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December 2012

  • Issue date: 
    Dec. 19, 2012

    EBRD Invests in Renewable Energy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    With a single investment in renewable energy, the EBRD is helping Bosnian pulp and paper producer Natron Hayat generate electricity and save money while also cutting its carbon emissions and reducing the environmental impact of the waste it pr

  • Issue date: 
    Dec 20, 2012

    UPM and Taaleritehdas Have Agreed to Trade 6,000 Acres of Forestry

    UPM and Taaleritehdas have agreed today 20.12.2012 around 6000 hectares of forestry trade. The farms are located in Central Finland in the following towns: Pyhäntä, Utajärvi, Kiuruvesi and Converter.

  • Issue date: 
    Dec 20, 2012

    Mayr Melnhof Karton to Acquire Sodra’s Follafoss mill

    Södra and Mayr Melnhof Karton have signed a Letter of Intent where Mayr Melnhof Karton intends to purchase 100% of the shares in Södra Cell Folla AS and thereby take over Södra’s pulp mill in Follafoss.

  • Issue date: 
    Dec 20, 2012

    Tropical Pulp Still a Long Way From Fiction in German Children's Books

    A WWF-Germany survey of children's books found about 30 per cent of books contained significant amounts of mixed tropical hardwood fibres characteristic of natural forest destruction.

  • Issue date: 
    14 Dec 2012

    Brazil takes action against forest carbon deal in the Amazon

    Brazil's Attorney General Office has taken legal action against a deal signed between an Irish company and an Amazon indigenous group for the sale of carbon credits from avoided deforestation.

  • Issue date: 
    20 December 2012

    Government of UK: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+)

    The world’s total forest area is just over 4 billion hectares, or 31% of total land area.

  • Issue date: 
    Dec. 19, 2012

    ERA and Wildlife Works Deliver First REDD+ Project in the Congo Basin Rainforest

    ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. and Wildlife Works Carbon LLC are pleased to announce the validation and verification of the first REDD+ project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

  • Issue date: 
    Dec 20, 2012

    Mobile Devices for Community-Based REDD+ Monitoring: A Case Study for Central Vietnam

  • Issue date: 
    2 Nov 2012

    Sustainable forestry à la Sweden

    Could the “Swedish model” of sustainable forest management be part of the solution for forestry in other parts of the world? This is the final question posed in the video above, which was first presented by Sweden at the Rio+20 conference last June.

  • Issue date: 
    20 Nov 2012

    Series of REDD+ District-Level Consultative Workshops Continues in Pakistan

  • Issue date: 
    December 10th, 2012

    Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
    Bangkok 2012

  • Issue date: 
    Dez. 10, 2012

    Are we heading back to landfills?

    A Canadian forester recently transplanted to the States asked what sweeping federal policies exist concerning utilization of wood biomass for energy, to which I could only answer, "None." What we do have is a schizophrenic regulatory landscape, in which about 30 states have

  • Issue date: 
    10 December 2012

    UK supports wood-based biomass industry over climate action

    UK alleges it will address drivers of climate change - but aims to subsidise a massive expansion of wood-based biomass industry

  • Issue date: 
    December 10th, 2012

    TPT Forests export market report

    With their recent burst of enthusiasm Chinese buyers are now feeling more positive about 2013 prospects, with the common perception that the newly announced Government Leaders have little choice but to modestly stimulate the economy while new policy is put in place.



by Dr. Radut