June 2009

Brazil approves land tenure law that grants 67 Mill. ha of rainforest to settlers

Forests / Waelder: Abholzung, Land tenure rights, Landnutzungsrechte, Biodiversität, Biodiversity

June 29, 2009: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last week signed a controversial law granting 67.4 million hectares (166 million acres) of Amazon rainforest land to more than 1 million illegal settlers, reports Reuters.

Implications of the Markey-Waxman bill

Forests / Waelder: REDD+, Klimaänderung, Climate change, Carbon, Kohlenstoff

Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: Nachhaltige Forstwirtschaft, Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft, Sustainable forest management

Implications of the American Clean Energy and Security Act for conservation

June 26, 2009:Following today's passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) by the House of Representatives, The Nature Conservancy released a set of questions and answers with Mark Tercek, its chairman and CEO.

New Zealand Eucalyptus for the U.S.

Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: afforestation, Aufforstung, Forstplantage, Industrial forest plantation, Pflanzung, planting

28 June 2009: A Quarter Million NZ Raised GE Eucalyptus Trees Intended for Planting in U.S; Soil &Health Association of New Zealand, (Est. 1941), Publishers of ORGANIC NZ

More than a quarter of a million genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees exported from New Zealand stand to shred New Zealand’s clean, green brand and risk large-scale health and environmental damage, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
June 28, 2009
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.scoop.co.nz
Author: 
Soil &Health Association of New Zealand
Reference-Link: 

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00313.htm

Australian timber industry joined forces to accelerate legal timber

Forests / Waelder: Illegal logging, Illegale Holzschlägerungen, FLEG, Forest certification, Forstzertifizierung

24/06/2009: Australian timber industry consolidates and improves systems to verify legally harvested wod

India: Punjab forest dept to distribute one million seedings

Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: afforestation, Aufforstung, Forstplantage, Industrial forest plantation, Pflanzung, planting

Punjab forest dept to distribute 10 lakh seedings

Wednesday, 24 June 2009: CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Forest Department has decided to give a big push to agro-forestry in the State and would distribute 10 lac seedlings of fast-growing and economically important tree species such as Eucalyptus, Shisham and Drek.

 

 

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A new pulpmill in Western Europe!

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Pulp, Zellstoff, Pulp- and Paperindustry

SCA Ortviken’s new pulp plant inaugurated

June 24 2009  “We need strong companies that can make long-term investments even in the bad times,” said Bo Källstrand, County Governor, when he inaugurated the new mechanical pulping line at SCA's Ortviken paper mill in Sundsvall, Sweden. The plant represents an investment of nearly one billion Kronor.

Understanding carbon offsets

Forests / Waelder: Handel (-Zertifikaten), trading, Bindung, REDD+, sequestration, Senke, sinks, stocks, Vorrat, Carbon, Kohlenstoff

Article series

This is a series of articles (started here, June, 1st 2009) taken from GRIST, Offsets are still counterfeit carbon credits

The arguments in favor of counterfeit carbon credits still fail no matter how often they are repeated

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
June 2, 2009
Publisher-Link: 
www.guardian.co.uk
Author: 
John Vidal, environment editor
Author e-Mail: 
www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnvidal
Reference-Link: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/02/carbon-offset-friends-...

Record losses of Global Forest Products Industry in 2008

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Boards, Sägeindustrie, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Pulp, Zellstoff, Paper, Papier, Plattenindustrie, Schnittholz, Lumber, Sawn timber, Woodworking industry, Saw milling industry, Pulp- and Paperindustry, Panel Industry, Boardindustry

TORONTO, June 24 /CNW/ - The Top 100 Forest, Paper and Packaging (FPP) companies from around the world saw net income tumble from positive $13.8 billion in 2007 to record losses of $8.0 billion in 2008, the first time this metric has been negative since 1996, the date PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) began the annual PwC Global Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry Survey. This year's survey shows that:

Forestry returns outperform the rest over three years

Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: Investment, Nachhaltige Forstwirtschaft, REIT, timberland management, TIMO, Valuation

London, 24th June 2009: Investment in forestry outperformed domestic commercial property and equities last year, producing a positive annual total return of 7.0%, eclipsed only by bonds, according to the IPD UK Forestry Index.By comparison, UK commercial property delivered -22.11%; UK equities returned -29.92%, while listed property companies and trusts were the most vulnerable to the global market downturn, returning -46.63% over 2008. Bonds, however, gained 154%.

Wood chip import prices to Japan at record highs in the 4Q/08

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Wood chips, Hackgut, Pulp- and Paperindustry

June 25th, 2009: Wood fiber consumption by the Japanese pulp industry reached a record high in 2008. Over 72 percent of the consumed wood chips were imported, most from hardwood plantations in the Southern Hemisphere. The costs of imported wood chips have increased substantially the past three years, reaching their highest level in at least 20 years during the 4Q/08 reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.*

Washington to sell tab water to the middle east?

Forests / Waelder: Ökosystemleistungen, Abgeltung von Ökosystemleistungen, PES

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Nichtholzprodukte, Non-timber products

Jun 25, 2009 : The Cosmopolis pulp mill, located near Aberdeen in Washington state, was closed by Weyerhaeuser in 2005. The city of Aberdeen now has 30 million gallons of water a day available that the pulp mill no longer requires.

UK kicks Climate debate in front of Copenhagen

Forests / Waelder: Handel (-Zertifikaten), trading, Klimaänderung, Climate change, Carbofinance, Carbon, Kohlenstoff

Gordon Brown puts $100bn price tag on climate adaptation. Prime minister attempts to move stalling political talks on global warming away from targets and towards the cost of mitigation.

Carbon trade or tax?

Forests / Waelder: Handel (-Zertifikaten), trading, Carbon, Kohlenstoff

Britain’s faith in carbon trading as a way of reducing greenhouse gases could be dangerously misplaced, according to an independent academic working with the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Newsprint still vital

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Newsprint, Zeitungspapier, Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Pulp- and Paperindustry

Article series

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By Chris Cook, Deputy Editor, PPI Pulp & Paper Week, RISI

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2009 - At a speech in Barcelona the other day, World Association of Newspapers (WAN) president Gavin O'Reilly had an upbeat message for newspaper executives from more than 50 countries who had come to exchange ideas on business strategies for the future.

  • 1.9 billion people read a paid daily newspaper every day
  • Newspapers reach 41% more adults than the world wide web
  • More adults read a newspaper every day than people eat a Big Mac every year