Sustainable forest management

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Nov. 18, 2011

Ethiopia Plans $150 Billion in Spending Including Carbon Cuts

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia is planning to spend $150 billion over two decades on economic development, including investments to lower the country’s carbon emissions, according to a government document.

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2011-11-20

US Forest Service Teams With Society Of American Foresters on Research

WASHINGTON, – U.S. Forest Service scientists contributed to a far-reaching report that will help land managers make decisions about how forests are best managed to help offset carbon emissions, including the use of forest biomass for energy.

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21 Nov 2011

Creating jobs while cutting carbon emissions

IN THE floodplain forests of the Danube River, a short distance from the Slovak-Hungarian border town of Komárno, a small NGO is attempting to harness traditional methods of working with nature to stabilise a disrupted ecosystem and combat climate change.

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November 18, 2011

New method can aid rainforest, help loggers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Reduced-impact logging (RIL) in an Amazon rainforest generated profits while emitting a small fraction of carbon compared with total forest clearing, a University at Albany study concludes.

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November 22, 2011

Laos: Carbon reduction projects get underway

The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) is cooperating with the Forestry Department to implement the Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests Programme (LEAF) in Laos.

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Nov 21, 2011

Community Forestry Unfazed by Political Turmoil

GODAVARI, Nepal, Nov 21, 2011 (IPS) - Nepal’s joint forest management system has taken such deep roots that the country’s prolonged political instability has had little effect on it.

"We’re doing well anyway," Ganesh Bahadur Silwal, 65, general secretary of the Godavari community forestry group, tells an international audience seated in an arc around him in a concrete hall in the scenic Godavari valley, 14 km southeast of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital.

Issue date:

November 21, 2011

Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia's Forests?

The question in Bolivia and all over the Global South is whether forests should be protected, for a price, and who gets a share of that money.

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November 21, 2011

Trees Before Poverty at Durban

New Report Reveals World Bank Forestry Scheme Ignored Deforestation Emissions Data

Donor Aid Money Being Misused

Issue date:

23 November 2011

Old Growth Forests of Northeast China

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November 24, 2011

Violent teak forests dispute resolved

A long-running violent dispute between the world’s largest teak producer and Indonesian forest communities has been resolved, resulting in the recertification of two Indonesian forest districts by the Forest Stewardship Council

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Ethiopia Plans $150 Billion in Spending Including Carbon Cuts

US Forest Service Teams With Society Of American Foresters on Research

Creating jobs while cutting carbon emissions

New method can aid rainforest, help loggers

Laos: Carbon reduction projects get underway

Community Forestry Unfazed by Political Turmoil

Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia's Forests?

Trees Before Poverty at Durban

Old Growth Forests of Northeast China

Violent teak forests dispute resolved

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Ethiopia Plans $150 Billion in Spending Including Carbon Cuts

US Forest Service Teams With Society Of American Foresters on Research

Creating jobs while cutting carbon emissions

New method can aid rainforest, help loggers

Laos: Carbon reduction projects get underway

Community Forestry Unfazed by Political Turmoil

Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel Further Conflict in Bolivia's Forests?

Trees Before Poverty at Durban

Old Growth Forests of Northeast China

Violent teak forests dispute resolved

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