Irish Times: PAPUA NEW Guinea (PNG) "is in no fit state" to receive international funds under a global deal to stop deforestation and mitigate climate change because of continued logging and corruption, according to a new report by Greenpeace Asia-Pacific. The organisation presented the Asia-Pacific state with a "Golden Chainsaw" award for demanding fast-track funding from donor countries under the UN`s Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme, even though it continues to destroy......
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Papua New Guinea criticised on forest funds call
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2010
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