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	<title>redd-monitor.org &#187; Papua New Guinea</title>
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		<title>McKinsey&#8217;s bad influence on REDD is decreasing &#8211; at least in Papua New Guinea</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/01/18/mckinseys-bad-influence-on-redd-is-decreasing-at-least-in-papua-new-guinea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Consulting firm McKinsey has played a key role in pushing a version of REDD that underestimates the role of industrial logging and agriculture on forest destruction, while painting local communities as forest destroyers. McKinsey's advice, if taken seriously, would have had serious implications for local livelihoods and would do little to reduce deforestation. In November ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can REDD save Papua New Guinea&#8217;s forests?</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/10/27/can-redd-save-papua-new-guineas-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/10/27/can-redd-save-papua-new-guineas-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Earlier this week, Greenpeace activists blockaded a Chinese logging ship, the Fu Tian, that was exporting timber from Papua New Guinea. The ship was docked near the village of West Pomio, where villagers are protesting the operations of Malaysian logging company Rimbunan Hijau and its subsidiary, Gilford Limited. "The Fu Tian should be departing ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Bikpela bagarap&#8221;: New film about destructive logging in Papua New Guinea</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/01/bikpela-bagarap-new-film-about-destructive-logging-in-papua-new-guinea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/01/bikpela-bagarap-new-film-about-destructive-logging-in-papua-new-guinea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A new film produced by David Fedele documents the destruction caused by the logging industry in Sandaun Province, in Northwest Papua New Guinea. The film documents the social and environmental impacts of the logging. The Malaysian logging company, WTK Realty, makes large profits from the logging, but leaves serious problems for the local community. Fedele's ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mind the gap: Indigenous Peoples&#8217; rights and REDD</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/04/27/mind-the-gap-indigenous-peoples-rights-and-redd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/04/27/mind-the-gap-indigenous-peoples-rights-and-redd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Forest Peoples Programme's April 2011 ENewsletter starts with this sentence: "Closing the gap between international human rights law and realities on the ground is the most important challenge facing forest peoples." This raises a question for REDD proponents: Is REDD helping to close the gap, or further widening it? From the evidence presented in ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKinsey&#8217;s advice on REDD is &#8220;fundamentally flawed&#8221; says Greenpeace</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/04/08/mckinsey-advice-on-redd-is-fundamentally-flawed-says-greenpeace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/04/08/mckinsey-advice-on-redd-is-fundamentally-flawed-says-greenpeace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DR Congo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, Greenpeace released a report titled, "Bad Influence: How McKinsey-inspired plans lead to rainforest destruction." The report highlights how advice from McKinsey &#038; Co., one of the world's top consulting firms, will result in an increase in the destructive logging it is, in theory at least, supposed to prevent. McKinsey has provided advice to several ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination letter to PNG about Special Agricultural and Business Leases</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/03/23/un-committee-on-the-elimination-of-racial-discrimination-letter-to-png-about-special-agricultural-and-business-leases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/03/23/un-committee-on-the-elimination-of-racial-discrimination-letter-to-png-about-special-agricultural-and-business-leases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In the past 13 months, the government of Papua New Guinea has issued Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs) covering an area of 2.6 million hectares of land. The area of land so far handed over as SABLs totals 5.6 million hectares. Earlier this month the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Kevin Conrad dismissed NGO requests not to weaken safeguards in the REDD text in Cancun</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/01/05/how-kevin-conrad-dismissed-ngo-requests-not-to-weaken-safeguards-in-the-redd-text-in-cancun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/01/05/how-kevin-conrad-dismissed-ngo-requests-not-to-weaken-safeguards-in-the-redd-text-in-cancun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REDD and rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=6997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a post just before Christmas, I mentioned that Kevin Conrad "was busy in Cancun on Papua New Guinea’s behalf watering down safeguards in the REDD text." A comment explained exactly how Conrad weakened the safeguards. What is perhaps even more interesting is the way Conrad dealt with a request from a Papua New ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from Kirk Roberts to Kevin Conrad</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/12/22/letter-from-kirk-roberts-to-kevin-conrad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/12/22/letter-from-kirk-roberts-to-kevin-conrad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=6937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ This morning, REDD-Monitor received an email, apparently from Kirk Roberts of Nupan Trading Corporation Ltd. The email is signed "Kirk William Roberts For and on behalf of the people of PNG," and attached to it is an letter from Roberts to Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea's Special Envoy and Ambassador for Environment and Climate ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Papua New Guinea&#8217;s National Joint Programme approved by UN-REDD Policy Board</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/11/09/papua-new-guineas-national-joint-programme-approved-by-un-redd-policy-board/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/11/09/papua-new-guineas-national-joint-programme-approved-by-un-redd-policy-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last week, the UN-REDD policy board approved almost US$6.4 million for Papua New Guinea's National Joint Programme. However, in a letter to the co-chairs of the UN-REDD Policy Board, the PNG Ecoforestry Forum lists 16 conditions aimed at improving the National Joint Programme (posted below). The NJP states that the 36 month programme starts in ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Papua New Guinea not ready for REDD &#8211; Greenpeace</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/10/26/papua-new-guinea-not-ready-for-redd-greenpeace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/10/26/papua-new-guinea-not-ready-for-redd-greenpeace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday, Greenpeace presented the Papua New Guinea government with a Golden Chainsaw award "for asking for REDD money whilst continuing with rampant logging, failing to respect indigenous rights and denying NGO input into REDD discussions". The award was accepted by Federica Bietta, who is representing the PNG government at the UN Convention on Biodiversity ... [...]]]></description>
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