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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►<<


Reuters India

A climate for European action
Independent
It was also clear they were...

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The World Bank Group seeks a middle path between development and environmentalism / asiasentinel.com

9 hours 58 min

MONTREAL, Sept. 3 /CNW Telbec/ - Boralex Power Income Fund (the "Fund") has today declared a cash distribution in the amount of $0.01667 for the period from September 1, 2010 to September 15, 2010, being the expiry date of the offer made Boralex Inc. ("Boralex") to acquire all the issued and

10 hours 19 min

Deforestation in the Amazon has been found to have fallen dramatically in the last year, after new satellite surveying methods enabled accurate accounting of large-scale destruction.

10 hours 48 min

Ok so this isn’t strictly related to forestry but let’s face it, this is interesting! The ongoing saga of the new Amazon dam has finally come to an end with President Luiz Lula da Silva signing the contract for the Belo Monte dam with the Norte Energia consortium. The 11,000 MW dam will become the world’s third [...]

12 hours 34 min


Amazon deforestation rate slashed
Carbon Positive
Deforestation of tropical forests is a major contributor to greenhouse emissions worldwide. Forest loss adds billions of tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere ...

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18 hours 36 min

WWF, 26 August 2010 | Guided by WWF’s overall forests and climate vision of no net greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation by 2020, the Engaging Civil Society in REDD+ programme sought to build capacity and contribute to the readiness of national REDD+ programmes. Activities focused on several key forest countries – particularly those with high rates of deforestation and forest degradation, and in countries or regions, such as the Congo Basin and Guyana, whose large...

20 hours 34 min

The first half of 2010 saw western timber markets begin to recover after hitting historical lows in mid 2009. The upturn was fueled by optimism in domestic housing markets and strong export demand from Asian markets. In June, when the first time home-buyer credit expired, new home starts fell further than predicted. Things continued to get worse, culminating this week when the lowest seasonally adjusted housing start numbers in more than a decade were released. Housing starts fell twice as fast...

20 hours 40 min

Melbourne, Australia 11-13 October 2010 | Australasia’s premier Trade Fair & Carbon Conference for emissions intensive business and low-carbon economy product & service providers will be this year's best opportunity to network with key domestic and international carbon business players, and to develop strategies to minimise costs and maximise benefits associated with emissions reductions and carbon pricing.

21 hours 5 min

Melbourne, Australia 11-13 October 2010 | Australasia’s premier Trade Fair & Carbon Conference for emissions intensive business and low-carbon economy product & service providers will be this year's best opportunity to network with key domestic and international carbon business players, and to develop strategies to minimise costs and maximise benefits associated with emissions reductions and carbon pricing.

21 hours 5 min


Skepticism mounts on benefits of moratorium
Jakarta Post
The correlation between funds raised through the government's emission reduction plans with the goal to tackle the forestry crisis was vague as there was ...

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21 hours 48 min

Synopsis: 

जलवायु परिवर्तन विश्वव्यापी रुपमा एउटा खेलजस्तै भएपनि नेपाल जस्ता विकासोन्मुख राष्ट्रहरुको लागि एउटा महत्वपूर्ण सामाजिक तथा वातावरणीय चुनौतीको रुपमा आएको छ । हामीले मलुक भरनै यसका प्रभावहरु महसुस गर्न थालिसककेा छौं । ग्रामीण समदुायहरुले वर्षाको प्रवृत्तिहरुमा परिवतर्न...

22 hours 30 min


BMKG to take lead in monitoring emissions
Jakarta Post
The money from Norway would be disbursed based on tons of emissions reduced from deforestation and forest degradation, which would be verified through the ...

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22 hours 43 min


New climate change mitigation schemes could benefit elites rather than the ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Under REDD+ (for reducing deforestation and forest degradation), industrialized countries will provide developing nations with sizeable sums of money in ...
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1 day 31 min

Tembec has announced the permanent closure of its newsprint mill located in Pine Falls, Manitoba.

The mill had been indefinitely idled due to a labour dispute on September 1, 2009. After examining a full range of options, Tembec initiated a sales process for the mill in early January 2010. This sales process has proved unsuccessful. After a thorough analysis of the situation, Tembec concluded that the permanent closure of the facility was the only...

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Helping the millions of poor people at greatest risk from climate change to adapt to its impacts is a daunting task. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report states clearly that climate change is already having discernable impacts. These are...

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Source: CIFOR's Blog -- Because of this haste to implement, he explained, countries may neglect to “build on and learn from previous efforts” and fail to create the conditions – such as secure land tenure and strengthened local capacity

1 day 2 hours

Source: Mongabay --More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense of forests, reports research published last week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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