaim yang salah, yang dibuatnya sebagai respon pada kampanye lingkungan melawan penggundulan hutan. Sinar Mas, konglomerat Indonesia yang kepemilikannya mencakup Asia Pulp…
Cargill has not suspended its relationship with a palm oil company recently exposed for misleading investors and buyers on its environmental transgressions, reports the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an activist…
Sinar Mas faces backlash from false claims made in response to environmental campaign against deforestation. Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate whose holdings include Asia Pulp and Paper, a paper products…
Although developers and government often tout dams as environmentally-friendly energy sources, this is not always the case. Dams impact river flows, changing ecosystems indefinitely; they may flood large areas forcing…
Asia Pulp & Paper, which has long been a target of green groups for deforestation and threatening imperiled species, is touting a new audit the pulping company says finds allegations…
With 18,000 islands spanning two major bigeographic realms (and a curious outlier in Sulawesi) across an area of nearly 2 million square kilometers, Indonesia is one of the world's most…
"President Obama called it 'the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.' So I thought I should face it and head to the Gulf"—these are the opening words on the…
Meski pemerintah Indonesia menikmati perjanjian terakhir dengan Norwegia untuk memperlambat penggundulan hutan dalam bentuk miliaran dolar AS, sebuah laporan baru dari Eyes on the Forest menunjukkan bukti fotografis dari banyak…
While the Indonesian government basks in a recent agreement with Norway to slow deforestation to the tune of a billion US dollars, a new report by Eyes on the Forest…
Walmart memprotes pernyataan Greenpeace yang menyebut perusahaan retail ini terlibat penghancuran hutan di Indonesia. Walmart memasarkan produk Asia Pulp and Paper, anak perusahaan Sinar Mas Group yang bertanggung jawab atas…
Walmart on Wednesday fired back at Greenpeace after the activist group linked the retail giant to destruction of Indonesia's rainforests through its purchases from Sinar Mas Group's Asia Pulp &…
Researchers have questioned 2009 findings by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) that found that India's forests were, unlike many tropical Asian nations', on the rebound. According to the FSI,…
Nestle berusaha menghilangkan produk dengan "footprint penggundulan hutan". Setelah kampanye dua bulan yang dipelopori oleh Greenpeace melawan Nestle karena mereka menggunakan minyak kelapa yang terkait dengan perusakan hutan, raksasa pangan…
Radical, controversial, ahead-of-his-time, brilliant, or extremist: call Dr. Glen Barry, the head of Ecological Internet, what you will, but there is no question that his environmental advocacy group has achieved…