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Thursday, June 19, 2008 --- 77 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TriplePundit/~3/315315340/international-carbon-in
 In the pacific region countries have joined forces to tackle land-clearing in an attempt to reduce regional emission levels. One of the latest carbon partnerships, agreed to in April this year, is between Papua New Guinea and Australia. The agreement has been criticised from its inception and with the release of a recent forest analysis report covering PNG, the potential usefulness of the program going forward is further questioned. Papua New Guinea is losing 362, 400ha of rainforest every year, one of the highest rates of deforestation and the worst scale of land-clearing as a percentage of the country size (1.4per cent of its land area). Farming and logging are the main industries leading to this depletion, which without being curtailed will result in more than 80 percent of the entire rainforest disappearing within 13 years. A rate ‘considerably faster’ than ever before predicted. This new information brings into question the effectiveness of the $200 million international forest carbon initiative in the pacific region. A report released last week, ‘The State of the Forests of Papua New Guinea,’ examines land clearing trends and brings further criticism surrounding the rationality and potential for success of the carbon program. The report’s senior author, PNG Remote Sensing Centre director Dr. Phil Shearman, considers "The reality is that forests are being logged repeatedly and wastefully with little regard for the environmen ... |
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