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Palm plantations shaken by the green body they helped create
2016-06-07 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: In 2004, Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Group became a founding member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and later an executive board member in what seemed like a cosy arrangement. Twelve years later, IOI attempted to take legal action against RSPO over an environmental ruling that has cost the company sales in the United States and Europe. In March, the RSPO withdrew its "sustainability certification" from IOI, based on a decision to uphold a complaint from Amsterdam-based...
Asia Pulp & Paper Commits To The First-Ever Retirement Of Commercial Plantations On Tropical Peatland To Cut Carbon Emissions
2015-08-17 03:24:45| pollutiononline News Articles
Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) recently announced it is committing to retire around 7,000 hectares of commercial plantation areas to protect threatened carbon-rich peatlands, the first time that plantations on tropical peatland have been retired for conservation purposes worldwide
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Asia Pulp & Paper Commits To The First-Ever Retirement Of Commercial Plantations On Tropical Peatland To Cut Carbon Emissions
2015-08-17 03:24:45| pulpandpaperonline News Articles
Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) recently announced it is committing to retire around 7,000 hectares of commercial plantation areas to protect threatened carbon-rich peatlands, the first time that plantations on tropical peatland have been retired for conservation purposes worldwide
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Tropical peatland carbon losses from oil palm plantations may be underestimated
2015-07-10 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Draining tropical peatlands for oil palm plantations may result in nearly twice as much carbon loss as official estimates, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment and the Union of Concerned Scientists in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Peatlands -- waterlogged, organic soils -- have developed over thousands of years as carbon storage systems. In Southeast Asia, peat swamp forests cover about 250,000 square kilometers, a land...
Palm oil plantations used to 'reforest' parts of Brazil despite being wildlife deserts
2015-06-30 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It may not surprise you to hear that monocultures of oil palm (tree species of the Elaeis genus) do not support a great diversity of species in comparison to primary forests. But just how bad is it? A recent study systematically documented bird biodiversity within oil palm plantations, finding they contain fewer species than secondary forest and even cattle pasture. As oil palm grows as a commodity in Brazil and can legally even be used to "reforest" land how can a country that has made big gains...