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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Dec 20, 2012

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

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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.

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20 Nov 2012

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

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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

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by Dr. Radut