Biased Studies on Deforestation and Indirect Land Use Effect of Oil Palm
There have been many attempts by the Western Environmental NGO (WENGOs) to undertake studies to demonstrate the impact of deforestation on climate change or biodiversity losses. Often universities are involved to conduct the studies in the hope that the final reports issued will be credible. However, not all these studies will be...
How WENGOs Can Contribute to a Better World?
WENGOs can re-align their campaigns by focusing on what developed countries could do in order to make a more meaningful contribution to their objective of reducing global CO2 emission and not just focus on stifling the growth of agricultural commodities of developing countries such as palm oil which will harm the income potential of...
The Blame Game on Carbon Emission, Sustainability & Rainforest Conservation
The proposed Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December 2009 has generated intense interests from the EU and USA to advance their initiatives on reducing carbon emission to fight global warming and climate change. The EU in playing host are expected to aim for a successful adoption of an international emission mitigation agreement....
