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The Canberra Times, 13 December 2007
Seeing REDD to save the forests and the planet
Opinion: Sven Wunder & Frances Seymour
Global warming poses a significant threat to our future. That much is now widely accepted. Less certain is what we need to do to arrest the process. When the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change drew up the Kyoto... More »
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Jakarta Post, 04 December 2007
Reducing deforestation in RI
Opinion: Daniel Murdiyarso
Deforestation and land clearance in developing countries are responsible for annual carbon emissions measuring approximately 1,600 million tons. That's roughly a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, making... More »
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Sinar Harapan, 23 September 2007
Menyikapi Laporan IPCC dengan Bijak
Opinion: Daniel Murdiyarso
Baru-baru ini kita mendengar serangkaian peluncuran laporan Panel Antar-pemerintah tentang Perubahan Iklim (IPCC). Pertama dari Paris di bulan Februari 2007, kedua dari Brusel di bulan April, kemudian dari Bangkok bulan Mei yang... More »
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Jakarta Post, 29 July 2007
Science key to better environmental decision
Opinion: Douglas Sheil and Erik Meijaard
In the 1980s, over a million hectares of Central Kalimantan's peat forests was cleared and drained for growing rice. To the government, this was a battle against poverty and hunger. Environmental concerns were easily brushed... More »
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CGIAR News, 06 June 2007
Balancing Power
Opinion: Yulia Siagian and Heru Komarudin
Research shows that collective action can be effective locally, but questions remain about how best to devolve power to communities, by Yulia Siagian and Heru Komarudin More »
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Jakarta Post, 22 January 2007
Signs of growing justice in forest business
Opinion: Charlie Pye-Smith
No matter where you go in rural Indonesia, you will come across people who have fallen foul of the country's forest laws. Take what happened in West Lampung, Sumatra, in the mid-1990s. In Simpang Sari, the police pulled up the... More »
