REDD and Malaysia News

Ecosystem Marketplace
This Week in Forest Carbon: Going Once, Going Twice...
Ecosystem Marketplace
The governance issue reared its head again, as a WWF-led REDD initiative funded by Norway was halted after reports of corruption. The WWF is on the line for the approximately $85000 that is missing. Malaysia was busy completing its forest inventory, ...

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Berlin buzz: market titles
Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production Magazine
David A Armstrong's Pawn is said to be in the vein of Inside Man and stars Michael Chiklis, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Common, Sean Faris and Nikki Reed. Brian A Miller's Officer Down stars Stephen Dorff, Dominic Purcell and James Woods in the story ...

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Berlin buzz: market titles
Screen International
David A Armstrong's Pawn is said to be in the vein of Inside Man and stars Michael Chiklis, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Common, Sean Faris and Nikki Reed. Brian A Miller's Officer Down stars Stephen Dorff, Dominic Purcell and James Woods in the story ...

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Independent Online
Malaysia: a retreat to retreat to
Independent Online
The resort itself sits on a privately owned 120ha island 5km off the west coast of Malaysia along the Straits of Malacca. It's the only resort on the island and is surrounded by forest and warm ocean. The spa was opened by none other than the late ...

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Nijhum Dweep 'busiest airport' of migratory birds
Daily Star Online
Dr. Derek Scot from International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB), UK; Mr. Mark Barter, Australasia Wader Studies Group, Australia; Mr. Abdul Wahab Akonda, of Forest Department, Dr. SMA Rashid of NACOM; Dr. John Howes, Mr. David Bakewell ...

The Atlantic Cities
How to Memorialize the AIDS Crisis
The Atlantic Cities
The two pools frame a small memorial space that sits under the robust forest at ground level. Mau, who was born and raised in Malaysia, graduated from University of South Australia School of Architecture and is currently working at a leading ...

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Mongabay.com
Environmental news - setbacks for the palm oil industry, climate outlook darkens
Mongabay.com
The findings could help improve the accuracy of reporting CO2 emissions reductions under the proposed REDD program, which aims to compensate tropical countries for cutting deforestation, forest degradation, and peatlands destruction.

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Martin Hickman: Short-term drive for profit is behind this travesty
The Independent
Nearly half its forest was burnt or chainsawed between 1985 and 2007, proportionally more than neighbouring Borneo, which is shared between Indonesia and the more orderly Malaysia and Brunei. Environmentalists are especially displeased because these ...

CSR Asia
Japan View
CSR Asia
NIES jointly conducted the research with Kyoto University, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, and the Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation in Thailand, and developed a process-based terrestrial biogeochemical model, ...