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credits. About the hydropower project in northern India to buy carbon credits. The project is partly financed by a fund administered by the World Bank. There were numerous problems concerning health and safety, working conditions and migrant workers. Study highlights a lack of accountability, doubts about additionality and sustainable development.
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Sweden imports annually 385,000 t soybean and 10,000 t beef from Brazil. Soybean is mainly used for animal feed in Sweden. The major soybean importers are Lantmännen and Svenska Foder via Norwegian company Denofa. The major beef importers are North Trade and Annerstedt Flodin. Control of the Swedish
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Brazilian certification initiatives include ProTerra restricting genetic modification, Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) accepting genetic modification (e.g. Maggi, Monsanto, Bunge, Cargill, Carrefour, Coop Schweiz, Unilever, Denofa and Swedish Lantmännen and Svensk mjölk and WWF), and Brazilian
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is an independent, non-profit organization reporting on business relations in developing countries. Swedwatch is an independent research organization whose task is to critically examine business relations with developing countries focusing on environmental and social concerns as per international
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Sweden is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by about 20 million tonnes per year. Between 1990 and 2009 Sweden's emissions decreased slightly, but they increased again in 2010. In line with Swedish emissions targets, a third of the reduction will be achieved by purchasing carbon
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and cattle raising. In 2002-2010 the land area of UK was added in the soybean cultivation. Soybean cultivation may not be a problem as such, but large monoculture areas and loss of rain forest may be in conflict with the local law and international agreements, add the use EU denied problematic
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companies in the Brazil deforestation was not sufficient. Swedwatch recommends better control, public control reports that can be criticized, and. selection of partners based on certifications.
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chemicals, add climate change gases, and conflict with the rights of local peoples. Deforestation is fastest in
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Empowered but trapped in poverty. Women in the garment industry in Bangladesh want more
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has been criticized in the Swedish media and the Parliament e.g. on 23 March 2010.
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human rights law and standards. Swedwatch have five member organizations: Diakonia,
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2012 June 20: Mineral Invest AB operation to explore and trade gold in the DR Congo
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Risk analysis of glass, iron, concrete used in a public building in Stockholm.
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to provide security. The unit has been implicated in the ethnic slaughter of
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has already been destroyed. The key reasons for ongoing
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Rio+20 Earth summit: Amazon deforestation – in pictures
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