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Issue date: 
4 May 2010

Forest Investors Grapple with Sustainability

Investor interest in forestry is building, driven by climate change concerns, shifting and growing markets for forestry products – and the good, old-fashioned portfolio diversification benefits of an asset class which weathered the financial crisis much better than most and which offers stable long-term returns. But, argue sustainable finance experts, barriers to monetizing the environmental attributes of the sector remain high – both retarding investment but also generating opportunities for early movers.

Issue date: 
May 06, 2010

Illegal logging in Indonesia costing U.S. jobs-report

INDONESIA-LOGGING/USA

* Indonesian illegal logging hurting U.S. industry -report

* Trade tools can help clean up the sector

* Illegal logging threat to efforts to fight climate change

Issue date: 
May 04, 2010

Climate Talks in Bonn Made Some Progress, Envoys Say

May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican and German efforts to bring together delegates from more than 40 countries helped push climate negotiations forward even though they produced no tangible achievement, Germany’s environment envoy said today.

Issue date: 
May 05, 2010

Informal climate dialogue ends with guarded optimism

Though opinions were still poles asunder, participants at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue emerged from three days of discussion which ended Tuesday with guarded optimism.

They based their optimism on hopes of reviving stalled debate and rekindling practical cooperation among those who attended the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen last year.

The Petersberg dialogue was co-hosted by Germany and Mexico which is to host the follow-up to the Copenhagen conference in November.

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April 30, 2010

Sandor Exits CO2 Trade, Sells Climate Exchange to ICE (Update3)

(Updates with Sandor comment in third, 14th and 15th paragraphs.)

By Mathew Carr and Simon Lomax

Issue date: 
May 5th, 2010

Kenya Turns to Carbon Trade in a Bid to Curb Climate Change

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has  said the country is keen to partner with investment bankers to promote trading in carbon markets and  ensure the rehabilitation of the Mau and other threatened forests in the country.

Issue date: 
5th May 2010

Mondi sells European paper merchant for €60m

Paper and packaging group Mondi would sell its Europapier business to Austrian paper and pulp manufacturer the Heinzel Group for €60-million in cash, it announced on Wednesday.

The JSE- and LSE-listed Mondi noted that the proceeds of the sale would be used to reduce its net debt.

Survival of the fittest – also true for the forest, paper and packaging industry?

PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) published its annual review of the Forest, Paper and Packaging industry in January 2010

Named “Forest, paper and packaging: CEO perspectives <of the year>”, PWC is doing quite a challenging annual job. And every year the report is coming up with astonishing intimate insights. But let us have a closer look to the latest report (the 2010 version):

Issue date: 
16 April 2010

REDD manuals: What is REDD and what to do with REDD?

Issue date: 
Apr 28, 2010

Renewable Electricity Plan concerns Forest Industry

Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia (FPANS) has concerns with Nova Scotia's new Renewable Electricity Plan released on Friday (April 23rd) by the provincial government (.pdf).

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