(Deutsch) Indonesien als Lieferant für Nickel – Fakten und Hintergründe zu Menschenrechts- und Umweltauswirkungen (Factsheet)
European Union and French Presidency seek to push forward with destructive and unsustainable biofuel target
02 December 2008
Press release from Biofuel Watch, Corporate Europe Observatory, Econexus, Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Rettet den Regenwald and Watch Indonesia!
Campaigners today (Tuesday) accused the French Presidency and the European Union of pushing ahead with dangerous and unsustainable agrofuel targets, with a view to reaching a deal on the Renewable Energy Directive on Wednesday. The target as proposed (1) would greatly increase the use of agrofuels (biofuels from crops and trees) in Europe, with no credible protection ... read more
Posted in Agro Fuels, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Publications, Environment & Climate
Governments of eight producer countries state that sustainability of agrofuels cannot be guaranteed
01 December 2008
Open Letter to MEPs:
Since EU target is conditional on sustainability, EU should drop the target
On 6th November, the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malawi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone wrote an Open Letter to The Council, Parliament and Commission of the European Communities, in which they made it clear that they strongly object to proposed sustainability standards for agrofuels. Those eight countries are amongst the main countries from which the EU is likely ... read more
Posted in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
(Deutsch) Suuuuuuuupppppper Spiel: Bürgerkrieg in Indonesien
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German version
Posted in "In the Spotlight", Indonesia, Publications
(Deutsch) Biodiesel aus Palmöl und nachhaltige Produktion in Indonesien – Ein Widerspruch in sich?
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German version
Posted in Agro Fuels, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
(Deutsch) Benbi – Berliner Entwicklungspolitisches Bildungsprogramm 2008
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German version
Posted in Activities, Indonesia, Environment & Climate
(Bahasa Indonesia) Dari Isu Utama Buruh ke Isu Demokrasi dan HAM
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Indonesian version
Posted in democracy, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
International Declaration Against the ‘Greenwashing’ of Palm Oil by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
In defence of Human Rights, Food Sovereignty, Biodiversity and Climate Justice
Ironically, on 16 October 2008, World Food and Food Sovereignty Day, a meeting will start in Cartagena (Colombia) to promote monoculture oil palm plantations, that are precisely the cause of so many violations of the Right to Food and contrary to food sovereignty insofar as they undermine the peoples’ right to produce their own food according to their territorial conditions and their food culture.
The First ... read more
Posted in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Final Moratorium Call on Promotion of Agrofuels
2nd October 2008
To: Coreper, the Council of Ministers, the European Commission, Claude Turmes (MEP) CC: ITRE and ENVI
Re: EU agrofuel targets
Dear Madam, Sir, In light of the upcoming negotiations between the Council, the European Commission and Claude Turmes (MEP) on the Renewable Energy Directive, the undersigned organisations are calling on you once again, with the utmost urgency, to drop all agrofuel targets and to install a moratorium on the promotion of agrofuels and agro-energy. Despite overwhelming evidence of numerous ... read more
Posted in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Agrofuels and the Myth of the Marginal Lands
September 2008
A briefing by The Gaia Foundation, Biofuelwatch, the African Biodiversity Network, Salva La Selva, Watch Indonesia! and EcoNexus
MARGINAL, IDLE, DEGRADED, UNDER–UTLISED, SLEEPING, WASTELANDS AND ABANDONED CROPLANDS: all of these are different terms for what is being promoted as the „solution” to the impacts of growing crops for agrofuels. Partly in order to respond to accusations that agrofuels (also known as biofuels) compete with food production, some policy makers have proposed that agrofuel crops should be planted on ... read more
Posted in Agro Fuels, joint position papers, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Publications, Environment & Climate
(Deutsch) Verpasste Chancen, unerfüllte Versprechen
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Indonesian and German version
Posted in joint studies and reports, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Transitional Justice
