Sentences with phrase «indonesian oil palm plantations»

Combining a new database of Indonesian oil palm plantations with satellite imagery of deforestation, the investigators measured the amount of natural forest that was cleared in each of those plantations between 2000 and 2015.

«However, because palm oil companies have chosen initially to certify well - established plantations containing relatively few remaining forests, certification currently benefits less than 1 percent of the forests remaining in Indonesian oil palm plantations.»

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Amnesty International has uncovered «systemic» cases of child labour and labour rights abuses in Indonesian palm oil plantations operated by Wilmar, tracing the palm oil back to firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Kellogg — companies that all claim to...

For the study, researchers surveyed palm plantations, nurseries, forests and cleared land in Sumatra, the Indonesian island where tropical forests have been replaced by palm oil plantations, resulting in significant species declines.

Clearing Indonesian rainforests to grow Palm oil plantations to make something that is not even necessary?

Meanwhile Indonesian plutocrats drool over Chinese biodiesel markets to be supplied from their palm oil plantations.

(04/28/2014) An Indonesian has won the world's most prestigious award for environmental activism for his efforts to fight illegal logging, forest encroachment for palm oil production, and a policy that would open up vast swathes of an endangered ecosystem for mining and industrial plantations.

See the Amazon, the US Northwest, Scottish grouse moors, illegal logging in the Congo, Indonesian palm oil plantations, etc..

At a 7 percent tax rate for carbon, the present value of tax revenue for the Indonesian government ranges from $ 476,000 to $ 752,000, whereas the oil palm plantation generates $ 495,000.

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations (known as sawit kelapa in Indonesia), providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

Meanwhile, their habitat continues to vanish as oil palm plantations metastasize across the Indonesian and Malaysian landscapes.

(11/08/2007) Officials from the Indonesian ministry of agriculture and the palm oil industry are distributing materials that misrepresent the carbon balance oil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commisspalm oil industry are distributing materials that misrepresent the carbon balance oil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commissioil industry are distributing materials that misrepresent the carbon balance oil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commissioil palm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil Commisspalm plantations, according to accounts from people who have seen presentations by members of the Indonesian Palm Oil CommissPalm Oil CommissiOil Commission.

But a study published today in the National Academy of Sciences, found that half of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo were established on peat lands.

In a July 29th editorial we argued that in some cases, preserving ecosystems for carbon credits could be more valuable than conversion for oil palm plantations, providing higher tax revenue for the Indonesian treasury while at the same time offering attractive economic returns for investors.

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Global demand is so high (and expected to double by 2020), and the Indonesian government eagerly hands out subsidies to growers, that further burning of the land to clear the rainforest for palm oil plantations is inevitable.

Though Indonesia and Malaysia seem hell bent on chopping down their rainforests and replacing them with palm oil plantations, a new study in the journal Conservation Letters shows that selling carbon credits from the intact forests could be just as profitable as converting them to agriculture, and go a long way towards preserving biodiversity (not to mention stopping the orangutan from going extinct): In the article, report lead author Oscar Venter of the University of Queensland says that oil palm plantations currently threaten some 3.3 million hectares of forest in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of the island or Borneo).

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(04/27/2012) Developers in Indonesian Borneo are increasingly converting carbon - dense peatlands for oil palm plantations, driving deforestation and boosting greenhouse gas emissions, reports a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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