Following the adoption of the Dubai Pathway on HFCs, Parties to the Montreal Protocol are set to negotiate and adopt an HFC amendment in 2016, the first major test of the Paris Climate Agreement and global commitment to “pursue efforts to limit the [average global] temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius.” The level of climate […]
By Christina Starr, Climate Policy Analyst American consumers looking to make sustainable choices with their grocery shopping dollars may want to consider a new commitment by Target to climate-friendly refrigeration using propane. The past several years have marked the beginning of a tidal wave of change for grocery retailers around the world seeking to replace […]
Updated July 13, 2016 News broke recently in the Jakarta Post that two Peruvian oil palm plantations located in Peru’s Amazon region of Ucayali, Plantaciones de Pucallpa and Plantaciones de Ucayali, plan to sell land they control in the Peruvian Amazon through a trust services company, La Fiduciaria S.A., despite ongoing prosecutions against these companies […]
WASHINGTON, D.C./LIMA – Maps published today confirm that land transferred by two oil palm plantations to a Peruvian trust services company, which is now auctioning off these properties, is located in illegally deforested Amazon rainforest. EIA mapped the properties transferred to the trust to show the scale, location, and corporate connections of the clear-cut Amazon […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) today announced that the FSC chain of custody (CoC) certificate issued to Austrian-based timber company Holzindustrie Schweighofer (Schweighofer) has been suspended. This action by Quality Austria, the certifying body that had granted Schweighofer’s FSC CoC certificate, means Schweighofer can no longer market its wood products with the […]
ワシントンD.C. – 日本の大手商社がヨーロッパに残る最後の広大な原生林での違法伐採に拍車をかけていることがワシントンD.C.を本拠地とする環境調査エージェンシー（EIA）の新しい報告書で明らかになった。「偽上の住宅：日本の新築住宅の犠牲になる欧州の原生林／Built on Lies: New Homes in Japan Destroy Old Forests in Europe」と題する報告書では、オーストリア企業シュバイクホファー社（Holzindustrie [...]