• Increased poverty, land conflicts and deforestation: The Asian Development Bank's plantations record

• Policies and actors behind monoculture tree plantations

2006

• Laos: ADB's eucalyptus plantations increase poverty

2005

• Secrets and lies: The Asian Development Bank’s new forest policy

2004

• Laos: Ongoing problems with the Asian Development Bank's "successful" Nam Leuk dam

2003

• Laos: EcoSecurities helps ADB provide carbon subsidies to the pulp industry
• A forest stolen for cash
• ADB’s draft forest policy: The politics of participation
• Bangladesh: “Save Sundarban, Save People Through Empowered Community Participation”
• Asian Development Bank joins World Bank in promoting industrial scale carbon sinks projects in the South
• ADB's Draft Forest Policy: Putting Profits before People
• Laos: Asian Development Bank to support proposed Nam Theun 2 dam
• Laos: Secrets, lies and tree plantations
• Bangladesh: Sunderban Biodiversity Conservation Project questioned

2002

• Laos: Villagers aware of the threat of industrial tree plantations

2001

• Laos: Freedom of information, industrial tree plantations and the ADB
• Indonesia: ADB will not fund Mamberamo dam
• Asian Development Bank subsidising deforestation in Laos

2000

• Laos: Subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector

ANALYSIS AND CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE ADB`s NEW FOREST POLICY

• ADB Campaign Paper on Asia's Forestry
  Part I: The ADB's Role in Asia's Forestry
  Part II: A Critical Review of ADB's Policy on Forestry
  by Philip Gain, from the Bangladesh NGO Society for Environment & Human Development. October 1996.

ADB's Forest Policy:

• The ADB's March 1995 forest policy

• ADB's June 2002 draft Forest Policy

• ADB's June 2003 draft Forest Policy

Correspondence regarding the ADB's new forest policy:

• FoEI letter to the ADB about the draft forest policy
  • Cover letter from Rod Harbinson, Friends of the Earth International to ADB President Tadao Chino, 28 May 2003.
  • Putting Profits before People, a critique of the ADB's June 2002 draft forest policy: ‘Forests for all and forever’ was sent with the letter, 16 May 2003.
• FoEI Forest critique sign-ons
  Individuals and organisations that endorsed the critique of the June 2002 draft forest policy.
  
  
• The ADB's response to FoEI's letters.
• Cover letter from Jan P.M. van Heeswijk, Director General at the ADB's Regional and Sustainable Development Department, 28 July 2003.
• The ADB's response to FoEI's letters and the critique
• Letter from Chris Lang to Jan van Heeswijk
• Response from the Bank to Chris Lang's letter

• FoEI and NGO Forum letter to ADB's Board of Directors about their proposed forest policy, 16 July 2003.

• Model Forest Policy for Financial Institutions
  Rod (FoEI) and Sameer (NGO Forum) sent this to the ADB as an example of what a forest policy should include.

• Correspondence with Uschi Eid, the Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
  • Letter from Chris Lang to Uschi Eid, 18 July 2003.
  • English translation of letter from Uschi Eid to Chris Lang, 6 August 2003. (German version of this letter)
  • Letter from German NGO Working Group on the ADB to Uschi
    Eid, 15 September 2003.
    
• BIC letter to ADB's Paul Speltz regarding concerns about the draft Forest Policy and its review process, 21 October 2003.

• Letter to Mr. Mir regarding the ADB's long delayed forest policy
  sent by Chris Lang, 3 September 2004.

• NGO Forum on ADB letter to President Chino expressing concern about the review process of the Forest Policy, 19 November 2004.

• Mekong groups call for World Bank, ADB and other donors to stop promoting tree plantations

• Banking on the Forests: The politics of the ADB’s involvement in Asia’s forests - article published in Asienhaus - Issue Nº 15 - November 2003 (German version here) - By Chris Lang

• Banking on deforestation: Asian Development Bank support to industrial forestry in Lao PDR - By Chris Lang

• Modhupur. A stolen forest, robbed Adivasis, by Philip Gain, Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD)

• ADB to test carbon sequestration in Indonesian forests from UN Wire

• ADBWATCH: Protest against ADB in Hawai'i on May

• Position Paper of the SBCP Watch Group on Suspension of Funding by ADB for the Sundarban Bio-diversity Conservation Project

• ADB's plantations projects in Laos

• ADB and Smallholders Agriculture Projects in Papua New Guinea - June 2003, Briefing Paper prepared by Lee Tan, Australian Conservation Foundation/Friends of the Earth Australia

• The Pulp Invasion: The international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region
  • LAOS: Subsidies to a struggling plantation industry
    International support to the industry: ADB
• THAILAND: The fast-growing pulp and paper industry
  International support: ADB
• VIETNAM: Deforestation, reforestation and industrial plantations
  International support: ADB

LINKS

The official Asian Development Bank web page: 
http://www.adb.org

Mekong info
http://www.mekonginfo.org/