Indonesia Moves to Certify All Wood as Sustainably Derived?
Interesting developments in Indonesia on the deforestation front! An editorial in the Jakarta Post discusses a recent announcement from the Indonesian Forestry...
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Will Europe Address Illegal Logging Imports?
I was looking for something else and just stumbled upon this news from the European effort to address illegal logging . As a part of a vote on the EU joining...
My Comment on Dot Earth Post on IUCN President’s Call-Out of Developing Countries
I just posted a comment on a new Dot Earth post Wildlife Group Presses Poor Nations on CO2 . The article starts with the following statement (to wet your...
Illegal (B)Logging and Climate Change
As the New Yorker highlighted in their recent article Stolen Forests , illegal logging is a major problem -- causing deforestation, supporting criminal groups...
Race is on to Halt Brazilian Forest Loss by 2015
The Brazilian government will release a goal to cut net deforestation to zero by 2015, as a part of a draft climate change action plan , as reported by the BBC...
“Nobel Prizers” on Deforestation
Yesterday, I attended a sort of star studded event with my colleague Jacob Scherr to discuss reducing emissions from deforestation as a part of efforts to...