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Hilary Chiew
Hilary Chiew is an environmental journalist attached to the feature desk of The Star newspaper in Malaysia. She began reporting on the environment since late 2001 with a special interest in biodiversity and has reported widely on issues ranging from wildlife management to trade and exploitation of flora and fauna. Her works earned her a Reuter’s Foundation scholarship in 2003 where she spent three months in Oxford University researching the proliferation of wildlife trade in the region and the role played by Malaysia as a transit point. She has since gained a huge interest in forestry issues – the politics of logging, marginalisation of forest-dependent indigenous people and the shift to ‘forest for climate’ debate in the global fight against climate change. She covered the inaugural G8 Illegal Logging Dialogue in 2007. She has been a reporter with the same newspaper for the last 16 years and has previously covered general and maritime news.
Posts by Hilary Chiew
Forest rights row exposes cracks in UN climate plans
1 commentLandless farmers, in Indonesia and Malaysia, fear they will suffer if tropical countries get cash to save forests.
»Unstoppable Redd Tide
No commentsSome 80 proposals from governments, environmental groups and donor agencies were submitted to delegates for consideration as 192 nations that are signatories of the UNFCCC met at the historical city of Poland. Despite assurances from promoters of REDD that anyone can participate in its projects on an equal footing, critics are saying that the assurance is at best naive and at worst flawed.
»Rights Ignored
No commentsSkeptical but cautiously accommodating over the inclusion of forests as a mitigating tool for climate change, indigenous communities were dealt a serious blow when their rights as forest-dependent people were not upheld at the annual climate talks. Their request for an expert group to represent their views in the meeting was ignored.
»The Struggle To Adapt
No commentsMuch of the US$172 million of the LDC Fund launched in 2001 remains pledged in name only. To date, only one out of the 38 projects submitted thus far have been approved. Bhutan, the country that secured the only approved project, said that only three of the nine priority areas it identified as urgent and immediate is funded.
»From Kyoto To Copenhagen
No commentsThe UK junior minister confirms suspicions of developing nations negotiators who are frustrated by the lack of progress in the various negotiation forums at Poznan.
»Malaysia explains delayed climate policy
2 commentsMalaysia is taking a long time to develop its climate change policy because it wants to ensure broad-based support, the environment minister said.
»An end to Kyoto Protocol?
No commentsWill the Kyoto Protocol – the global treaty that requires developed countries to shave 5% off their carbon emissions from the 1990 level – be extended when its first commitment phase ends in 2012? Or will it be replaced by a new regime that compels the developing world to take on emission reduction targets earlier?
»Coal nation
No commentsLocated 142km away from Poznan – the Polish city that is playing host to the 14th United Nations meeting on climate change – the coalmines of Konin are the second largest in Poland. Coal accounts for 93% of the country’s energy, more than double the world’s average, earning it the dubious title of the China of Europe.
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