Blogposts tagged 'Wwf'

Yet more proof that Asia Pulp and Paper's green claims don’t stack up

Posted by jamie - 16 February 2012 at 3:04pm - 0 Comments
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia by Sinar Mas supplier PT Arara Abadi
All rights reserved. Credit: Ulet Infansasti/Greenpeace
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia by Sinar Mas supplier PT Arara Abadi

Another blow has been delivered to the credibility of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), thanks to some excellent work by WWF. In a survey of the certification bodies that APP regularly references to prop up its flimsy claims of sustainability, none of them would support APP's assertions about its environmental performance.

Article tagged as: APP, asia pulp and paper, deforestation, eyes on the forest, forests, indonesia, PEFC, rainforests, SGS, WWF

APP pulps trees from its own tiger sanctuary. How dumb is that?

Posted by ianduff - 16 December 2011 at 4:04pm - 3 Comments
Forest and peatland clearance inside APP's Senepis tiger sanctuary
All rights reserved. Credit: Eyes on the Forest/WW Indonesia
This was APP's Senepis Tiger Sanctuary, until one of APP's suppliers cut down the trees

Asia Pulp and Paper – the company doing so much to jeopardise the future of Indonesia's rainforests – has done some pretty stupid things in the past. But pulping the trees in its own tiger sanctuary is astonishingly dumb.

And yet that's exactly what APP has done.

Article tagged as: APP, asia pulp and paper, conservation, deforestation, eyes on the forest, tigers, WWF

Live blog: The Future of European Fisheries event at ZSL

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 13 July 2011 at 6:04pm - 0 Comments
Fish in a net
All rights reserved. Credit: Alex Hofford / Greenpeace
Join us at 6pm today for a live blog from the Event - featuring Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and MP Richard Benyon

Live updates from the cross NGO event on the release of the EU's proposal for CFP reform.

Article tagged as: CFP, Client Earth, European Fisheries, Event, marine conservation society, NEF, Ocean 2012, oceans, Reform, RSPB, WWF, ZSL

Joint statement on coal and carbon capture and storage

Publication date:  22 August, 2008

The science of climate change is unequivocal – to avoid catastrophic impacts, industrialised countries like the UK must make steep and urgent reductions in their carbon dioxide emissions. This means that it is unacceptable to build new unabated coal-fired power stations in the UK.

This joint statement from Greenpeace,  WWF, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB calls on the government to:

Download the report:
Article tagged as: CCS, climate change, coal, friends of the earth, reports, RSPB, WWF

Amazon destruction endangering stability of the world's climate

Posted by saunvedan - 7 December 2007 at 5:50pm - 0 Comments

Huge swathes of the Amazon are being destroyed for soya planting

As delegates, scientists and environmentalists from nearly 190 countries continue to thrash out a new climate change agreement in Bali, a new WWF report warns that destruction of the Amazon rainforest has now reached an ecological tipping point.

Article tagged as: amazon, bali, climate change, co2 emissions, WWF

Melting ice threatens blue whales' food supply

Posted by bex - 20 July 2001 at 8:00am - 0 Comments
Whale tail

Whale tail

Melting polar ice is threatening the main food source for Antarctic blue whales and could lead to their extinction, an international environmental group said yesterday. The whales feed on small sea creatures known as krill, which in turn eat microscopic marine algae. These live in sea ice and are released in the summer when the ice melts.

Article tagged as: blue whales, climate change, conservation, impacts, krill, oceans, sea ice, WWF
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