US signs on to Aussie forest pact

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Source: AAP

THE United States has agreed to work with Australia on the federal government's global forests plan to address climate change.

The Federal Government last week announced the launch of an international fund to prevent deforestation in the developing world and committed $200 million to targeting Australia's northern neighbours.

Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull discussed the plan in Washington today with White House Council on Environmental Quality chairman James Connaughton, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Dr Paula Dobriansky, and other senior US officials.

The Australian and US governments released a joint statement saying the two governments had agreed to work together to develop the Global Initiative on Forests and Climate and to identify and implement priority projects to reduce global deforestation and improve forest management.



Read more: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21517720-1702,00.html

[Robbien]

1. This doesn't sound good

This sounds like an all out push to identify those forests which will be profitable and which elite lumber company gets rights to them. Loggers want their hands on current protected forestry and the US is going to show Australia how we get it done here.

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3. Who is the last person that wants to see all the trees gone?

The owner of a logging company. They clear vast swaths of land, but they re-plant them with saplings to ensure there will be trees in the future to keep their business going.

[Robbien]

5. Wrong, Loggers clear vast swaths of land then go tell the tree huggers

to replant saplings while the loggers are off finding the next poor area to rape and plunder.

If the loggers replanted each tree they logged, there wouldn't be so little forest area remaining. The loggers, like GOPers, feel there will always be resources available if they are the ones who want them.

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2. Howard and Bush - two corpora-terrorist whores --this can't be good. n/t

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4. i agree. These two are working OUTside of Kyota.