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We offer management consulting services to clients throughout the forest products value chain, from resource providers to end users. Our unique experience allows us to recognise relevant driving forces and assess their impact on client business. We help clients capture strategic opportunities and avoid pitfalls.

One main area of our expertise lies in strategy formulation and execution regarding raw materials, markets and products. For instance, we help our clients find new business prospects in raw materiel procurement or better predict the competitive environment.

Another main area of our skills is to combine our leading-edge industry expertise and management consulting know-how with the best practices in the fields of sustainable ecosystem management and biodiversity protection such as supporting our clients in forest management and chain of custody certification.

Recent study:
Billion hectares of land have potential for forest restoration

We complement the skill set of client organisations with our wide and deep industry specific perspective. Our working methods range from technical analysis to process facilitation and from sparring to scenario workshops. We work well on every level of client organisations. With our unique understanding of the whole forest industry cluster, we can interpret trends or nuances in client business landscapes.

 

You can find some historical background information about central Eurpoean forestry >>here<<



  1. Real threat to rainforest By David Nussbaum (WWF-UK) and Andy Rowell, Letter to the Sunday Times, 7 February 2010 | I AM the co-author of the WWF report that you alleged included the bogus figure that “up to 40%” of the Amazon was sensitive to reduced rainfall. Not only did you fail to contact me, but you ignored credible evidence that the figure was correct. You also ignored evidence that the figure had been backed up by peer-reviewed research both before and after our publication. You spoke to Dr Dan Nepstad, one of...

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  2. Delivering coup-de-grace to U.S. cap-and-trade By John Kemp, Reuters blogs, 3 February 2010 | President Barack Obama read the last rites for national cap and trade in 2010 on Tuesday, while senior Democrats in the House of Representatives prepared to put a stake through its heart to ensure the Environmental Protection Agency does not try to resurrect it unilaterally without congressional approval. Obama finally bowed to the inevitable and admitted cap and trade might need to be separated from a more popular green jobs bill in the Senate, a...

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  3. EU reviews internet security after emissions fraud Reuters, 4 February 2010 | An email "phishing" fraud against the European Union's greenhouse gas Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has prompted the executive European Commission to revise its Internet security guidelines, the Commission said. German officials said on Wednesday that online fraudsters had targeted international carbon markets to steal emissions permits from companies and sell them illegally.

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  4. Urban growth, farm exports drive tropical deforestation AFP, 8 February 2010 | The biggest causes of deforestation in tropical countries are population growth in cities and agricultural exports, a finding that should shape decisions on preventing forest loss, experts said Sunday. Under December's Copenhagen Accord, rich countries are pledging some $10 billion over the next three years to help poor countries tackle climate change. A big but so far unspecified chunk of the cash will go on programs to prevent loss of tropical forests, which is a...

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  5. Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century By Ruth S. DeFries, Thomas Rudel, Maria Uriarte & Matthew Hansen, Nature Geoscience, 7 February 2010 | [F]orest loss is positively correlated with urban population growth and exports of agricultural products for this time period. Rural population growth is not associated with forest loss, indicating the importance of urban-based and international demands for agricultural products as drivers of deforestation. The strong trend in movement of people to cities in the tropics is, counter-...

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  6. Better off REDD By Hana Miller, The Jakarta Post, 9 February 2010 | While the investment by such a large international firm bodes well for the project’s apparent financial viability, the project in Ulu Masen has raised one of the main concerns with REDD and the cap and trade system in general: that of “carbon leakage”, or an increase in emissions or deforestation in one area as a result of a decrease in another, effectively moving the problem rather than solving it. According to landscape ecologist Dr. David...

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  7. Carbon Monitor Volume 15 Issue 1 February 2010 GHG Emissions Trading, Environmental Intermediaries & Trading Group Limited, 8 February 2010 | REDD its impact on future Forest AAU prices: The acceptance of REDD will offer the benefit of potential access to the EUETS for NZ forest credits which may be good for maximising the price. Not so good is the expected flood of REDD credits into the market. So whilst countries are setting ambitious post 2012 targets of up to 1990 minus 30% in some cases, they are also insuring large scale supplies...

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  8. Copenhagen Accord and Nepal: Precise, appropriate projects needed By Jagadish C. Baral January 31, 2010 marked the deadline given by the UNFCCC to its member states to ratify the Copenhagen Accord, the deal that had witnessed a large scale controversy during the 15th Convention of Parties held in Copenhagen between December 7-18 last year. The roots of the major resentment lay on the undemocratic process...

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  9. Continuous improvement in safety at TimberWest NANAIMO, BC, Feb. 8 /CNW/ - TimberWest Forest Corp.'s commitment to safety showed positive results for the fourth consecutive year with its Medical Incident Rating (MIR) dropping from 2.17 in 2006 to 0.53 in 2009, a decline of 88 per cent.

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  10. Corporate Entertainment The 101 voices, faces and clean entertainment of Brinnon and Marks mix in a boat-load of impersonations , add two parts of audience participation and pour in a gallon of customization with skits and hilarious songs about your group.1 Vote(s) ...

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