Annual forestry exports up over 6 percent during 2009
Financing future forestry growth is the focus for a new forestry conference which is drawing a wide audience from both the finance sector and many new participants in the industry. reports Friday off cuts.”Many people in both the finance industry and the investment sector are waking up to the real opportunities which are happening now in New Zealand forestry”, said conference organiser John Stulen of the Forest Industry Engineering Association.
Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different
More Lao forestry officials are taking bribes in exchange for illegal logging concessions.
BANGKOK—The number of forestry officials in Laos charged with taking bribes is increasing despite an ongoing crackdown, according to a top government lawyer.
President Jagdeo appointed to UN climate change panel
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Bharrat Jagdeo has been appointed as one of four world leaders to sit on a United Nations panel to address financing for countries in the fight against climate change.
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