Stora Enso, SCA and International Paper have both been honored by the Ethisphere Institute as Ethical Companies for 2011. Stora Enso has now been selected for the list for the fourth time running, out of a record number of nominee companies and International Paper was recognized by The Ethisphere...
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PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
St. Petersburg, Russia, Mar 15, 2011 - OJSC Ilim Group received a multi-site FSC Forest Management Certificate, which also applies to the Group’s harvesting operations in Siberia (the Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk District Branches). This FSC Certificate covers that largest area of certified forest in...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
UPM, Helsinki, 15 March 2011 at 11:00 EET) - UPM applies for FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification for its forests in Finland. At the same time UPM also extends its forest service portfolio to cover FSC-certification services to Finnish forest owners. UPM's forests and most of the...
Nature |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
For more than three years, the world has been trying to implement a practical way to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions from forests. Known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), the initiative was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in...
RUNA |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
The acquisition in North America is the next step in ITI’s strategy to become an industrial global leader in terms of presence in the key markets of Asia, Europe and America, efficiency and volumes of production. With the acquisition of the two Tolleson sawmills ITI’s global production capacity...
IUCN |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
Internet resources for knowledge sharing among the forest community are offered by Andy Alm and Jack Byrne of IUCN CEC. Reprinted from arborvitae 42: Communicating Forest Values
RUNA |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
The timber harvesting volumes will increase by 30 %, as estimated by Rajap Nabiullin, the Minister for Forestry Complex of the Republic of Bashkortostan. This index was accepted by the Forest Plan and the Program of Development of the regional Timber Industry Complex. The total volume of...
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The Citizen |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
Deforestation and forest degradation have been blamed for increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other green house gases.An environmental expert with the Vice President's Office (VPO), Mr Patrick Ndaki, said in Arusha last week that forest conservation would be given priority in efforts to...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
POWELL RIVER, B.C., CANADA, Mar 14, 2011 — The Government of Canada today announced a series of important investments across the country, totalling $88 million, to protect jobs in Canada’s forest industry. John Weston, Member of Parliament for West Vancouver–Sunshine Coast–Sea to Sky Country, was...
New York Times |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
There has been good news recently for America’s national forests, and some that could have been better. On the decidedly plus-side was a decision by a federal district judge in Anchorage reinstating a Clinton-era rule prohibiting logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The Tongass is home...
Greenwood Management |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
BP has made a $680 million (£424 million) investment in Brazil with a purchase of one of the nation's leading biofuels companies. The British energy giant now owns 83 per cent of the shares of the Companhia Nacional de Açúcar e Álcool (CNAA), which is one of the world's leading producers of...
Forest Talk |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
There has been a lot of analysis in the last few days concerning the impact the massive earthquake, and tsunami in Japan will have on North American timber markets. On Friday, shares of North American timber companies jumped with the thought that an increase in lumber demand will occur to...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
Germany, Mar 11, 2011 - Mr. Guido Fuchs has resigned from the position of Director of FSC Switzerland after 8 years in the organization. He will continue to provide project support until the new Director takes office on 1 June 2011.
IPP Media |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
The government yesterday expressed concern over the increasing wave of investors illegally buying large chunks of land from villagers for forest farming and management, apparently to engage in carbon trade. “If the situation is not arrested, it will cause land conflicts in future, because most...
ABC |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
Growing trees is nature’s way of absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. So most would assume that the forest industry would be front and centre of the government’s climate change policy. They’d be wrong. The government’s carbon price to be introduced from July 2012 will rightly focus on the...
Indigenous People Issues |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
The Center for People and Forests |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
The principle that indigenous peoples and local communities have a right to give or withhold their Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to developments affecting their resources is not new. However, experience using FPIC in REDD+ implementation is still limited in the Asia-Pacific region....
Stabroek News |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
Dear Editor, I am an international forestry consultant who has lived in Guyana whilst working for the Iwokrama International Centre on an International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) project. I also have experience in Canada and several Latin American and Caribbean countries. More recently...
Alert Net |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
here are a billion hungry people in the world and that number could rise as food insecurity increases along with population growth, economic fallout and environmental crises. But a roadmap to defeating hunger exists, if we can follow the course -- and that course involves ditching corporate-...
Epsilon |
vor 13 Jahre 8 months
Lackmann, Steffen, 2010. Carbon storage and forest fire influences in tropical rainforests : an example from a REDD project in Guatemala. Second cycle, A1E. Umeå: SLU, Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management