PEFC International has unanimously approved the application of the China Forest Certification Council (CFCC) to join the world's largest forest certification system. "The Chinese commitment to sustainable forest management and forest certification is to be welcomed," said Ben Gunneberg, PEFC...
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TT Journal |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
World Wire |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
BASEL/GLAND, SWITZERLAND AUGUST 22, 2011 –/WORLD-WIRE/– WWF, the World Wide Fund for Nature, is “highly concerned ” about corruption allegations against the Malaysian Ta Ann Group, a member of the WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network, and has announced a review of its sustainable forestry...
The Sydney Morning Herald |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
IN AUSTRALIA, too often we're told the solution to all environmental problems is locking all native forests in unmanaged reserves, where they'll be immortal, grow forever and continuously suck large amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. We're led to believe all forested landscapes can...
The Province |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
In January, a deal was struck between the Pacific Carbon Trust (the provincial Crown corporation responsible for buying carbon "offsets") and one of British Columbia's biggest logging companies - a deal that would allegedly result in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of additional carbon being stored...
Huffington Post |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
NGO-Business partnerships have been getting a bad press lately.
BC Local News |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
In response to Alex Atamanenko’s claims in his Aug. 2 and Aug. 16 columns, I believe the readers of your newspaper deserve and need to know the facts. While there have been changes in the provincial government’s natural resource ministries over the last year, what hasn’t changed is this government’...
PhilStar |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) -- The Philippine Wood Producers Association (PWPA) is urging the government to speed up its evaluation of logging firms so that those who comply with rules on sustainable forest management could resume operations. Antonio C. Olizon, president of PWPA, said Wednesday...
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
Huffington Post: Panda bashing REED-Monitor: REDD+ and carbon markets: Ten Myths Exploded
Vancouver Sun |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
In the aftermath of the disastrous wildfires in 2003 that burned hundreds of homes and caused millions of dollars in property damage in and around the communities of Kelowna and Barriere, the City of Cranbrook began doing what hundreds of other communities across B.C. must do if they wish to better...
GEF |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
Type of Project: FSP Country: Mexico
The Citizen |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
Investing just 0.034 per cent of global GDP could transform the world's forestry sector, halving deforestation rates, slashing carbon emissions and creating up to five million new jobs by the middle of the century.That is the conclusion of a major new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP...
Vancouver Sun |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
Ever since United States house prices peaked in mid-2006 and the great economic slump began south of the border, British Columbia's government and forest industry alike have been understandably anxious. Dependent as we have been on the U.S. market for billions of dollars in forest product...
Forest Talk |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
Don and Donna Kowaluk live in a rural, agricultural area of southern Ontario, near Strathroy. About 15 years ago, 22,500 trees were planted on the Kowaluk’s property. Last winter, the Kowaluk’s decided to turn their land back into agricultural land. They had half the acreage harvested when the...
Times of India |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
PUNE: Soon, planting trees could become a money-making proposition. A proposal on 'tree credits,' a concept to make conditions favourable for people to willingly grow and protect trees by getting appropriate periodic financial returns, has been floated by the directorate of social forestry. The...
EFI |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
UNEP has published the fifth issue in the Policy Brief on Ecosystem Management series. This policy brief seeks to outline how forests can be a key part of a green economy that provides opportunities for innovative solutions to forest management. The provides an overview of the many values of forest...
The Ecologist |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops' From India and Indonesia to Colombia and Costa Rica, the number of bamboo plantations worldwide is rising as quickly as the...
CIFOR |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
Finnish-based paper, packaging and wood product producer, Stora Enso, is setting the pace for behavior change needed within large-scale industry, with its plantations in Lao PDR having a positive impact on crop production among local families and promoting community development and local business...
The Sydeny Morning Herald |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
There is a massive re-rating of native forest going on, even as world resolve to tackle climate change crumbles. Deforestation accounts for roughly 20 per cent of our greenhouse problem, on the ''sink'' side of the ledger (because it's not just about how much gas we pump up into the atmosphere - by...
Earth Island Journal |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
In Mayan cosmology, the ceiba tree, with its elephantine, silver-grey trunk that towers above the jungle, is the tree of life, shoring up the corners of the sky and sending its roots deep into the underworld. In the centuries following the conquest of the New World, Mayans by the thousands were...
REDD-Net |
vor 13 Jahre 11 months
The paper outlines the linkages between forests and agriculture, and the need for REDD+ to effectively address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation from the agriculture sector.