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Sime Darby must match New Britain Palm Oil’s Progress
The completed purchase of New Britain Palm Oil Ltd puts buyer Sime Darby Plantations on the spot: will it match NBPOL’s responsible palm oil practices on the ground, in particular by adopting a comprehensive forest conservation policy across its entire supply chain?
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Playing with fire: Why I want to stop the haze
So what does haze feel like in Singapore?
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Steering Group established to oversee the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach for implementing ‘No Deforestation’ commitments
A group of leading plantation companies with commitments to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains, NGOs and technical support organisations met on 25th and 26th August in Singapore to establish a governance and standardisation body for the methodology, known as the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach, to be used to implement these commitments.
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Energy and water security for a robust, green economy
This year’s World Water Day theme addresses the critical dependencies between water and energy usage, also known as the “water-energy nexus.”
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In South Thailand: No fish, no future
Climate change and destructive fishing methods harm the ecosystem and the lives of fishermen.
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Point of No Return
The world is quickly reaching a point of no return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change.
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Tracking down Pablo
Dryness. Devastation. Desperation. These were the words that came into my mind as I travelled east of Davao City, to bear witness to the full impact of Typhoon Pablo’s fury (international name Bopha) in Southern Mindanao.
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Greenpeace welcomes Golden Agri-Resources progress towards a ‘no deforestation footprint’ for palm oil
Greenpeace Indonesia welcomed the release today of a report from palm oil producer Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) identifying which forests should be protected as an important step forward in the fight against deforestation.
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Welcome to climate change in Thailand!
Welcome to Thailand, for yet another round of Climate change negotiations at the UN climate change conference to be held in Bangkok between April 3-8, 2011.