Over the course of the past year, 300 acres inside the Chiquibul Forest have been hacked, and the razed portions of the forest to date amount to 13,000 acres – larger than Belize City. That is according to Rafael Manzanero, the executive director of Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD...
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Amandala |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
EFI |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
A Host Country Agreement has been signed by the Kingdom of Spain and the European Forest Institute. The agreement was signed yesterday by Cristina Garmendia Mendizabal, Minister for Science and Innovation of Spain and Risto Päivinen, Director of EFI. EFI will have privileges and immunities of an...
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Indonesia's forests were cleared at a rate of 1.5 million hectares per year between 2000 and 2009, reports a new satellite-based assessment by Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), an NGO. Expansion of oil palm and wood-pulp plantations were the biggest drivers of deforestation, yet account for a declining...
TFT |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
A recent Global Witness report on WWF’s GFTN programme has in particular targeted Malaysian company Ta Ann. This company has replied with a statement refuting the allegations and claiming the legality and origin of its timber had been verified by TFT.
Climatico Analysis |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
In recent years the transfer of climate finance has emerged as a policy response to equitably addressing climate change mitigation and adaption in developing countries. Much attention has been given to setting up the multilateral or bilateral mechanisms needed to classify, transfer and disburse the...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Helsinki, Finland, Jul 28, 2011 - All the necessary approvals concerning the sales of UPM’s Russian logging company ZAO Tikhvinsky Komplexny Lespromkhoz to International Paper have been obtained and the transaction has been closed. The sales of Tikhvinsky KLP to International Paper was announced on...
AlertNet |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
* Credits to reduce deforestation and degradation (REDD) * Each is for a tonne of CO2 saved by unfelled forest * So far demand is only in a small, thin voluntary market By Valerie Volcovici, Point Carbon News WASHINGTON, July 24 - As U.N. talks keep failing to agree how to raise money to protect...
The Globe & Mail |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Each year in British Columbia about 16,000 hectares of forest are sprayed with a herbicide that contains glyphosate. It is one of the most popular weed killers in the world, according to the manufacturer, Monsanto. But using it in B.C.’s forests appears to be a mistake on several levels, and...
Guardian |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Reading Global Witness' report this week on how WWF let timber companies use its panda brand logo while they were razing some of the world's most biologically rich rainforests, I was reminded of a trip I took to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007.
Centre for Social and Economic Research |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Current plans to mitigate deforestation could adversely affect rural poor New research shows that international plans to pay developing countries to reduce tropical forest destruction may increase rural poverty because critical income streams to rural people have been ignored.
International Forest Industries |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Obtala Resources Limited (AIM:OBT), the natural resource investment and development company, today announces that it has concluded a Share Purchase Agreement (”SPA”) to acquire a private Mozambique registered company (”Acquisition”). The vendor holds a forestry concession in north-east Mozambique,...
Climate-I |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The World Bank approved a US$13 million project from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to strengthen the capacities of the Congo Basin countries on issues related to REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable...
Global Witness |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Eine neue Untersuchung von Global Witness deckt auf, dass das Aushängeprojekt des WWF zur Förderung nachhaltiger Holzgewinnung – das sogenannte Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) – Unternehmen gestattet, aus den Vorteilen einer Zusammenarbeit mit WWF und seinem ikonischen Panda-Symbol zu...
Global Witness |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
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Guyana Chronicle |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has raised the issue of undisbursed climate change funds with Columbian President Juan Manuel Santos and Andris Piebalgs, the European Commissioner from Latvia, both of whom attended the 32nd CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Basseterre, St. Kitts.
Paperindex times |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev., USA, Jul 18, 2011 - The Forest Stewardship Council's public demonstration that it is the "gold-standard for responsible forest management" has been wrecked following the release of a bombshell report today by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), following the revelation of...
My Net News |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Government as part of its continued efforts to pursue the protection of its rainforest and to address issues relating to illegal activities within, inclusive of illegal gold mining united with Suriname and French Guiana to host a workshop. The workshop which saw various enforcement bodies being...
Open PR |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Seattle, WA, July 15, 2011 -- Australia’s Macquarie Group has announced that it has raised A$25 million for its range of new forest carbon projects in developing countries, which it is undertaking with the World Bank and Global Forest Partners LP. Forestry Research Associates (FRA), a research and...
Survival International |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay. Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have written to the UN Global Compact saying they are ‘concerned and frustrated’ by the inclusion in...
Guyana Chronicle |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has accused the partner financial institutions to the Guyana REDD Investment Fund (GRIF) of behaving as though the money Guyana earned through the Norway MOU is a grant that they’re tasked with disbursing through their usual mechanisms.