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Commodities Now |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
The REDD Desk |
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Paperindex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
Helsinki, Finland, May 20, 2011 – UPM participates in ENO – Environment Online’s Tree Planting Day on May 20 in United Kingdom, Uruguay and Finland. The annual event is part of UPM’s partnership with ENO, a global virtual school and network for sustainable development. ENO has been running since...
360 Yale |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
Nearly two-thirds of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small but troubled nation of Liberia. That is a small miracle. A decade ago, Liberia’s forests were being stripped bare by warlords to fund a vicious 14-year civil war that left 150,000 dead. In 2003, the United Nations belatedly...
CIFOR |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (24 May, 2011)_Bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society and practitioners on development issues is quite challenging. Particularly more challenging is policy response towards climate change adaptation and mitigation in Congo Basin forests.
ORF |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
Es hat fast zwölf Stunden gedauert. Doch letztlich triumphierte die brasilianische Agrarlobby über die Umweltschützer. Brasiliens Parlament stimmte einer Aufweichung des strengen Waldschutzgesetzes von 1965 zu. Für die neue Präsidentin Dilma Rousseff ist das eine große Schlappe. Bis zuletzt hatte...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
If you think timber operations and paper mills cause deforestation, consider this finding from a new U.S. Forest Service study of Southern forests: “Strong timber markets encourage retaining forests rather than converting them to other land uses.”
Paperindex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, May 23, 2011- Sappi Southern Africa today announced that it had initiated a consultation process with staff and relevant Union representatives to cease operations at Adamas Mill in Port Elizabeth in response to difficult market conditions and sustained input costs...
New York Times |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, a Brazilian rain forest activist, and his wife are shot dead near their home in Para State, in the Amazon. In a speech last year, Mr. da Silva acknowledged that his work battling illegal loggers put him in grave danger. “I will protect the forest at all costs. That...
Bloomberg |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
The Asian Development Bank is spending $60 million to help set up three venture capital funds developing climate-change technology in China and India, the Manila-based lender said in an e-mailed statement today.
The Hindu |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
Himachal Pradesh became the first State in the country on Sunday to sign an agreement with the World Bank for securing carbon credits for its ‘Clean Development Mechanism' project in 11 watershed divisions under Mid Himalayan Watershed Development Project. The project named ‘Reforestation...
Mongabay |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
A controversial bill environmentalists say could increase deforestation in the Amazon rainforest moved a step forward to becoming law in Brazil after winning approval in Brazil's lower house of Congress. The measure, which has been hotly debated for months, next goes to the Senate where it is...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
Helsinki, Finland, May 23, 2011 – UPM is one of the very first companies to achieve multinational corporate registration under the revised EMAS III regulation, the EU’s Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme. UPM’s corporate registration includes 15 pulp and paper mills in five EU countries...
The Namibian |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
THE Hindu people of India have a saying in their language stating, “if there is forest there is life and if there life there is forest.”
The REDD Desk |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
FOCALI |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
Times of India |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
NEW DELHI: The government has drawn the attention of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) secretariat to the terms that was agreed upon at Cancun in December 2010, but have not been reflected in sections of the released document. The Union ministry of...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
20 May 2011 | Guyanese Finance Minister Ashni Singh was ebullient when he and his Norwegian counterpart, Erik Solheim, officially launched the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) last October.
My Republica |
vor 13 Jahre 7 months
International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated worldwide on May 22 to further our understanding of biodiversity issues. This year, the International Day for Biological Diversity highlights ‘Forest Biodiversity’ to complement the International Year of Forests 2011, declared by the UN...
European Parliament adopts report on the Commission Green Paper on Forest Protection and Information
The European Parliament (EP) adopted (at its sitting on 11 May 2011) the Report on the Commission Green Paper on forest protection and information in the EU - preparing forests for climate change . The report was drafted by Kriton Arsenis (Greece, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists...