“Our green economic mantra is called ‘pro-growth, pro-job, pro-poor, pro-environment’ – and of course pro-business,” Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia’s President, told the Business for Environment Conference at the end of April 2011.
Author: Chris Lang
Brazil’s deforestation rate soars. What now for REDD?
On 24 May 2011, Brazil’s House of Congress approved revisions to the country’s forest code. It now goes to the Senate and, if approved there, requires the approval of Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff. If passed, the new forest code would reduce the area of forest that farmers and ranchers must preserve and would allow clearing…
Is Indonesia’s “moratorium” worth the paper it’s written on?
“It’s important to remember the moratorium is not primarily about what won’t take place during that two year-period, e.g. halting conversion of forest for economic development. Much more significant is what will take place during that same timeframe.” That’s Aida Greenbury of Asia Pulp and Paper
Erik Solheim requested to reply to eight points of concern about Norway-Guyana MoU
On 24 March 2011, members of Guyanese civil society and two Members of Parliament sent a letter to Erik Solheim, Norway’s Minister of the Environment and International Development. The letter raised “eight key problems with the operation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of Guyana and Norway”.
Interview with Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative: “The global market for forest carbon is not going to establish itself anytime soon”
Interview with Andy White, Coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative, Washington DC, by email.