August 2012 Blog Posts

Recently, I posted a blog about my first experience in the Climate Leadership Programme (CLP), initiated by the German Agency for International Development (GIZ) in collaboration with the Southeast Asia Pacific Center for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management (CCROM). The CLP is a one-year program that aims to provide professional development for climate leaders from Indonesia …

At first, I was surprised to be given the opportunity to join the Climate Leaders Programme (CLP), an initiative by the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit, or German Agency for International Development), which took place in Yogyakarta Indonesia from 15-21 January, 2012. The program aims to bring together representatives of major stakeholders related to climate …

APP Infographic: Sustainable Paper Cropped

If you don’t live and breathe pulp and paper like we do at APP, you may not know about the intricacies of the sustainable paper industry. The infographic pasted below this post provides a quick at-a-glance explanation of the sustainable paper industry, from the planting cycle through forestry production and ending in the final product …

The OCCQ, where orangutans meet humans: One of the training participants holding a baby orangutan

Orangutans and Us

| 2012, August 17

The word friendship can be used to describe many things. On July 23, 2012, I had an opportunity to see a different kind of friendship. As part of Asia Pulp & Paper Group’s (APP) Indonesian Stakeholder Engagement team, I went to a six-day Orangutan conservation training session in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, with 30 other …

China’s Forest Products Certification Workshop

The realm of forest certification in China is currently undergoing rapid advancement, and these developments will ultimately have a positive impact on sustainability on a global level. The 12th Five-Year Plan for China’s Paper Industry confirms its current status as the foremost paper manufacturing and consumption nation in the world. Despite the rapid growth of …