Posts Tagged ‘deforestation’
By NunoXEI • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Just a few short weeks after Greenpeace released Slaughtering the Amazon, Nike has announced new standards for keeping leather made from Amazon destruction out of its shoes. Nike now wants to work towards a new leather sourcing policy that doesn’t contribute to the destruction of the Amazon or climate change. They’ll be adhering to the new [...]
By NunoXEI • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Treehugger–No Free Refills has been launched to highlight the fast-food industry’s major role in the deforestation of the Southern forests of the US. Their website states that: “Packaging symbolizes the disposable society we have become. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the fast food industry.”
By NunoXEI • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN-More of the Amazon rain forest should be cut down to make way for farmland to help ease the global food crisis, the governor of a big Brazilian farming state was quoted as saying.
By NunoXEI • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
The Brazilian environmental agency seems to have finally woken up to the problem of illegally logged Amazonian timber leaving their shores. Last week, inspectors from IBAMA (the agency with responsibility for regulating the timber industry), carried out an impromptu check of timber cargo ships at the Brazilian Port of Santarem.
Worryingly, Brazilian customs had already given [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Financial incentives for cutting carbon emissions could earn developing countries up to US$13 billion in carbon credits per year — but there are several issues for policymakers to tackle first, says a new study.
The study, published in the latest issue Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, analyses the best ways to reward developing countries [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon may be on the rise, according to high-resolution images released by an agency of the Brazilian government. The images suggest an end to a widely hailed three-year decline in the rate of deforestation and have spurred a public controversy among high-level Brazilian officials, writes Tim Hirsch, author of “The Incredible [...]
