News analysis: World businesses start caring for climate, local ones fall behind

Mostafa Kamal Majumder

Indonesian pulp and paper company April is making a strong claim of positive contribution towards the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as its reforestation of about 50,000 hectares a year with 100 million seedlings is said to make a significantly positive balance.
Neil Franklin, sustainability director of the Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (April), told newsmen during the Business For the Environment (B4E) summit in Singapore that his company now manages 340,000 ha of highly productive plantations and 242,000 ha of protected conservation area in Riau, Indonesia. [Read more]


 

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