Posts Tagged ‘deforestation’

Affraid of Chinese timber products

Posted in Business on January 19th, 2010 by iip – 23 Comments

ASEAN-China FTA becomes hot topic among business timber entities talks. More Indonesian businessman are worrying about Chinese products that will flood Indonesia‘s markets because of the agreement. Chinese products are known as cheaper, mimic and some of them are below-average quality.

The ASEAN-China FTA agreement was signed about ten years ago in Cambodia, enabling member countries to make necessary years of preparations. Why businessman still worrying on Chinese product?

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Road to Copenhagen: In search of certainty

Posted in Earth on October 15th, 2009 by iip – Be the first to comment

Reading a recent article of NY Times on global climate deal, I noted that more uncertainty is raising and shown by industrial countries.  It seems that they try to present good message to global society, and agree to do something for tackling global warming.

However, until now their messages are lack of delivering clear and detail action. Current barrier on global climate deal is recognized:

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Carbon emissions payment may not significantly reduce deforestation

Posted in Forest on October 8th, 2009 by iip – Be the first to comment

A latest scientific publication reveals that Indonesia’s first RED (reduced carbon emissions from deforestation) initiative in upland protected areas may not significantly reduce deforestation in Northen Sumatra and would have little impact on orangutan conservation. In fact, a large amount of of forest inside the project area is protected de facto by being inaccessible, while low land will remain exposed to the combined expansion of plantation and road networks.

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