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2013-06-18 02:47 |
By Lafcadio Cortesi, Rainforest Action Network Blog, 10 June 2013 | Indonesian paper giant APP says it wants to change, but, given its track record, the company must prove itself before it can be trusted as a supplier of pulp and paper products. Unfortunately, APP’s four-month-old commitment to stop destroying Indonesia’s rainforests has already been called into question. WWF Indonesia recently published an open letter to APP’s CEO Linda Widjaja that raises concerns related to documented...
--- Canadian Forestindustries News ---
2013-06-18 00:55 |
A statement from Brad Thorlakson, Tolko’s President & CEO :
In the early morning of June 15, Bradley Haslam, an 18-year old clean-up crew employee at our Lavington Division, became entangled in a conveyer belt at the mill. He was discovered by the Clean-up Shift Supervisor, who freed him from the equipment and, along with two others, administered emergency first aid until medical...
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2013-06-17 23:00 |
TORONTO, June 17, 2013 /CNW/ - Norbord Inc. (TSX: NBD, NBD.WT) today
announced that S&P Dow Jones Canadian Index Services has confirmed that
Norbord will be added to the S&P/TSX Composit...
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2013-06-17 17:16 |
Mobile phones are to be used to monitor illegal logging in the forests of Indonesia under a new pilot project which, if proven successful, could eventually be used all over the world.
--- Canadian Forestindustries News ---
2013-06-17 15:20 |
The Government of Saskatchewan is seeking input from people across the province to improve and modernize The Provincial Lands Act (1978).
The Act provides the authority to the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment to administer provincial Crown lands.
The Ministries of Agriculture and Environment will be holding consultation meetings throughout the province. Consultations will help inform changes to the Act. Crown land clients will receive...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-17 14:50 |
China will mark a climate change policy milestone on Tuesday when the city of Shenzhen launches the nation’s first trading scheme to reduce growth in greenhouse gas emissions, although analysts expect carbon markets to initially have only a modest impact.
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--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-17 14:46 |
Emissions reductions created through forest protection never will become a tradable commodity, and private investors are beginning to realize that, a consultant for the Third World Network said.
Forest carbon can’t be measured as accurately as CO2 discharges from industrial projects, Kate Dooley, who advises the environmental group on climate change issues, said today in Bonn. Under the United Nations’ Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program,...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-17 14:44 |
The United States is committed to increasing bilateral cooperation in carbon trade with Indonesia. The commitment was revealed in a meeting between Indonesian Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan and US Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International and Scientific Affairs Kerri-Ann Jones at the former`s office here on Monday.
In the meeting Zulkifli Hasan said that the Indonesian people had begun losing their confidence in international cooperation in carbon trade...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-17 14:39 |
The UN-REDD Programme released a Policy Brief today that offers some answers to several questions on the prickly topic of the private sector, the ‘who, what, why and how’? Interviews held while writing the brief revealed a wide range of views and emotions on the subject. At the narrow end of the spectrum, there are those who apply the term only to those involved in the world of carbon credits, or verified emissions reductions. At the broader end of the spectrum, there are those who view the...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-17 06:48 |
The Conference will highlight lessons from initiatives based on a range of social forestry models and approaches from within and beyond the ASEAN region, and how these attempt to balance livelihood and food security needs on one hand, and conservation and climate change adaptation and mitigation objectives on the other. The Conference will also feature the Lao PDR’s Village Forestry Model, and the country’s recent forest-based climate change initiatives and policy reforms.
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--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-17 03:48 |
Stabroek News, 16 June 2013 | Chinese company Bai Shan Lin is in control of almost one million hectares of Guyana’s forest after taking controlling interest in a number of small forest companies with concessions, which has led to concerns by forest researcher Dr Janette Bulkan that the company is engaged in illegal landlording. In a Power of Attorney, seen by Stabroek News, Bai Shan Lin International identified its subsidiary companies as Karlam South America Timbers (Guyana) Inc, Haimorakabra...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-16 15:39 |
WWF, 14 June 2013 | The global community was one step closer today towards realizing a formal mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) at the close of UN climate talks in Bonn. REDD+ negotiators, representing Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), worked overtime over the two-week meeting to address key areas of REDD+. Draft text recommend for adoption at the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) in Warsaw in November was...
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2013-06-16 09:01 |
By Kate Evans, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 13 June 2013 | Incipient initiatives designed to reduce carbon emissions through avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are also helping to secure forest land tenure in Brazil, a new study has found. REDD+ is a UN-backed scheme that aims to mitigate global climate change through incentivising developing countries to keep their tropical forests standing – and is also seen by many as a way to promote conservation and bolster rural livelihoods...
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2013-06-16 08:59 |
By Barbara Fraser, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 12 June 2013 | Researchers and policymakers have a lot to learn in designing and implementing climate change adaptation strategies from smallholder farmers in the Amazon, says Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez, scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and Director of International Programs at the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability at Columbia University. “Traditional forest knowledge and practices are...
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2013-06-16 08:58 |
By Valerie Gwinner, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 12 June 2013 | They had hoped to incite debate. Instead, the authors of a report on oil palm development in Cameroon discovered that they had spurred a national strategy. “The message we wanted to pass to policymakers and NGOs was that oil palm development can strongly boost economic development and reduce rural poverty—but not just anywhere or anyhow,” said Patrice Levang of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Institute of...
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2013-06-16 08:58 |
By Barbara Fraser, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 12 June 2013 | For indigenous communities and other forest dwellers in Latin America, reaping the benefits of timber depends not only on tenure rights, but also on how well they deal with markets, argues a new study. The study undertaken in four communities – each with different characteristics, but representative of situations throughout the region – said everything from their proximity to markets and bargaining power to their level of dependency on...
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2013-06-16 08:57 |
By Julie Mollins, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 11 June 2013 | Efforts to stop an increase in global temperatures can succeed if policymakers put in place a broad governance structure to oversee REDD+ from which money would trickle down through state-level funding to local projects, according to a new research paper. How best to govern REDD+ — a U.N.-backed framework for reducing emissions caused by deforestation and degradation — is politically disputed, particularly over what role financial...
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2013-06-16 08:56 |
By Amy Duchelle, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 11 June 2013 | Much of the controversy over hydropower plants in tropical nations is focused on what dam construction and flooding will do to people and the environment. But what about what forests do for dams? A team of US and Brazilian scientists presents a unique perspective on the relationship between forests and hydropower in an article recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Stickler et al.’s study focuses on the...
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2013-06-16 08:55 |
By Barbara Fraser, CIFOR Forests News Blog, 11 June 2013 | Guatemala’s protected areas safeguard some of last remaining forests, but they are also threatening the livelihoods of the very people who have maintained these reservoirs of rich biological diversity for generations, a new study says. “The study emphasizes the importance of new access and exclusion rules from forest resources which are are redefining ecological systems in the Guatemalan highlands,” said Anne Larson, principal scientist...
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2013-06-16 08:53 |
By Michael Szabo and Andrew Allan, Reuters, 13 June 2013 | Governments may this year launch a global framework to tie together national and regional greenhouse gas reduction efforts, a move that U.N. climate negotiators meeting in Germany this week said could lay the groundwork for a global carbon market... The plan could include launching a pilot scheme to examine developing common standards that could, for example, join existing and future carbon markets with mitigation efforts or initiatives...
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