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African Development Bank |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The Citizen |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The government is to refund a total of Sh 2.8 billion to the Norwegian government as settlement for a long running dispute stemming from reported embezzlement of millions of shillings in a Donor backed natural resources development programme. The Citizen has established that the refund is...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The government of Vietnam has spent two years piloting regional schemes that use economic incentives to preserve forests by getting businesses that benefit from them to pay people who preserve them. Now it’s taking the scheme nationwide.
18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland, 28 June - 2 July 2010 | Contents: Invited Speaker Abstracts, Oral Obstracts, Poster Abstracts, Author Index. www.cfc2010.org
Daily Times |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
It must be realised that while population growth and poverty do threaten forests, their destruction is more seriously determined by institutional and economic policies. Institutional failure can occur due to pro-degradation land use development policies or if there is a lack of regulation of...
The Jakarta Post |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
The past few decades have witnessed the increasing importance of forest resources for humankind. Not only serving the global demands on timber and interest in economic well-being, forests are also seen as vital in providing environmental services and amenities for humans, providing habitats to...
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) has condemned Malaysia's booming practice of converting tropical forests into rubberwood plantations, arguing that the conversion threatens Malaysia's biodiversity, endangered species, and releases significant greenhouse gas emissions...
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Wood Business |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Eucalyptus trees with a foreign gene that helps them withstand cold weather could become a new source of wood for pulp, paper, and biofuels in the Southern timber belt, said a report in the New York Times.
Google News |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
KATHMANDU — Nepal has banned people from cutting down trees for two months after reports of massive deforestation in its lawless southern plains, a government spokesman said Friday. The government made the ruling after receiving reports that more than 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of forest...
Business Wire |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CE2 Carbon Capital (CE2), one of the largest investors and owners of U.S. carbon commodities and carbon emissions reduction projects, has partnered with Dogwood Carbon Solutions (Dogwood), a developer of agriculture and forestry-based conservation projects, to...
EFI |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
NEWFOREX meeting deals with the challenges of implementing the valuation of forest externalities Forest externalities are those forest goods and services which are not actively marketed, but which are also valuable other people than the forest owners. Often these externalities include...
Reuters |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
* To pay about $53.7 mln for 230 mln shares * Says deal to help meet growing wood demand in China * Sino-Forest V-C to become CEO of Omnicorp on completion
World Resources Institute |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
This document provides a detailed summary of the greenhouse gas (GHG) offset provisions in the American Power Act, which was introduced by Senators Kerry and Lieberman on May 11, 2010.1 Table of Contents Domestic Offsets
Stuff |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
The sheep industry is fighting for its life as farmers turn to dairying and forestry for better returns. How has it got to this and what can be done? As much as anyone, John Gregan has worked hard to engineer a revival of sheep farming. He is a founder of a ginger group that at its height drew...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Local communities already help manage over 25% of the world’s forests through what is called Participatory Forest Management (PFM). Tom Blomley, forestry advisor for the Danish government’s international aid agency, DANDA, explores PFM’s successes and shortcomings, and how lessons learned can...
The Timberland Blog |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
The pace of timberland transactions is still pretty slow but they are occurring (about 500,000 acres since my update last fall) and prices do not appear to have dropped below those of late last year. I think the 10% - 15% decline estimate (from the peak) is still pretty solid. In some places it...
Citola |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
There aren’t many beards in evidence at Citola’s offices, but we hope you’ll know what we mean when we say we’ve been doing a lot of beard-stroking when it comes to the issue of the UN climate change talks. The media dust has more or less settled on the Bonn conference, which ended last week,...