A warm thank you to Bu Meti and her team at Ekonomi Sumberdayaalam dan Lingkungan (ESL) at IPB University for the opportunity to give a guest lecture
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Month: April 2019
Certification VS Conservation in Natural Resource Management (Guest Lecture IPB University, ESL)
In late 1990, the Smartwood Programme (Smartwood) of the Rainforest Alliance was the first forestry certification initiative to award a certificate in
NYT | A Respite From Record Losses, but Tropical Forests Are Still in Trouble
“It seems that Indonesia’s forest policies are working,” said Mikaela Weisse, manager of the Global Forest Watch program. But the country will f
GWW | Deforestation Rate in The Netherlands is even higher than in Brazil
Trees must simply give way to that [the Natura 2000 Policy]. And that is final, because according to Natura 2000 the felled trees do not have to be co
LinkedIn | Europe vs The World, How I Learned to ❤ Palm Oil
In truth, all large-scale agriculture causes loss of natural habitats, whether it's rice, wheat, coffee, tea, strawberries, cacao or, yes, palm oil. T
Yale E360 | Why Green Pledges Will Not Create the Natural Forests We Need
Other non-Bonn commitments — for instance as part of Paris climate pledges — extend the total reforestation in tropical countries alone to 1.1 mil
Lessons Learned from Mandatory Certification (Tantangan dan Rekomendasi Langkah Bersama menuju Keberpihakan Uni Eropa terhadap ISPO)
Indonesia has ample experience with attempts to create synergy between various standards, with a very simple conclusion: standards are like water and
M | Illegal online sales driving mercury pollution crisis in Indonesia
In a study of one mining village on the island of Lombok, 94 percent of childbearing women had mercury levels in their bodies higher than the internat