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The report "Green Carbon, Black Trade" released by UNEP and INTERPOL on 27 September 2012 reveals that contrary to recent beliefs, the international illegal timber trade persists unabated at an annual value of 30 billion USD or more; the global timber scam has just taken on new forms as illegal logging syndicates employ increasingly sophisticated methods of log laundering and tax fraud....  

Companies facing new legal requirements as the EU Timber Regulation comes into force in March 2013 are looking for ways to reduce the risk of sourcing illegal material.

Report: Forest crime may undercut efforts to halt climate change. Timber criminals carry much more than the theft of logs on their conscience. Shady timber deals not only harm nations, people and wildlife by destroying forests; they also endanger global efforts to halt climate change.

Coillte "restructuring" seen as smokescreen for sell-off of crucial State assets

BANGKOK, 9 October 2012 (IRIN) - Services to inform communities about the climate are available in higher-income countries, but are not reaching the people most in need of them in developing countries due to lack of government investment and a disconnect between experts and communities facing extreme weather.

"Soldiers came and asked me why I refused to be relocated," a 20-year-old Ethiopian told me in September at a refugee camp in Kenya. "Ojod," not his real name, was still visibly shaken from the horror he had left behind: "They started beating me until my hands were broken... I ran to tell [my father] what had happened, but the soldiers followed me. My father and I ran...  

Disney's radical new paper policy to have major impact By Marc Gunther Published October 11, 2012 "We've seen a tremendous commitment from Disney," she told me, by phone' from RAN's offices in San Francisco.

Last week, three elderly Kenyans established the right to sue the British government for the torture they suffered - castration, beating and rape - in the Kikuyu detention camps it ran in the 1950s.