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Legal Analysis bye Bernadinus Steny
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REDD+ Indonesia Website to be Launched in April
sumber : kompas.com 28 Maret 2011 A website of REDD+ Indonesia, will be officially launched in April 2011, according to the forestry ministry in a press statement. The forestry ministry in cooperation with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is currently developing the website on REDD+, forests and climate change in Indonesia, the statement Continue reading
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Safeguard Issues Shadow Forests Rescue Plan
By Matthew O.Berger (Washington) source : Inter Press Service 3 November 2010 As national policies are developed to implement REDD, the U.N. effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a key question has been how to ensure social and environmental standards are upheld in REDD projects, both at the national and Continue reading
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REDDplus Perlu Fokus pada Sisi Keadilan
sumber : Kompas.com 28 Februari 2011 Proyek pengurangan emisi karbon dari deforestasi dan degradasi hutan (REDD+) di Indonesia perlu fokus pada isu perbaikan birokrasi pemerintah, keadilan, serta kemanusian. Tanpa itu, kemiskinan masyarakat sekitar hutanlah yang akan lestari. Manajer Program Hutan dan Iklim Yayasan Pengembangan Hukum Lingkungan Indonesia (Indonesian Center for Environ- mental Law/ICEL) Giorgio Budi Continue reading
I believe we can’t keep fighting for collective action if we don’t start it ourselves. For me, fighting for a sustainable environment begins with something small: eating proportionately. I think about how, throughout human history, the stomach has often been the beginning of all greed. How can we truly talk about controlling global consumption if we can’t even control our own desire to eat everything?
That’s why I’m committing to practicing autophagy daily, limiting my consumption of imported foods, and prioritizing buying local food directly from farmers.