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 16th July 2012
Fifteen Irish environmental groups complained to the commission that only an ad hoc "environmental analysis of various scenarios" is being carried out by consultants, with the aid of submissions from interested parties.
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1st July 2012
(this is a chapter excerpt from Clive Ponting's A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations)
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 18th June 2012
A process of adaptation at the national level is now underway, which will incorporate the Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Legality Grids for the Republic of Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville and Central African Republic as the cur-rent signed Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) countries in the region. This will help facilitate recognition of FSC certifi-cates as a route to FLEGT...
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 8th June 2012
Lucy Shea of The Guardian explains why being named on the Planet Brands Index isn't a mark of acheivement, it's a call to action
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 3rd June 2012
New figures from the the Beverage Marketing Corp. (h/t National Geographic) show that bottled water sales were up 4.1% last year, versus just a 0.9% increase in bottled drink sales in general.
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2nd June 2012
Companies are gutted as they ship production offshore to the cheapest source because saving money is what counts. In his book, He went on about a company making lawn sprinklers; to meet the price demands of .....
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 19th May 2012
Almost 100 timber trade experts from governments, international organizations, industry and non-governmental organizations met this week in Kuala Lumpur to discuss how tracking technologies can improve governance in the forestry sector.
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16th May 2012
The debate about ensuring the EU addresses problems of corruption and mismanagement in the natural resources sector is heating up. The Confederation of Bishops, former BP head Lord Brown and US senators support strong EU legislation requiring EU-listed companies and non-listed large companies in the extractive sector to disclose their tax and revenue payments to governments worldwide. At issue is...
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8th May 2012
On Thursday 26th April 2012 Chut Wutty, Director of Cambodian environmental watchdog Natural Resource Protection Group (NPRG), was shot and killed by members of the Cambodian Military Police while carrying out field research into illegal logging and land seizures.
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12th April 2012
Our choice is whether to become resource efficient now, or wait until we are forced because critical resources are exhausted and expensive.
During the 20th century the world population grew four times, its economic output 40 times. We increased our fossil fuel use 16 fold, our fishing catches by a factor of 35 and our water use 9-fold. It was called the "great acceleration", but I am...
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