Re: What will PAP do about GOLDEN AGRI and APRIL????
APRIL
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UNEP Champions of the Earth Awards
APRIL is the Corporate Partner for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champions of the Earth Awards 2006, 2007 and 2008
These Awards are presented by UNEP to outstanding environmental achievers and leaders who have made a significant
"Sustainable development and addressing climate change through responsible forestry are key advocacies that APRIL shares in common with the UNEP and the Laureates. This is the main reason we continue to support the UNEP on these Awards for three years now. We believe in and work for the same cause that UNEP and the Champions stand for," said Mr A J Devanesan, President of APRIL.
Prince Albert II of Monaco, former US Senator Timothy E. Wirth, and New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark are among the seven 2008 Laureates who were recognized in ceremonies held in Singapore.
The other 2008 Champions of the Earth are: Balgis Osman-Elasha, a senior researcher at Sudan's Higher Council for Environment & Natural Resources; Atiq Rahman, the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies; Liz Thompson, the former Energy and Environment Minister of Barbados; and Abdul-Qader Ba-Jammal, the Secretary General of the Yemen People's General Congress.
In addition, APRIL was also a strategic partner of B4E - the Global Business Summit for the Environment, a major international conference focusing on business and the environment. This conference was co-hosted by the United Nations Environment Program and the United Nations Global Compact.
APRIL is committed to sustainability by developing fiber plantations that conserve environmental values, drive economic development, and help empower local people. In any concession lands under its care, the company protects all areas that are assessed to have high conservation value, including biodiversity sites, wildlife corridors and sites with significant cultural, religious and/or community value.
More information about the program is available at
http://www.unep.org/champions/.
Citizens of Singapore,do write to UNEP to protest this greedy friend of theirs.
http://www.unep.org/