On 20 October 2014, Indonesia inaugurated its new president: Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. The following day, Jokowi wrote to the House of Representatives with a list of proposed changes to ministries. Jokowi is proposing merging the Environment Ministry and the Forestry Ministry.
Tag: Deforestation
AIDESEP and Rainforest Foundation Norway warn that Peru must improve policy on forests and indigenous peoples
AIDESEP and Rainforest Foundation Norway welcome the deforestation deal signed between Norway, Germany, and Peru, but warn that Peru must improve its “policy and practices on forests and indigenous peoples’ rights”.
The New York Declaration on Forests: An agreement to continue deforestation until 2030
How the New York Declaration on Forests came from Davos to New York, via Washington. But skipped Brasilia.
Don’t plant trees to address climate change. Instead, leave fossil fuels in the ground
Last week, the New York Times published an article that argues that, “The science says that spending precious dollars for climate change mitigation on forestry is high-risk”. It is written by Nadine Unger, an assistant professor of atmospheric chemistry at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.
“Ebola is winning.” Liberia appeals for urgent help battling the disease that has West Africa under siege
Liberia’s defence minister, Brownie Samukai, told the UN Security Council this week that Ebola is “spreading like wildfire”. The international response so far has been slow and inadequate.