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 The most recent (March 2009) policy brief of the United Nations Environment Programme on Global Green New Deal is about the ‘worst financial and economic crisis’ and raises the question whether the response of financial stimulus of $3 trillion globally is sustainable. UNEP recommends a green stimulus of 1 per cent of global GDP (approximately $750 billion) – one-fourth of the total proposed fiscal stimulus could provide a critical mass of green infrastructure ‘needed to seed a significant greening of the global
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 Palm oil is a vegetable oil, not an animal or dairy product, and therefore does not contain cholesterol. It is produced from the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis. Palm oil sometimes is confused with palm kernel oil, but is in fact different, being derived from the mesocarp of the palm fruit rather than the centre kernel.
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The Associated Press (AP), the American news agency formed in 1846 has had a checkered history filing reports ranging from The Alamo to the Battle of Little Big Horn, to Nazi Germany’s surrender to the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City.
On June 4th 2009, the AP filed a report entitled “Study finds potential profits in conservation”, an innocuous enough title, focusing on a study in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters, which recommends that selling credits for the billions of tons of carbon that are locked in Indonesia's tropical rain forests could be as profitable as converting these areas into palm oil plantations. |
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 In a forum of palm oil producers recently, Joefly J. Bahroeny, head of the Indonesian Palm Oil Producers' Association, said that Western countries are using climate change as an excuse to constrain palm oil production in Asia because it competes with Western business interests.
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