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(Bahasa Indonesia) Bank Jerman Batal Danai Proyek MSM
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Indonesian versionPosted on 05:56 PM in Indonesia, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
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(Bahasa Indonesia) Bank Jerman Batal Danai Proyek MSM
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Indonesian versionPosted on 05:56 PM in Indonesia, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
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Forests in Papua: Data and Facts
26th January 2008
by Marianne Klute, Watch Indonesia!
Contribution to the Forest Conference of the West Papua Network in Witten
„The last frontier“ – that’s what the environmental organisation Telapak calls the forests of Papua. During the few decades, forests have been clearcut everywhere in Indonesia. Papua is the last region with surviving large continuous forests. In recent years, however, Papua has become a hotspot for the timber industry. The forest has been vanishing rapidly, and police measures against ... read more
Posted on 03:44 PM in Indonesia, Papua, Publications, Pulp & Paper, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch's Studies and Reports
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German Bank Pulls Out of Controversial Indonesian Gold Mine Scheme
18th January 2008
Urgewald + Watch Indonesia!, press note
The Indonesian province of North Sulawesi is a biodiversity hotspot and harbors some of the world’s most spectacular nature areas. Northern Sulawesi is also home to a series of gold deposits, the largest of which is known by the name of Toka Tindung. Plans to establish gold mining operations here have met with widespread resistance both from local inhabitants and the Provincial government, who fear that the mines would disrupt ... read more
Posted on 08:47 AM in Economy, Labor & Corruption, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Indonesia, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate
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(Deutsch) Im Namen der Profitgier
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German versionPosted on 08:01 PM in Agro Fuels, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
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Biofuels – A new threat to climate and climate justice
December 2007
“We have very serious concerns over nuclear energy, genetically modified trees, carbon capture and storage and biofuels for environmental and safety reasons. We consider that these are not ways out to combat global warming, but endangering environment and poor populations.”, Indonesian NGO Forum “The Earth will not give us the extra biomass needed to keep on existing as we do. For a while we might continue to rob this biomass from the poor tropics, but the results are already ... read more
Posted on 08:01 AM in Agro Fuels, joint position papers, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
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Bali Declaration: Protecting the world’s forests needs more than just money
10th December 2007
Governments meeting in Bali, Indonesia for the 13th Conference of the Parties/3rd Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 3-14 December 2007, need to recognise that this may be our last opportunity to stop runaway climate change and that with 18-20% of annual carbon emissions being caused by deforestation, protecting our forests is a key part of this. This problem is made even more important because forests are a key part ... read more
Posted on 03:36 PM in Agro Fuels, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
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(Deutsch) Blut für Öl
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German versionPosted on 02:19 PM in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
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(Bahasa Indonesia) Beda Negara Satu Masalah
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Biofuels, Climate Change and Climate Justice
5th December 2007
Joint press release by World Rainforest Movement, Watch Indonesia!, Walhi Jambi, Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Biofuelwatch and African Biodiversity Network
Six organisations from North and South will be presenting evidence about the catastrophic impact of large-scale biofuel production on the climate and ecosystems, communities and food sovereignty at a UNFCCC side event on 6th December.
Speakers from Indonesia, Argentina, Uruguay, Uganda, Germany and the UK will speak about „Biofuels, Climate Change and Climate Justice”. They will discuss the ... read more
Posted on 05:42 PM in Agro Fuels, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
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(Deutsch) Stimmen im Vorfeld der Klimakonferenz in Bali:
Recht auf Leben, Land und Nahrung
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German version
Posted on 02:53 PM in Agro Fuels, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media