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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Foreign nations share the blame for the destruction of Indonesian forests and should pitch in to help restore them, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Friday.
Indonesia, host of a U.N. climate change conference in December, [...]

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European Cities Pledge to Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
VIENNA, Austria, May 9, 2006 (ENS) – An association of European cities linked in partnership with indigenous rainforest peoples has resolved to reduce their emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by 10 percent every five years as a long term strategy. By this means, they intend to [...]

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Developing nations may save the tropical forest.
New initiative is an alternative to destruction of their forests in order to develop economically
In an article this Friday (April 14) in the international magazine New Scientist, a leading rainforest biologist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama argues that a new initiative by developing nations offers great [...]

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Seven Brazilian Cities Pledge Not to Buy Illegally Logged Wood.
SAO PAULO, Brazil, November 16, 2005 (ENS) – The seven municipal administrations that constitute the Greater ABC region of metropolitan S?o Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, have signed a letter of commitment not to purchase illegally logged wood products. The ABC region is the country’s third largest [...]

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SitNews – US House Votes Spending Millions on Logging Roads Isn’t Good Investment.
Thursday the U.S. House agreed that spending taxpayer dollars on building logging roads on the Tongass National Forest is not a good investment. The amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill which calls for ending subsidies for logging roads was sponsored by Republican Representative [...]

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Banks Go for Green.
Time Magazine, 30 May 2005 – It’s every corporation’s nightmare: a throng of rowdy activists gathers outside company buildings to demonstrate against alleged environmental and human-rights abuses. That was the scene in New York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices [...]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Request for forest carbon credits.
Rainforest protection should be added to measures to prevent global warming, a seminar of climate experts from more than 150 countries has heard in Bonn.
The proposal, from Papua New Guinea, could open the way to a major expansion of the attempts to limit climate change.
ISLAND OF [...]

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JPMorgan Chase Joins Effort To Save Endangered Forests And Stop Global Warming.
JPMorgan Chase Joins Effort To Save Endangered Forests And Stop Global Warming
Author: Rainforest Action Network Published on Apr 26, 2005, 00:55 Rainforest Action Network today commended JPMorgan Chase on its adoption of a comprehensive environmental policy to address the challenges of global [...]

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