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September 2012

  • Issue date: 
    11 September 2012

    WB expresses concern over increasing deforestation in Bangladesh

    The World Bank (WB) has expressed deep concern as deforestation is alarmingly increasing in the country.

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  • Issue date: 
    10 September 2012

    Guyana’s LCDS and REDD+ model promoted at IUCN World Congress in Korea

    Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy and REDD+ model has been cited by former President Jagdeo at the IUCN World Congress in Jeju, South Korea as one of the working examples to achieve conservation of nature and address global climate change while creating livelihood opportunities at the nati

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  • Issue date: 
    Sep 13, 2012

    Forest project issued CO2 credits for California market

    Project developer Finite Carbon announced Wednesday it has registered a project that has issued 200,000 offsets eligible for use in California's cap-and-trade system, bolstering the currently short supply of credits available in the forthcoming market.

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  • Issue date: 
    10 Sep 2012

    NZ Government’s free market approach naive

    “New Zealand’s primary industries have this week been dealt another blow to value-added forestry products as Norske Skog has favoured re-building their Tasmania paper machine, over the one in Kawerau, and the reason is clear – government subsidies bought the deal for Australia,” said Forest Indus

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  • Issue date: 
    September 13th, 2012

    New Zealand log prices

    In-market log prices are reduced slightly this month. However demand is still strong as shipping prices have lowered. The in-market log price has lowered 1-2% for the products Agrifax monitors, however the cost of shipping in $/JASm³ has lowered 5-6%. Inventories

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  • Issue date: 
    11 September 2012

    IDB, CI-Guyana sign US$1.6M deal for LCDS implementation

    THE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Conservation International-Guyana (CI-Guyana) signed an agreement yesterday, to begin a project that will test models for implementation of this country’s Low Carbon Development S

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  • Issue date: 
    13 September 2012

    Açaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests?

    The increased cultivation of açaí — the purple fruit that dangles from palms in the Brazilian rainforest and is touted by many celebrities as the number one superfood for ‘age-defying beauty’ – may be one of the reasons for the country’s staggering increase in forest cover over the past two decad

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  • Issue date: 
    10 Sep 2012

    Are conservation projects succeeding in the Lower Mekong Basin?

    For thousands of years, the people living on the banks of the Mekong river have been paddling through its often treacherous waters in wooden cargo boats laden with all manner of freshly grown produce, ready for trade.

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  • Issue date: 
    13 Sep 2012

    Kyoto carbon credit glut is far larger than expected, warn analysts

    The giant surplus of carbon credits currently swamping the global carbon market may never recede, removing any hope of reducing global emissions without a significant increase in national emission reduction targets, campaigners will warn today.

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  • Issue date: 
    Sept. 17, 2012

    Looking at the future of cellulose

    If you're a pulp supplier in it for the long term these days, there's no standing still. It's been clear for a while that real demand in traditional end-use markets such as graphic papers is not going in our favour and we'd be foolish to think that's going to change.

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  • Issue date: 
    17 September 2012

    Going once, going twice….. the great green land grab

    “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore!” Mark Twain’s wry observation on the North American land acquisition boom of the late 19th century remains just as pertinent today as it was then.

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  • Issue date: 
    13 September 2012

    New CSO Observers Selected for UNREDD

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    Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally Binding Agreement on Forests in Europe (INC-Forests2)

    The Second Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally Binding Agreement on Forests in Europe (INC-Forests2) will convene from 3-7 September 2012 in Bonn, Germany.

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  • Issue date: 
    19 September 2012

    What does the future hold for ethical investment?

    Ethical investment has hit the headlines recently as figures have suggested that there has been a slight drop in interest.

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by Dr. Radut