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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. Forestry Bribes Increasing Despite an ongoing crackdown the number of forestry officials in Laos taking bribes is increasing according to Rangsy Sibounheuang the deputy chief public prosecutor. According to Sibounheuang logging companies in central Laos have been bribing officials to cut logs beyond their government approved quotas. “If a lumber company’s quota allows them to cut 1,000 cubic meters (35,300 cubic [...]

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  2. Catalyst Paper announces extension of the private exchange offer and consent solicitation related to its 8 5/8% senior notes due 2011 (CUSIP No. 65653RAD5) RICHMOND, BC, Feb. 8 /CNW/ - Catalyst Paper Corporation (TSX:CTL) today announced an extension of the private exchange offer and consent solicitation (the "Exchange Offer") for its outstanding 8 5/8% Senior Notes due June 15, 2011 (the "Old Notes"), made pursuant to its Offering Memorandum and Consent

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  3. Wood supply crucial for Northern forest industry, says mill Wood supply is a more immediate issue for the Northern Ontario forest industry than moving to biomass renewable energy, says one Northern player /saultstar.com.

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  4. Weyerhaeuser Co. losses narrow, firm vows improvement in 2010 Weyerhaeuser Co. lost $175 million in the fourth quarter and $575 million in 2009, as the forestry and real estate firm continued to struggle with the depressed market for new homes /blog.al.com .

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  5. Expiry of Tendering Period - Christ Water Technology's Shareholders Have Until February 19 to Tender Their Shares Pursuant to the Terms of GLV's Voluntary Takeover Bid MONTREAL, Feb. 8 /CNW Telbec/ - Management of GLV Inc. ("GLV"; ticker symbols GLV.A, GLV.B / TSX) and Christ Water Technology AG ("CWT"; ticker symbol CWT / Vienna Stock Exchange) wish to remind CWT's shareholders that they have until no later than February 19, 2010, 4:00 p.m. (Vienna time) to

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  6. Forestry Ministry Graft Behind Rapid Deforestation By Nivell Ryada, Jakarta Globe, 3 February 2010 | Corruption was the root cause of the country’s rapid pace of deforestation, threatening to hamper the government’s effort to cut at least 26 percent of Indonesia’s carbon emissions by 2020, environment groups said at a meeting on Wednesday. Susanto Kurniawan, the coordinator of Forest Rescue Network Riau (Jikalahari), said that there were a multitude of brokers inside the central and local forestry offices that supplied the necessary land-use...

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  7. MPs propose carbon tax to boost green investment By Terry Macalister, The Guardian, 8 February 2010 | The European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) is failing to deliver vital green investment after a collapse in carbon prices, MPs warn in a report out today. The environmental audit committee is calling on the government to introduce measures such as a new carbon tax to push the price of carbon from its level of €15 (£13) a tonne to what the MPs see as a more credible price of €100. Tim Yeo, chairman of the committee, said: "...

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  8. Market for carbon trading is starting to look rather shaky By Tony Jackson, Financial Times, 7 February 2010 | The market for carbon trading, never popular in some circles to begin with, is starting to look rather shaky. The bungled Copenhagen summit was bad enough. Now we have the UK energy regulator suggesting the market is not working and that a floor price for carbon should be imposed. . . . Then we come to the aforesaid vexed question of offsets. . . . re is scope for abuse here. And, some claim, there is growing protest among locals who might not...

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  9. Sino-Forest completes acquisition of Mandra Forestry /NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY/ This news release is not an offer to purchase or sale or a solicitation

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  10. Forest conservation via REDD may be ineffective without addressing commodity consumption, trade By Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com, 7 February 2010 | from 2000-2005, rural population growth was not associated with forest loss, "indicating the importance of urban-based and international demands for agricultural products as drivers of deforestation." . . . Accordingly, the authors argue that measures like the proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) mechanism will need to go beyond sustainable development schemes for subsistence cultivators and...

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