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Pavan Sukhdev: you can have progress without GDP-led growth
Tom Levitt
22nd January, 2010
Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it more...Greenwash award exposes Brazilian company
Ecologist
21st January, 2010
Brazilian cattle-ranching company named and shamed for destroying the land of an uncontacted tribe more...Biodiversity crucial to lives of billions, says UNEP
Ecologist
12th January, 2010
Ecosystems are buffering humanity against the worst impacts of global warming and also alleviating poverty, says United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) more...Atlantic Rising: Liberia faces choice between deforestation and REDD
Tim Bromfield
11th January, 2010
If alternatives to deforestation like REDD do not arrive soon Liberia's remaining rainforest cover is likely to go the same way as its neighbours in Cote d'Ivoire more...CASE STUDY: Keeping tourism in balance with nature
Eifion Rees
5th January, 2010
Irshad Mobarak, a self-taught naturalist and environmentalist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi says that development need not mean destruction more...A proposal to save the world’s tropical rain forests
Edward Goldsmith
January, 1980
Thirty years ago this month, Edward Goldsmith published a revised version of WEAP, the World Ecological Areas Programme in the Ecologist more...Monsanto named worst corporate climate lobbyist
Ecologist
15th December, 2009
US company wants its GM crops to be given carbon credits and to be at the forefront of tackling climate change despite link to deforestation more...Obama sings its praises, but what is the Amazon Fund?
Ecologist
14th December, 2009
Partnership between Brazil and Norway to prevent deforestation in the Amazon praised by US President Barack Obama more...Protecting forests AND the rights of forest peoples
Laura Sevier
8th December, 2009
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that more...Will sugar be the oil of the 21st century?
Matilda Lee
1st December, 2009
You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact? more...Deforestation in central London
Laura Sevier
17th November
An installation featuring giant tropical tree stumps in Trafalgar square is designed to symbolise threatened rainforest trees throughout the world more...The Prince's Rainforests Project: keeping forests standing
Emma Bocking
9th November, 2009
It's the best hope for creating a critical mass of support for tough action on tropical deforestation, and its website offers a wealth of information for all more...
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Clamping down on logging in Brazil moves it to Paraguay
Ecologist
20th November, 2009
Former Paraguayan government minister makes plea for West to intervene in runaway illegal logging situation displaced from Brazil more...All carbon is not born equal
Eric Marx
17th November, 2009
Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle deforestation assumes that a tonne of tree carbon is the same as a tonne of fossil carbon? more...Palm oil firms letting four-year-olds sign contracts
Ecologist
11th November, 2009
'Chaotic' legislation in Indonesia is allowing palm oil plantation companies looking to produce biofuel to bully local people off their land more...Brazil pledges emission cuts in 'political gesture' to rich nations
Tom Phillips from the Guardian
10th November, 2009
Brazil will take proposals for voluntary reductions of 38-42 per cent by 2020 to the Copenhagen climate change conference next month, chief of staff says more...Enshrining legal rights for the planet
Polly Higgins
10th December, 2008
Just as the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War gave birth to the swift implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago in 1948, we now have a planetary crisis that needs to be addressed with equal urgency. Now is the time to call for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights. more...Replanting the Caledonian Forest
Eifion Rees
10th November, 2009
Armed with a spade, work gloves, wellies and waterproofs you can help the Trees for Life project to restore an old growth forest to its ancient glorymore...
If You Love This Planet: A Plan To Save The Earth
Henry Unwin
2nd November
Helen Caldicott outlines the most pressing issues in the world today and provides a basic framework for solutions more...'Do you want to die?': environmental activists at risk
Tom Levitt
26th October, 2009
Recent abductions and threats against activists trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence against those exposing environmental issues more...UK to give £50m to forest protection fund
Ecologist
21st October, 2009
Government says funding will support pilot projects to help determine longer term support to fight deforestation more...Conmen are already selling dodgy forest carbon
Dan Box
16th October, 2009
Fancy some forest carbon, guv'nor? Only one careful owner... Dan Box explains why a cautious approach to deforestation schemes would be wise more...FSC targeted in New York City protest
Ecologist
25th September, 2009
World's leading forest certification scheme is not doing enough to prevent the sourcing of unsustainable wood, say activists more...Q & A: Daniel Beltrá, environmental photographer
Laura Sevier
14th September, 2009
The award winning environmental photographer on witnessing rainforests around the world, working for Greenpeace and why photos can help save the world more...Massive subsidies for biofuels 'disastrous'
Ecologist
17th August, 2009
Small-scale biofuels would reduce carbon emissions and help avert poverty in poorer countries, says Christian Aid reportmore...