Jun. 17, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
In Sofala province, Mozambique, a group of initiatives collectively known as the N’hambita Pilot Project have been promoted as a flagship program for the protection of forests and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The United Nations...
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Jun. 11, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Industrial agriculture has long been a major cause of forest destruction, but the ceaseless expansion of palm oil plantations for food, fuel and cosmetics is wreaking havoc on an unprecedented scale, and has become the biggest single cause of fore...
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May. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Friends of the Earth is deeply devoted to curbing both deforestation and averting catastrophic climate change. Yet FoE’s international forests campaign has been actively engaged in opposing California’s pending adoption of a program kn...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
In a press release issued yesterday by Friends of the Earth International, we asked for cancellation of a World Bank loan to Honduran palm oil producer Grupo Dinant. Here's why:
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