Forests and Climate Change
The ASEM Environment Minister's Meeting
April 24-26, 2007, the environment ministers of ASEM - the Asia-Europe Meeting - come together in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, sustainable development, deforestation and illegal logging. ASEM encompasses the EU and 15 Asian countries. More than half of the world's population lives in its member states.
The issues at stake for forests
>> Reduced deforestation - Why destroying forests threatens climate
>> Biofuel production - a threat to forests
>> The biodiversity safety net - how natural forests protect humans
>> Illegal logging and related trade
>> Ways forward - perspectives on the ground
>> Ways forward - the international context
>> Business as Usual is Not an Option
- A letter from Danish NGO's to the environment ministers with key policy recommendations
Read comments from the president of Nepenthes on the ASEM meeting:
>> Press release about deforestation and climate change
>> About Nepenthes - who we are
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