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Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe | June 3, 2010 Forests Independent monitoring vital to address governance and corruption in US$4 billion deal to end deforestation, new report says Money pledged to help developing countries prevent deforestation and reduce carbon emissions is likely to be lost to corruption unless efforts are made from the outset to improve governance, law enforcement capacity and accountability, warned campaign group Global Witness in a new report published at the UN climate change negotiations in Bonn today. In advance of the latest round of climate talks, about $4bn was pledged for initiatives aimed at "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation" (REDD) between 2010 and 2012. | June 1, 2010 Forests Protecting natural forests must be top priority at UN climate talks BONN, Germany - As talks resume here today toward a new global deal to prevent catastrophic climate change, negotiators will be seeking a way forward on the challenge of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). | May 31, 2010 Forests Campaigners call for change of UN forest definitions to protect the climate Bonn - As climate change negotiations resume here this week, a coalition of environmental campaigners has called on the UN's scientific and technological advisory body(1) to create a new forest definition that differentiates natural forests from plantations. This is needed to prevent global efforts to protect forests and the climate from being undermined, according to the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA). | May 27, 2010 Corruption & Money Laundering Forests Fraudulent emissions accounting threatens to undermine progress on climate Progress towards a meaningful climate deal in 2010 could be significantly undermined if developed countries succeed in their bid to avoid accountability for their emissions from forestry and bioenergy use, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA). | April 21, 2010 Corruption & Money Laundering Forests Cambodia Global Witness statement on BHP Billiton engagement in Cambodia Today it was announced that BHP Billiton is under investigation for potential anti-graft violations by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). The country in which the alleged activities took place has not been named, but the investigation does not involve the company's business in China. Global Witness has the following statement regarding the company's activities in Cambodia: | April 13, 2010 Forests $6 billion plan to save the world's rainforests risks derailment before it begins, warn leading environmentalists Indigenous peoples and other NGOs are being excluded from key international climate meetings taking place this week that could determine the future of the world's rainforests, say a network of forty environmental and human rights organisations denouncing the lack of transparency and participation in the discussions. | March 29, 2010 Forests Madagascar Campaigners welcome Madagascar rosewood export ban but warn that maintenance and enforcement will be crucial Read our call for French company Delmas to end suspect timber shipments | March 15, 2010 Forests Madagascar Environmental groups call on French shipping company Delmas to cancel shipment of precious wood from Madagascar Read Delmas' reply to this letter and our subsequent response | Feb. 24, 2010 Forests Campaigners criticise proposals to define palm oil plantations as forests Environment ministers from more than 100 countries meeting this week in Bali must oppose initiatives from Indonesia and the EU to reclassify oil palm plantations as forests(1), said the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today. Reclassification would subvert global efforts to halt climate change and threaten biodiversity, warned ECA's forest and climate experts. | Jan. 21, 2010 Forests Global Witness launches pioneering forest transparency website Natural-resource campaign group Global Witness is today publishing the first ever Forest Sector Transparency Report Card via a dedicated website, www.foresttransparency.info. The launch will take place at an illegal logging update meeting today, hosted by Chatham House in London. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10