Earlier this month, two meetings took place, both focussing on oil palm plantations. The first was a meeting of communities and civil society and took place in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The second was the 11th meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Category: Indonesia
HSBC is bankrolling forest destruction
At a meeting last month organised by the Forest Stewardship Council, HSBC’s Francis Sullivan said that if a company doesn’t pass the bank’s sustainability risk tests, then it won’t get a loan.
Indigenous peoples’ rights and the status of forest land in Indonesia
A recent meeting in Indonesia addressed three important issues facing the future of the forests in the country: gazettement of state forest; exclusion of indigenous peoples’ forest from the state forest; and the resolution of forestry conflicts.
Empty promises: All that remains of Indonesia’s climate plans
At the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh in 2009, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Indonesia’s President famously promised that Indonesia would reduce its emissions by 26% by 2020 from business as usual. With international suppport, he said, Indonesia could reduce emissions by 41%. Four years on and there’s practically nothing to show for Yudhoyono’s promises.
Almost half of Norway’s climate and forest aid remains unspent
In 2007, at the UN climate negotiations in Bali, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced his ambitious plans to save tropical forests. Six years later, Norway has disbursed more than US$1.4 billion but almost half of that remains unspent.