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3M Moves Toward Using Sustainably Logged Timber
2015-03-06 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The manufacturing giant 3M, which makes Post-it notes, will take new steps to ensure that its suppliers of paper, pulp and packaging provide materials that come from sustainably logged timber. Environmental activists have accused the company of outdated practices. The company, which also makes Scotch brand tape products, will now require some 5,000 direct suppliers in more than 70 countries to provide data, including the source of their harvested wood fiber. The company says it may sever ties with...
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Illicit timber feeds Indonesias industrial forestry sector, alleges new report
2015-02-19 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Amid government schemes to curb illegal land clearing and systematically enhance a struggling legal wood certification system, a new report analyzing Indonesias forestry industry alleges that more than roughly 30 percent of wood used by the countrys industrial forest sector is derived from illegal sources. But some say the report's analysis wasn't deep enough to support its claims. The report, released by Washington, DC-based NGO Forest Trends and The Anti Forest-Mafia Coalition, an umbrella...
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Timber, Amber and Citron Next Up From Old Spice
2015-01-26 06:00:00| Happi Breaking News
Nature inspires new scents at P&G men's line.
Sarawaks New Chief Minister Takes on Corrupt Timber Tycoons
2014-11-18 09:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: For the first time in the 50-year history of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo, a chief minister has taken the timber industry to task. Chief Minister Adenan Satem Monday gathered the tycoons of the state`s big six logging firms, KTS, Rimbunan Hijau, Samling, Shin Yang, Ta Ann and WTK for a meeting during which he publicly accused them of using "corrupt" practices," according to Malaysian media reports. Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem addresses a Forest Management Certification...
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Timber Industry Ramps Up Political Spending
2014-10-29 16:52:32| Paper - Topix.net
Sadly, this is just par for the course." The industry's lobbying spending rose 15 percent between 2008 and 2013, and campaign contributions from the timber industry to federal candidates also increased by 15 percent between the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.
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