Showing posts with label governance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label governance. Show all posts
24 March 2012
21 March 2012
No, a nation’s geography is not its destiny
If you start in the city center of Nogales, Santa Cruz [Arizona] and walk south for a while, at some point you see houses become much more run down, streets turn decrepit. You have crossed the Mexican border into Nogales, Sonora. Though the two cities are made of the same cloth and were once united, now there are sharp differences between the two
By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | Reuters | March 19, 2012
20 March 2012
Why Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry is reluctant to investigate APP’s illegal logging of ramin trees
When Greenpeace told the Ministry of Forestry that it had found evidence that Asia Pulp and Paper was illegally logging ramin trees, the Ministry’s response less than enthusiastic. More than two weeks later, the Ministry told Greenpeace that it “intends” to visit APP’s pulp mill. Meanwhile APP has been busy removing the evidence from its timber yards
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 20th March 2012
PHOTO Credit: Greenpeace
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Ministry of Forestry signed off on clearing of forest with protected species in Indonesia
Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry signed off on a plan by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) suppliers to log areas of forest that contained protected ramin species, according to documents released by Greenomics-Indonesia, an activist group
mongabay.com | March 15, 2012
Active clearance of peat swamp forest by APP pulpwood supplier PT Mutiara Sabuk Khatulistiwa. Photo © Greenpeace.
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13 March 2012
The Shadow Government
Through a network of unbalanced, almost-invisible committees, the government gets what it wants
By George Monbiot | the Guardian 13th March 2012 in Monbiot.com | March 12, 2012
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Industries of Democracy and Bureaucracy Get the Remote Region in Indonesia
There is no word other than "amazed" to describe how industrial democracy and industrial bureaucracy penetrate remote areas of Indonesia
Arief Wicaksono | BoilingSpot | 10 March 2012
07 March 2012
Getting planning right
We need a planning policy that reflects the competing interests of the economy, the environment and communities
By Telegraph View | The Telegraph | 06 Mar 2012
Green and, for now, pleasant: to regard the planning system as an arm of economic policy is deeply flawed Photo: ALAMY
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29 February 2012
World Bank’s FCPF fails to consult with Indigenous Peoples in Honduras
The Indigenous Peoples Confederation of Honduras (CONPAH) recently wrote a letter to the State Secretary of Natural Resources and Environment, Doctor Rigoberto Cuéllar Cruz, about the lack of consultation relating to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility in Honduras
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 29th February 2012
Read more... Sphere: Related ContentPossible embezzlement halts WWF-run REDD project in Tanzania
Two conservation and community projects in Tanzania have been halted after the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reported possible corruption
Jeremy Hance | mongabay.com | February 29, 2012
Forest in Tanzania. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
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26 February 2012
Discriminatory Forestry Regulations and REDD projects in Indonesia
Earlier this month, a group of Indonesian and international organisations wrote to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination about the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) project in Papua
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 24th February 2012
22 February 2012
Venezuela: The spectre of Big Oil
“Never again will they rob us — the ExxonMobil bandits. They are imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion of Iraq.”"Never again will they rob us — the ExxonMobil bandits. They are imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion of Iraq"
By Paul Kellog | Green Left Weekly | February 29, 2008
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Global Fund Fights AIDS, TB and Malaria
The long-awaited shake-up in the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Fund) finally became operational this month with the assumption of office of Gabriel Jaramillo, a former leading banker, as the new general manager. The change followed various unflattering audit reports of the Fund operations in some recipient countries that suggested money lost to corrupt practices and lax oversight
Chinua Akukwe | World Press | February 6, 2012
A pregnant Sudanese woman being treated for Malaria in a health center in Nyala. (Photo: Raul Touzon, National Geographic Society, Corbis)
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11 February 2012
Making the Forest Sector Transparent
Since October 2008, Global Witness has been working on a project called “Making the Forest Sector Transparent“. The project has recently released its 2011 Annual Transparency Report, looking at the transparency record in seven countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 10th February 2012
08 February 2012
CIFOR, UNODC Examine Measures to Control Illegal Logging in Indonesia
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have released a working paper titled "Lessons for REDD+ from Measures to Control Illegal Logging in Indonesia," which examines the illegal logging context, including drivers, government regulations and moratoria, plantation development, certification options, and forest law enforcement and governance in Indonesia
Climate Change Policy & Practice | January 2012
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Indonesia to require loggers prove their concessions free of overlapping claims
Applicants for forest concessions in Indonesia will soon be required to prove there aren't overlapping claims on their holdings, reports The Jakarta Globe
mongabay.com | February 02, 2012
13 January 2012
World’s largest investors issue guidelines for company action on climate change
The world’s largest investors have issued a document detailing their expectations of how companies should approach responding to climate change
Institutional Asset Manager | 12/01/2012
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Energy Resources China plans tax on carbon emissions
China, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, plans a tax on carbon emissions
UPI.com | Jan. 9, 2012
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Co-operative renewable energy in the UK: a guide to this growing sector (report)
Co-operatively-owned energy generation is a vibrant and growing sector in the UK. The first co‑operatively-owned wind turbines, Baywind in Cumbria, started turning in 1997. Since then, over 7,000 individual investors have ploughed over £16 million into community-owned renewable energy
by Rebecca Willis and Jenny Willis | Jan 5 2012 by Cooperatives UK in Energy Bulletin | Jan 5, 2012
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Saving Amazonia: Winning the war on deforestation
For years, the story told about the Amazon has been one of destruction - the world's largest rainforest, a region of amazing biodiversity, key to the fight against climate change, being remorselessly felled. But that is no longer the whole truth
By Justin Rowlatt | BBC News | 2 January 2012
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01 January 2012
Fighting for a Less Corrupt New Year
After failing to muster support in parliament for the passage of a watered- down anti-corruption bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must find ways to satisfy opposition parties, allies and civil society that his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is serious about curbing graft in the New Year
By Ranjit Devraj | Inter-Press Service | Jan 1, 2012
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