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Converting Peat Swamp to Palm Oil Plantations Contributes to Climate Change

April 15, 2014April 15, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Converting peat swamp forests in Southeast Asia into industrial oil palm and pulpwood plantations releases emissions, threatens biodiversity and ultimately accelerates climate change, according to a guest column by a Princeton professor and PhD candidate at the university. As trees are stripped from peat swamp to make room for oil palm ... Read more »

Fires in Indonesia Spike to High Levels

March 14, 2014March 14, 2014 by Bill Opalka

Forest and peat fires in Indonesia’s Riau province, on the island of Sumatra, spiked to levels not seen since the previous Southeast Asian haze crisis of June 2013, according to a blog post by the World Resources Institute. The fires are extensive in areas with deep peat soils, suggesting high ... Read more »

Rainforest Alliance, Peatland Experts to Evaluate APP Progress

February 10, 2014February 10, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

The Rainforest Alliance will evaluate the progress of Asia Pulp and Paper’s forest conservation policy and commitments, including its pledge last year to stop clearing natural forests across it supply chains in Indonesia, the company announced in its one-year report. A team of peatland experts led by Wageningen University and ... Read more »

April’s Sustainable Forest Management Policy Met With Criticism, Caution

January 31, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Asia Pacific Resources International has revealed plans for a sustainable forest management policy less than two weeks after the Indonesian pulp and paper giant was threatened with expulsion from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The sustainable forest management policy reiterates the pulp and paper producer’s previously shared plans to ... Read more »

Lululemon, Patagonia Pledge End to Endangered Forest Fiber Use

November 1, 2013November 1, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Designer Eileen Fisher, apparel companies Quiksilver, Prana, Patagonia, Lululemon Athletica and other global clothing brands with revenues totaling more than $4 billion have partnered with environmental organization Canopy to develop purchasing policies that aim to end the use of endangered forest fiber. The companies along with 14 eco-designers are working ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: ‘Flexible’ Climate Approach, Mining Water Permits

October 23, 2013October 23, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

US special envoy for climate change Todd Stern called for the next United Nations climate deal to follow a more flexible approach. Countries should be permitted to determine their own levels of commitment, rather than adhering to negotiated targets and timetables, Stern said. Participants will meet to discuss the new ... Read more »

Rubber Industry to Create Sustainability Standards

September 4, 2013November 26, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The International Rubber Study Group aims to set up a voluntary certification program and standards for sustainable natural rubber, a $30 billion a cash crop, the Wall Street Journal reports. Skyrocketing demand in the last decade and led to record-high prices and new rubber plantations outside of Thailand, Indonesia and ... Read more »

APP to Stop Cutting Rainforest

February 5, 2013October 11, 2018 by Kirsten Korosec

Asia Pulp and Paper Group, one of the largest paper producers in the world, announced it would stop clearing natural forests across its supply chains in Indonesia, accelerating a pledge to use only trees from plantations by 2015. APP, a unit of Sinar Mas Group, said in its new Forest ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Wind Farm Bird Strikes, UK Green Investment Bank, EPA Fracking Tests

October 19, 2012June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

A coalition of eight conservation organizations has called on the US Fish and Wildlife Service to make changes at a wind energy facility in Western Maryland to reduce bird and bat mortality. The groups say that the 28-turbine Criterion Wind Project now ranks as the deadliest to birds in the ... Read more »

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