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Pasca Demo 24 Juni 2008 Tolak Kenaikan Harga BBM.

Mahasiswa Dijahit Kepalanya, Satu Lagi Dirawat Pasca Demo BBM Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Tiga mahasiswa dirawat di Rumah Sakit Jakarta akibat mengalami cedera dalam aksi demonstrasi yang berlangsung di depan Gedung DPR, Jakarta, Selasa petang.

Friends of Rastafaraus,

Have a look at this invitation and please make time to come, you won't regret it!  An exhibition that highlights problems in Papua's forest sector and civil society's initiatives to fight forest destruction in one of the largest islands in the world.. There will be also our brothers and sisters from Papua who work on this issue, so come and show that we care!

Jah bless U..

Did You Know?

  - 65% of all print-outs and photocopies are binned before the end of the day.

- Almost half (42%) of all industrially-logged trees end up as paper. Irresponsible production causes negative impacts on biodiversity and communities as well as human rights abuses in many pulp and paper producing regions.

- Globally, paper production and disposal releases three times as much climate change emissions as global aviation.

- Industrialised countries consume more resources than the world can supply while staying within its carrying capacity: if everyone on earth had the consumption habits of Europeans we would require more than two planets.

- Europeans and North Americans alone use over half of the world´s paper. The use of printing and writing paper has quadrupled since 1960.

Informing NGOs, MEPs, Member States, the European Commission and the media. Issue 128, June 2008.
With global demand for energy continuing to rise despite crude oil reaching an all-time high of US$135 per barrel in May 2008, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has stated that the EU should “not expect too much” from carbon pricing and other market-based instruments. Since 2004, for example, European consumers have been paying a ‘shadow carbon price’ of approximately 85 per tonne of CO2 in the form of higher taxes on vehicle fuels, but the higher prices have had little impact on consumer behaviour. “We should not leave everything to the market,” said Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chief economist, echoing Nicholas Stern’s comment that climate change is the greatest and widest-ranging market failure the world has ever seen.1