Articles by Ida Karlsson
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Ikea Products Made From 600-Year-Old Trees
Ida Karlsson – Inter Press Service-IPS,
4 Jun 2012
The home furnishing giant Ikea, founded in Sweden in 1943, is facing heavy criticism for the logging and clear-cutting of old-growth forests in the north of Russian Karelia by its wholly owned subsidiary Swedwood. According to leading environmental organisations, such logging is destroying ancient and unique forests that have a high conservation value. Wood is by far the primary raw material in Ikea’s products. Roughly 60 percent of the products stocked in the multinational’s 300 department stores around the world contain wood in any form.
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Ida Karlsson – IPS News,
7 Feb 2011
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is under fire again. Inga-Britt Ahlenius – until recently one of the highest-ranking officials at the U.N. – explains to IPS her blistering attacks on Ban’s leadership.
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Ida Karlsson – TerraViva Europe,
4 Mar 2010
After the United States senate’s move to stem the flow of money from mineral mines fuelling the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the watchdog group Global Witness (GW) is calling on Europe to follow suit. "We are calling on the European Union (EU) to introduce legislation to exclude conflict minerals […]
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