--- Canadian Forestindustries News ---
2013-05-25 01:14 |
Catalyst Paper has sold its Elk Falls industrial site and related assets to Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc., a Calgary-based corporation with extensive natural gas holdings.
The $8.6 million sale was signed and closed today.
Sale of the approximate 1,200-acre parcel includes a fully serviced, 400-acre industrial site and adjacent property near Campbell River...
--- Canadian Forestindustries News II ---
2013-05-25 00:39 |
RICHMOND, BC, May 24, 2013 /CNW/ - Catalyst Paper (TSX: CYT) announced
that it has sold its Elk Falls industrial site and related assets to
Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc., a Calgary-based cor...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-05-24 14:51 |
By Alex Newman, The New American, 22 May 2013 | A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-05-24 14:46 |
By Chip Fay, Jakarta Post, 23 May 2013 | Hundreds of customary communities have already submitted maps to BPN totalling millions of hectares. While these maps identify traditional lands and forests, BPN seems either unwilling or incapable of dedicating themselves to developing and administrating a process of registering these maps and building a national program around issuing ownership certificates to customary communities as a collective. When this happens, local government will be provided a...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2013-05-24 11:49 |
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Observation Programme Board has today given the go-ahead for a new €400-million Earth-observation mission that will measure global forest biomass in unparalleled detail.reports Harriet Jarlett Plane Earth Online.
Biomass measuring concept.
The mission, called BIOMASS, is scheduled to launch in 2020 and will produce the...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2013-05-24 11:34 |
March was the largest month for log exports from New Zealand on record. Not only did the volume exported exceed the largest previous month, but it was over this by almost 15% at a total just exceeding 1.5 million m³. Obviously the largest portion of the volume went to China, where it was also the largest export month on record to that destination. Exports to Korea were respectable at 235,000m³ and exports to India had a big increase to 126,000m³.
While exports from most ports have been...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-24 08:31 |
China has unveiled details of its first pilot carbon-trading program, which will begin next month in the southern city of Shenzhen.
The trading scheme will cover 638 companies responsible for 38% of the city’s total emissions, the Shenzhen branch of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced on Wednesday. The scheme will eventually expand to include transportation, manufacturing and construction companies.
Shenzhen...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-24 08:27 |
With one indigenous language dying out every two weeks, with indigenous livelihoods under threat and with indigenous children being routinely excluded from school, the Africa Caucus of indigenous peoples has appealed to UN member states to take concrete steps to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples.
In particular, the Africa Caucus used the 12th session of the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) to urge countries around the world to...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-24 08:27 |
The Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC) recently organised an expert seminar on Gender, Forestry, Climate Change and REDD+ (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) in Hanoi.
This activity is part of a project concerning capacity building for grassroots forestry stakeholders in order to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. On the sidelines of the seminar, Vietnam Business Forum interviewed Mr Nguyen Ba Ngai, Deputy Director...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-24 08:24 |
In order to be effective, the programme needs to be able to communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders both within and outside of the government and internationally. The same applies to other programmes developing REDD+ readiness in Cambodia supported by multinational and bilateral development partners, NGOs and others. Effective and efficient REDD+ readiness requires open communication of all information related to the process. All of these initiatives are contributing to...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-05-24 07:36 |
ABC Radio Australia, 24 May 2013 | An illegal logger in Cambodia has dropped an address book during a bust, leaving behind details of corrupt government officials and spying rangers. An illegal logger in Cambodia has dropped an address book during a bust, leaving behind details of corrupt government officials and spying rangers. The man fled after being intercepted by police over an illegal haul of rare rosewood in Koh Kong province earlier this month. Beth Eisenstaedt from Wildlife Alliance...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-24 06:39 |
This side event on government and private sector efforts to scale up to first-of-their-kind integrated jurisdictional REDD+ programs will be held at the Carbon Expo.
Jurisdictional REDD+ programs present a major opportunity for governments to dramatically increase the scope of forest conservation in a region, while simultaneously...
--- Canadian Forestindustries News ---
2013-05-23 15:19 |
Lawyers for the Grassy Narrows First Nation have filed their appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada.
The appeal is concerning the recent Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision that the province has authority to issue logging permits on all public lands and forests in the province, including...
--- Canadian Forestindustries News ---
2013-05-23 15:02 |
Nova Scotia has released a report that summarizes what Nova Scotians said are the best ways to use the 1.5-million acres of Crown land in the province’s western region to ensure sustainable economic, social and environmental benefits for communities.
The report summarizes comments received at nine open-house consultations in March and April, at stakeholder meetings, and through online submissions.
“The responses we’ve heard confirm that Nova...
--- International Forest Industries ---
2013-05-23 13:34 |
The world’s largest international forestry convention ElmiaWood becomes wider than ever. The industry is gearing up for a real human and machine party when manufacturers and suppliers to showcase their new products and innovations in the forests south of Jönköping 5 to 8 Jun 2013. It’s still tough times in the forest industry, but the pressure and interest in the show is bigger than ever. We have never had such a big exhibition stand space in terms, says...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-05-23 12:47 |
By Thomas Hubert, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 22 May 2013 | As the world grapples with implementing a U.N.-backed scheme aimed at slowing forest loss and degradation (REDD+), new research from Cameroon shows that the complexity of the scheme demands expertise from a variety of players within and outside government. “The variety of aspects covered by REDD+ means the Ministry of Environment can no longer be expected to lead the way on its own,” says Denis Sonwa, scientist with the Center for...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-05-23 10:32 |
By Ana Madigibuli, Fiji Times, 23 May 2013 | Fiji is looking at ways it could improve its logging practices so less harm is done to its forests. This was highlighted during the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) plus strategy workshop in Suva last week. "The workshop is to largely develop the Fiji REDD plus strategy which started in 2011," said Christina Fung, the German Technical Co-operation landuse planning and facilitation specialist, during the...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-23 09:49 |
Unconfirmed reports that China is preparing to cap its greenhouse gas output has raised hopes among observers worldwide that the planet’s biggest emitter will act to break a stalemate in global climate negotiations, despite widespread caution that any limit Beijing sets will be too high to prevent damaging warming.
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--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-23 09:48 |
Many of the trees planted under the government’s reforestation programme are dying because there is insufficient funding to maintain them.
The Forestry Department has observed that of the trees planted by people and the government, about 65-70 percent have survived, department Deputy Director General, Mr Thong Eth Phayvanh, told Vientiane Times yesterday.
In contrast, commercial tree growers are seeing survival rates of between 80-100 percent...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-05-23 09:47 |
The opening of the International Hydropower Association (IHA) World Congress in the Malaysian state of Sarawak was marred by indigenous protests and controversy after a local indigenous leader was barred from attending a pre-conference workshop. Over 300 people from local indigenous people protested the ongoing construction of around a dozen mega-dams in the state that threaten to flood traditional lands, force villages to move, and upend lives in the state. The Sarawak hydropower plans are...
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