Topic: Indonesia

Late last year Indonesia made global headlines with a bold pledge to reduce deforestation, which claimed nearly 28 million hectares (108,000 square miles) of forest between 1990 and 2005 and is the source of about 80 percent of the country's greenhouse gas ...

Here is a paradox for those trying to save the rainforests. More deforestation In the past two weeks, climate negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany, have been trying to thrash out rules for REDD, a way of paying developing countries to cut deforestation ...

Greenpeace on Thursday said a promised moratorium on deforestation would have little impact on Indonesia's huge carbon footprint unless it is extended to existing concessions.The environmental group also urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to begin the moratorium immediately instead of next year ...

As forests in tropical nations are cleared to make way for large-scale agricultural plots, U.S. farmers may be taking a hit to their wallets.. Staving off this rainforest destruction -- and subsequent revival of forestlands -- through conservation efforts like the United ...

International meeting to enact deforestation measures opens in OsloLast December, an international conference on climate change approved global plans prevent deforestation. But those plans have not been implemented, and now a smaller meeting of nations in Oslo will try Thursday to find ...

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday he would introduce a two-year moratorium on deforestation, a large source of income for his country which also contributes heavily to global warming."We will ... conduct a moratorium for two years where we stop the ...

Indonesia's anti-graft commission is investigating rampant corruption in the forestry sector that has cost the state more than 100 billion dollars, an official said Thursday.Corruption Eradication Commission deputy chairman Mohammad Jasin said investigators had found "indications of violations" of forestry rules by ...

Anglo-Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever said Wednesday it would continue to get 65 percent of its total palm oil purchases from Indonesia, despite concerns about deforestation by the industry.The comment came after Unilever suspended future purchases from palm oil giant Sinar ...

Anglo-Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever said Wednesday it would continue to get 65 percent of its total palm oil purchases from Indonesia, despite concerns about deforestation by the industry.The comment came after Unilever suspended future purchases from palm oil giant Sinar ...

Dayak tribesman Hanye Jaang didn't know it, but he used to be part of a multi-billion-dollar "mafia" that is ravaging Indonesia's forests and, scientists say, warming the climate.The wiry 36-year-old still cuts down trees but now he's doing it legally in a ...