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Haze epicenter receives environmental award in Indonesia
2016-07-24 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Indonesian government on Friday bestowed the annual Adipura Awards to 143 cities and districts across the country. The awards, conceived as an incentive for local governments to commit to green and clean management, were presented in Siak, Riau province, on the island of Sumatra. This year marks the first time the prizes were awarded outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, according to environment and forestry minister Siti Nurbaya, who attended the ceremony with vice president Jusuf Kalla...
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Tiger Paw Beverages wins Jimi Hendrix court battle over Purple Haze Liqueur
2016-07-06 17:14:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Tiger Paw Beverages, a US spirits maker sued by Jimi Hendrix's estate, has won the right to continue producing its Purple Haze Liqueur.
Indonesians will not be prosecuted by Singapore over haze, says VP: media
2016-06-13 06:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indonesia will not allow Singapore to prosecute its citizens over forest fires that blanketed the region in toxic smog in 2015, media on Monday quoted Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla as saying. Singapore media said last week the city-state was planning to prosecute Indonesian polluters in Singapore courts under the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act. Home to the world's third-largest area of tropical forests, Indonesia has been criticized by green activists and by neighboring Southeast Asian...
With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model
2016-02-04 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last year some two million hectares of land in Indonesia went up in flames across Sumatra, Borneo, and the Western half of New Guinea. The conflagrations caused choking air pollution, hospitalizing hundreds of thousands of people and further denting regional economies already hard hit by the downturn in commodity prices. Daily carbon emissions from the fires during the height of the crisis were higher than the daily emissions from the entire U.S. economy. Most of the haze was caused by fires burning...
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Indonesia to launch haze lawsuit appeal
2015-12-31 04:07:13| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Indonesian government says it will appeal a court decision to reject a $565m (381m) lawsuit against a plantation company accused of causing forest fires.
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