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Palm oil: Cooking the Climate

International brands “cooking the climate” as world’s governments prepare to discuss future of the planet

08 November 2007

A month before the world’s governments gather in Bali to decide on the next phase of international measures to combat climate change, a Greenpeace investigation reveals how a handful of the world’s leading brands are complicit in destroying Indonesia’s peat swamp forests, a potential source of substantial additional emissions of greenhouse gases. Peatlands already account for 4 per cent of global emissions. (1)

Greenpeace blocks the destruction of Indonesian peatland forests to limit greenhouse gas emissions

29 October 2007

Greenpeace volunteers today halted the destruction of an area of peatland swamp forest held by the PT Duta Palma palm oil company in the Riau province of Sumatra, Indonesia. They are building five dams across three-metre deep canals used in logging and draining peatland for conversion into a commercial palm oil plantation which would breach Indonesian regulations for forest protection and release large quantities of greenhouse gases.

CO2 levels rising faster than predicted - Greenpeace response

23 October 2007

Responding to findings by the Global Carbon Project, published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” this week, that atmospheric CO2 levels have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000, Gavin Edwards, Head of Climate at Greenpeace International said: “Today’s extremely worrying findings add to the overwhelming scientific evidence of the intensity of the climate crisis. We have no more time to waste in tackling climate change.

Greenpeace launches Forest Defenders Camp in Indonesia

09 October 2007

Jakarta, 9 October 2007 - Greenpeace today opened the Forest Defenders Camp (FDC) in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of its international effort to protect the world's remaining forests and the global climate prior to the Kyoto protocol climate negotiations taking place in Bali in December.