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Andritz informs about new orders: The company and Montes del Plata, a joint venture company of Stora Enso and Arauco, are in advanced negotiations towards concluding a contract for supply of production technologies and equipment for the new pulp mill of Montes del Plata in Punta Pereira, Uruguay (capacity: 1.3 million t/a eucalyptus market pulp), Andritz says. It was agreed not disclose the order value; however typical order values of comparable reference projects are between 750 to 800 mn Euros, Andritz says.

Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mohamed Loulichki stressed the need for taking measures to promote sustainable forest management in Africa through setting up a global funding mechanism.

With financial and technical support from our regional and international development partners, Fiji has continued to further the implementation of Sustainable Forest Management.

In 2007, the Government passed a new forest policy that has sustainable forest management as its foundation.

In 2008, Fiji started the process of revising our forest laws to implement the new direction under the new forest policy.

It may come as something of a surprise to many people that one of Co Mayo’s most realisable long-term energy resource options, especially in terms of benefits to local communities and local economies, is the development of sustainable forestry. 
A research project I was involved in a few years ago (the Mayo Energy Audit) found that Co Mayo could meet over one third of its total heating requirements from wood produced in sustainably managed deciduous woodland, in combination with a smaller area of coniferous plantation.

The US-based conservation consultancy Wildlife Works Carbon won the race to issue the world’s first offset credits for the voluntary carbon market from a project designed to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).