Reports

MISSION HIGHLIGHTS A combination of severe drought and unprecedented financial crisis has seriously undermined Indonesia’s food security. 1998 paddy output forecast to decline by 3.6 percent below 1997 and 6 percent below the 1996 harvest, due…

UNEP News Release 1998/18 Experts and donors in discussions - 20-21 April GENEVA/NAIROBI, 17 April 1998 - Fire-fighting experts, United Nations agencies, international organizations and the donor community are meeting in Geneva next week in an unprecedented effort to combat the forest…

JAKARTA, April 6 (Reuters) - Forest fires in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province were likely to carry on burning after the forecasted end of the El Nino phenomenon in May, an official with the Environment Ministry said on Monday. "The end…

South east Asian environment ministers have agreed to set up a central fund and mobilise regional and international resources to contain forest fires in Indonesia The decision was taken at the third ASEAN environment ministers meeting on fires since December.…

Joint Press Statement 4 April 1998, Brunei Darussalam 1. ASEAN Environment Ministers met in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam on 4 April 1 998 and reviewed the progress of the ASEAN Regional Haze Action Plan to address the problem of smoke…

JAKARTA, April 3 (Reuters) - Indonesia's environment minister said timber companies are to blame for two-thirds of devastating bush and forest fires in East Kalimantan and that it will cost up to $3 billion to put them all out,…

Southeast Asia's environment ministers are meeting in Singapore for the third time in recent months to discuss raging forest fires in Indonesia The ministers will also hold a one-day meeting in Brunei *tomorrow to review the fire situation in several…

The head of the U-N Environment Programme says Indonesia's forest fires have become a global catastrophe. Klaus Töpfer was speaking in Jakarta as a U-N disaster response team assesses the worst-hit province of East Kalimantan. He says it's now obvious the…

Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 14 of 1998 Date: 3 April 1998 This report includes: A) Sudan B) West Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone C) East and Central Africa: Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of…

Fires in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan have destroyed more than 150-thousand hectares of forest this year Provincial Governor Ardans says the fires have caused at least 21-point-five million dollars of damage East Kalimantan, which is also experiencing a drought, has…