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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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21/05/2012 Junking the Jungle: How KFC is Junking the Jungle by Driving Rainforest Destruction in Indonesia
Greenpeace International research has revealed that KFC is sourcing paper for its packaging products ...
Greenpeace International

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11/05/2012 Driving Destruction in the Amazon: How Steel Production is Throwing the Forest into the Furnace
Greenpeace says that wood charcoal is burning up more than what’s for dinner at backyard barbecues. ...
Greenpeace

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14/03/2012 Asia Pulp and Paper (APP): Pulpwood Suppliers' Own Operational Plans Reveal Deliberate Clearing of Ramin and Other Protected Tree Species
In response to a Greenpeace report (March 2012) revealing the use of ramin timber as a raw material for ...
Greenomics, Indonesia

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13/12/2011 The Truth Behind APP’s Greenwash
The authors of this NGO coalition report say that while SMG/APP has been operating in Riau and Jambi ...
Eyes on the Forest, Riau, Indonesia

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25/07/2011 Pandering to the Loggers
The World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) is one of the world’s ...
Global Witness

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07/06/2011 How APP is Toying with Extinction
This report explains how many top brands within the toy sector are manufactured in China and Indonesia ...
Greenpeace

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31/05/2011 Soya and the Cerrado: Brazil's Forgotten Jewel
This report has highlights the impact that the growing global demand for soya is having on sensitive ...
WWF

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24/01/2011 How Western Environmental Policies Are Stunting Economic Growth in Developing Countries
The author argues that governments and large agribusinesses are increasingly using the environmentalist ...
The Heritage Foundation, US (James Roberts)

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10/01/2011 Time for Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) to Come Clean to Stakeholders on its Indonesian Operations: Letter & Report to APP Stakeholders
The authors note that in a report published on 1 August 2010, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) made claims ...
Greenomics Indonesia

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NEWS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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02/05/2013 Extending the Success Against Illegal Logging to Palm Oil and Other Drivers of Deforestation
The week before last I had the opportunity to go to London to participate in a workshop at Chatham House, ...
Doug Boucher for The Equation

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04/04/2013 Neste Oil to work closer with its stakeholders to protect the world's rainforests
Neste Oil is to strengthen its commitment to procuring sustainable renewable raw materials by beginning ...
Market Watch, Wall Street Journal

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21/03/2013 5 Key Changes That Will Secure the Future of Our Forests
Deforestation destroys ecosystems and increases carbon emissions. The cause of deforestation is twofold: ...
Huffington Post (blog)

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14/03/2013 Nestle sets social, environmental targets for 2020
Nestle, the world's biggest food company, published on Wednesday a raft of social and environmental ...
Planet Ark

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05/02/2013 Paper giant APP promises no deforestation in Indonesia
The world's third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said on Tuesday it had stopped using ...
The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia

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27/11/2012 New regulations will cut illegal logging
A leading provider of temporary road and pedestrian surfaces is paving the way to help prevent climate ...
Specifiation Online, UK

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05/11/2012 Disney’s new paper policy aims to save the rainforests
The Walt Disney Company announced its new paper policy on October 11 which establishes guidelines for ...
Triple Pundit

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31/10/2012 KFC UK drops rainforest fiber
KFC UK/Ireland will no longer use packaging from suppliers actively involved in rainforest clearance, ...
Environmental Leader

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31/10/2012 UK sustainable palm oil targets are too weak, say retailers
Retail bodies say they have already signed up to much stricter standards on sustainable p.alm oil than ...
The Guardian, UK

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30/10/2012 Government and businesses to shelve unsustainable palm oil
Fifteen industry bodies pledge to source only sustainable palm oil by 2015, but critics question the ...
Business Green

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18/10/2012 British American Tobacco in anti-deforestation drive
Cigarette-maker British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched a rocket barn trial project in a bid to slow ...
News Day, Zimbabwe

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01/10/2012 Inspect us, wood concessionaires ask gov’t
The Philippine Wood Producers Association (PWPA) is asking President Aquino that all wood concessionaires ...
Malaya Business Insight

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27/09/2012 Sustainability pact aside, Greenpeace says paper giant APP must stop facilitating deforestation
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) must stop accepting timber sourced from clearance of rainforests and peatlands ...
Mongabay.com

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26/09/2012 In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant APP turn over a new leaf?
Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp ...
Mongabay.com

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22/09/2012 Seeing the wood for the trees
Suppose you want to buy a table. But you care about orang-utans, indigenous peoples and carbon emissions, ...
The Economist, UK

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06/09/2012 APP establishes deforestation moratorium in Jambi; greens remain skeptical
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has established a moratorium on natural forest conversion in Jambi province ...
Mongabay.com

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20/08/2012 Insight-DNA tests tell trees from the wood; curb illegal logging
* Global illegal timber trade worth up to $30 bln -Interpol

* DNA tests reveal species, origin of ...
Reuters

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09/08/2012 Cross-sector partnership on deforestation could be game changing
A partnership between the US government and 20 of the world's largest companies is aiming to eliminate ...
The Guardian, UK

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02/08/2012 Pig iron producers sign zero deforestation pledge after Greenpeace campaign
Pig iron producers in the Brazilian state of Maranhão today pledged to stop using charcoal produced ...
Mongabay.com

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26/07/2012 Rural education programme emphasises zero tolerance on hunting, killing and capture of orangutans
Orangutan Foundation International and Asia Pulp & Paper launch orangutan training initiative

Jakarta ...
APP

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24/07/2012 Two Sides U.S. and the Forest Legality Alliance collaborate to promote the responsible production and use of paper
Chicago, IL - Two Sides U.S. has joined the Forest Legality Alliance (FLA), a joint effort of WRI and ...
MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal

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13/06/2012 Marks & Spencer deal: good for the environment and good for voluntary carbon offsetting
Marks & Spencer last week became the first major retailer to go carbon neutral, in part by supporting ...
Ecosystem Marketplace

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05/06/2012 Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) charts a course to world-class industry standards in sustainable business
Sustainability Roadmap sees HCVF protection and carbon assessments for all plantations to address climate ...
MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal

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31/05/2012 Sky's battle to save the Amazon
The company began collaborating with WWF and local governments in 2009 to prevent 1bn trees from being ...
The Guardian, UK

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23/05/2012 MTH is in everyday life; Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) response to the Greenpeace KFC Campaign
Source: Asia Pulp & Paper Group

Jakarta, Indonesia - In its latest report Junking ...
MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal

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19/05/2012 Nestlé + Greenpeace: A model for sustainable sourcing of palm oil?
A partnership between Nestlé, The Forest Trust and a leading palm oil supplier may have created ...
Triple Pundit

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17/05/2012 Ford, GM and BMW linked to illegal logging and slave labour in Brazil
Car makers source iron from Brazil that contributes to Amazon deforestation, says Greenpeace ahead of ...
The Guardian, UK

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15/05/2012 Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) announces new policies on high conservation value forest
Jakarta - Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) has announced its new High Conservation Value Forest policies ...
APP

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15/05/2012 Cottonsoft welcomes new forest protection policies
Tissue and toilet paper manufacturer Cottonsoft has welcomed a raft of new sustainability measures by ...
Voxy.co.nz, New Zealand

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04/05/2012 Illegal logging, contract cancellations fuel investor flight from APP
The notorious company Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), linked to illegal logging and the clearance of Sumatran ...
Greenpeace International

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05/04/2012 Is APP closer to throwing in the towel after losing 9 more customers?
The latest milestone in the fight between Greenpeace and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) was announced earlier ...
Triple Pundit

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22/03/2012 Timber industry praised by Government
The Timber Trade Federation has welcomed praise from Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International ...
TTJ, The Timber Industry Magazine, UK

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17/03/2012 APP affiliates in U.S., Australia, pledge to drop controversial pulp supplier linked to deforestation
Two affiliates of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) have announced they are severing at least some ties with ...
Mongabay.com

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23/02/2012 Tesco and RSPB join forces to protect rainforests
The retailer and wildlife conservation charity hope the initiative – Together for Trees – ...
The Guardian, UK

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20/02/2012 Paper industry decimating Indonesia's tigers
Washington - The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous ...
IPSNews

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08/02/2012 Girl Scouts fighting for deforestation-free cookies win United Nations award
New York – The United Nations today awarded Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, two 16-year-old ...
Union of Concerned Scientists News Center

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07/02/2012 Big business recognises risks and opportunities of forest risk commodities
Forest Footprint Disclosure’s Third Annual Review highlights industry leaders in disclosing forest ...
Forest Footprint Disclosure

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22/12/2011 British firm blacklists Tasmanian timber
The Prime Minister's peace deal was supposed to end decades of conflict in Tasmania's forests ...
ABC News, Australia

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13/12/2011 APP’s tiger sanctuary ‘greenwash’ is hogwash
A forest tiger sanctuary, which is claimed by giant paper and pulp producer APP to be proof of their ...
WWF

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13/12/2011 The EU Ecolabel and Asia Pulp and Paper
In 2006 the EU Ecolabel was awarded to two brands of photocopy paper – Golden Plus and Lucky Boss ...
FERN

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10/12/2011 Controversial pulp and paper companies underwrite Indonesia's climate change pavilion in Durban
A 'significant proprtion' of Indonesia's $3.3. million pavilion at climate talks in Durban ...
Mongabay.com

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02/12/2011 Air France helps fight against deforestation in Madagascar
Air France has announced that a project to tackle deforestation in Madagascar is seeing 'positive ...
Opodo Travel News

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29/11/2011 Play responsibly: guitar makers seek sustainable sound
Famed manufacturers, like Gibson and Fender, are experimenting with innovative ways to use their ever-dwindling ...
The Atlantic, US

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28/11/2011 Asia Pulp & Paper lashes back at Greenpeace
Asia Pulp & Papers (APP) has been accused repeatedly by Greenpeace of causing deforestation in Indonesia ...
Triple Pundit

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23/11/2011 Asia Pulp & Paper in ‘Full Compliance’ with European Ecolabel
European Commission report rules that Pindo Deli products meet Ecolabel standards

Jakarta, Indonesia ...
APP Indonesia

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08/11/2011 Greenpeace responds to APP's latest claims
Organisation says APP statement is 'nothing but PR-driven nonsense'. ...
Toy News Online

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03/11/2011 Pulp and paper giant battles with Greenpeace over deforestation claims
Ottawa - An international pulp and paper giant with operations in Canada says it's being victimized ...
Montreal Gazette, Canada

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01/11/2011 Toymaker Hasbro cuts deforestation from its supply chain
Hasbro, the second largest American toy company, today announced a new packaging policy that excludes ...
Mongabay.com

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27/10/2011 COCOBOD asks stakeholders to focus on reducing deforestation
The Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Anthony Fofie, has asked all stakeholders in the cocoa industry ...
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation

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24/10/2011 Worst food additive ever? It's in half of all foods we eat and its production destroys rainforests and enslaves children
The production of this ingredient causes jaw-dropping amounts of deforestation (and with it, carbon emissions) ...
AlterNet

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12/10/2011 The Co-op claims lead on palm oil with new commitments
The Co-operative Group has claimed it is the largest UK supermarket to certify all of its palm oil as ...
The Grocer, UK

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06/10/2011 Barbie and Ken may rekindle love after Mattel pledges to tackle deforestation
Greenpeace welcomes toy makers' new goals to build a more sustainable supply chain. ...
Business Green

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05/10/2011 Mattel drops paper company linked to Indonesia deforestation
It's official: Barbie has broken up with Asia Pulp and Paper.

Responding to a campaign by Greenpeace, ...
Los Angeles Times

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12/09/2011 A huge oil palm plantation puts African rainforest at risk
As global agricultural companies turn to Africa, a U.S. firm is planning a massive oil palm plantation ...
Yale Environment 360

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22/08/2011 Cottonsoft hits back at 'outrageous' toilet paper claims
Toilet paper maker Cottonsoft has slammed as "wrong and outrageous" claims that its paper comes ...
The New Zealand Herald

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21/08/2011 APP affiliate 'regrets' astroturfing on Indonesia deforestation claims
Solaris, an Australian affiliate of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), has been caught astroturfing an article ...
Mongabay.com

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14/08/2011 WWF to investigate program that partners with notorious loggers
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has announced an independent review of its Global Forest and Trade ...
Mongabay.com

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03/08/2011 Guitar makers to run out of wood in 10 years
Gibson boss says over-harvesting and rainforest destruction means all manufacturers are running out of ...
Rock News Desk

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26/07/2011 WWF response to Global Witness report
In response Global Witness’ report Pandering to the Loggers released on Monday 25 July, WWF issues ...
WWF

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25/07/2011 WWF partnering with companies that destroy rainforests, threaten endangered species
Arguably the globe's most well-known conservation organization, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), ...
Mongabay.com

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15/07/2011 Lego drops deforestation after Greenpeace pressure
Lego has agreed to cut relations with supplier Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in favor of packaging material ...
Earth911.com

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13/07/2011 Cargill sets sights on worldwide sustainable palm oil by 2020
Agribusiness giant Cargill plans to only offer palm oil - an ingredient in Girl Scout cookies and numerous ...
GreenBiz

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12/07/2011 2 Mich. Girl Scouts seek palm oil ban in cookies
Two Michigan Girl Scouts concerned about deforestation’s effect on orangutans have launched a campaign ...
Chicago Sun Times, US

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09/07/2011 KFC, Taco Bell, and the destruction of the rain forests
YUM! Brands, which operates 38,000 fast food restaurants in 110 countries (including not only KFC but ...
Blast Magazine

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07/07/2011 Lego banishes Asia Pulp & Paper due to deforestation link
In response to a campaign by Greenpeace asserting that packaging used for its iconic toy building blocks ...
Mongabay.com

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05/07/2011 Kimberly-Clark & WWF reach agreement on ethical paper sourcing
Last week WWF and Kimberly-Clark (the maker of Kleenex tissues, Huggies diapers, and VIVA paper towels), ...
Triple Pundit

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27/06/2011 Green tigers: new research shows protecting forests will deliver new economic boom for Southeast Asia
A raft of new studies show that protecting Southeast Asia's forests could provide an enormous economic ...
Mongabay.com

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07/06/2011 Barbie, Legos, other toys linked to destruction of Indonesia's rainforests
Some of the world's largest and most prominent toy-makers are sourcing their packaging materials ...
Mongabay.com

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31/05/2011 Biofuels boom in Africa as British firms lead rush on land for plantations
Controversial fuel crops linked to rising food prices and hunger, as well as increased greenhouse gas ...
Guardian, UK

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24/05/2011 SC Johnson to use only sustainable palm oil by 2015
SC Johnson, the maker of Glade, Windex and Ziploc, announced today that it will buy only sustainable ...
Environmental Leader

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19/05/2011 Special report: How a $115b illegal logging probe was felled
As a forestry expert, Bambang Hero Saharjo has tramped through jungles during his entire career, but ...
The Jakarta Globe

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16/05/2011 Will Indonesia lose the next oil palm?
Deep in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo in the late 1980s, researchers made an incredible discovery: ...
The Jakarta Post

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06/05/2011 Kenya turns sugarcane waste into paper to preserve forests
Nairobi - Kenyan companies are starting to produce paper from sugarcane waste in a move environmentalists ...
Reuters AlertNet

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04/05/2011 What's the Standard on Standards?
The fight between two forest products certification programs illustrates competing views of CSR. ...
CSRWire

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28/04/2011 Brazil: JBS strikes deal over slavery, deforestation lawsuit
JBS has struck a deal that will see allegations that the meat giant bought beef from farms that contributed ...
just-food

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14/04/2011 Moves to stop Indonesian illegal timber imports supported
A group of timber importers have pledged to stop buying any wood from Indonesia unless it is legally ...
The National Business Review, New Zealand

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11/04/2011 Britain's taste for cheap food that's killing Brazil's 'other wilderness'
While rainforest destruction grips our attention, one of the world's great habitats is under threat. ...
The Independent, UK

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07/04/2011 Real sustainability isn’t a coin-toss
We must preserve the rainforest and support economic opportunity for the world’s poor. It’s ...
Environmental Leader

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28/03/2011 "Greener" corporate accounts urged to aid nature
Companies should do more to report their impact on nature to help curb damage that drains trillions of ...
Reuters

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25/03/2011 German bank dumps palm oil company stock
DWS, a fund management company run by Deutsche Bank, has dropped all Wilmar International stock from ...
Mongabay.com

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24/03/2011 Pro-deforestation group criticizes palm oil giant for sustainability pact
World Growth International, a group that advocates on behalf of industrial forestry interests, has criticized ...
Mongabay.com

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18/03/2011 Dancing with devils
St Patrick's Day 2010 I received an excited Skype message from a friend of dark green political ...
The Huffington Post, US

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11/03/2011 7 ways to help stop tropical deforestion & illegal logging
A store like Walmart can wield more power than a country over a logging company - especially in the global ...
The Ecologist, UK

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23/02/2011 Greenpeace hits back at 'notorious forest destroyer' Asia Pulp and Paper
Campaigners urge retailers to follow example of Tesco and Adidas in cutting links with the controversial ...
The Ecologist, UK

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16/02/2011 Chevron's dirty fight in Ecuador
The giant oil corporation has been fined $8.6bn for an environmental disaster that has been called 'the ...
The Independent, UK

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31/01/2011 Asia Pulp and Paper: why activists are wrong over destructive logging allegations
The paper giant has been accused by Greenpeace of destructive logging and green-washing. But campaigners ...
The Ecologist, UK

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27/01/2011 Nike and Kimberly-Clark lead the corporate pack on forest sustainability
Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD), which asks international companies to reveal their impact on forests ...
Mongabay.com

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13/01/2011 Does chopping down rainforests for pulp and paper help alleviate poverty in Indonesia?
Over the past several years, Asia Pulp & Paper has engaged in a marketing campaign to represent its ...
Mongabay.com

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12/01/2011 Businesses turn towards conservation to improve revenues, reputations
Jakarta - Some unlikely businesses have emerged to lead the way on conservation, and the trend appears ...
Eco-business.com

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10/01/2011 Business key to saving Indonesia’s forests, says Al Gore
Jakarta - Former US vice president and environmental campaigner Al Gore kicked off the International ...
Eco-business.com

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23/12/2010 WWF position on APRIL
In April 2010, Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood Program suspended APRIL’s interim FSC Controlled ...
WWF

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PRESENTATIONS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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06/07/2012 Nestlé Case Study – A journey to zero deforestation Wouter van Tol, Nestle UK & Ireland

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21/06/2011 Private sector engagement on deforestation risk management Katie McCoy, Forest Footprint Disclosure

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27/01/2011 Role of the shipping sector Cecilia Müller, Maersk

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EVENTS

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DATE TITLE
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Thursday 12th May 2011 Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability 2011
The 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference will provide a full update on – ...

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Wednesday 12th January 2011 International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Peoples and Forests
The purpose of the meeting was to:

* analyse enshrined rights of indigenous peoples within international ...

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