Damascus – Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform and the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry signed on Wednesday the project plan for building capacity in sustainable forest management planning.
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DP-News |
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The Herald |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
IF you hear the term sustainable forestry, you may well associate it with tree plantations. It is fairly common knowledge that environmental groups want to put a stop to old-growth logging, with large plantations seen as the main alternative. (An old-growth forest is one that has never been...
CIGAR |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
January 2011: The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins has released a policy brief that describes efforts to reduce conflicts over who controls forests and forest margins.The brief, titled "Stewardship Agreements to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in...
VCS |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Thursday 13 January 2011 – WASHINGTON – A new methodology for crediting projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) was approved for use under the VCS Program Thursday. Developed by environmental consultancy Wildlife Works Carbon, the methodology is the fourth...
Forest Talk |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
China has come to the rescue for many sawmills and timberland owners in the US and Canada the past year. The value of softwood logs and lumber shipped from North America to China is estimated to reach over 1.6 billion US dollar in 2010, which is up dramatically from just a few years ago. In...
British Columbia announces a federal/provincial $1.2 million program to boost First Nations forestry
$1.2 million in federal-provincial funding for the First Nations Forest Sector Technical Support Program will help First Nations with economic development in the forest and wood products industries, announced Minister of State (Sport) Gary Lunn and Minister of Forests, Mines and Lands Pat Bell.
UN |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Eduardo Rojas-Briales is Assistant-Director- General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests. Previously, he was Vice-Dean of the Agronomy and Forest Faculty of the Polytechnical University of Valencia. He has...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Helsinki, Finland, Jan 18, 2011 - Stora Enso’s and Arauco’s joint-venture company Montes del Plata will build a new state-of-the-art 1.3 million tonnes per year pulp mill at Punta Pereira, in the department of Colonia, Uruguay. The total investment is estimated to be approximately USD 1.9...
Carbon Positive |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
The new year sees emissions trading plans in Japan shelved and under mounting question marks in South Korea as their respective governments face heavy political pressure from industry. Japan’s plan for an emissions cap and trade scheme to start in 2013 have been shelved for now following heavy...
Guyana Chronicle |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
..says EPA The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says a sawmilling project by Simon and Shock International – a timber company – requires an Environmental Impact Assessment before a permit can be granted for the operations to go ahead. The operation is to take place in the Upper...
Nepal Times |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
The current political disarray is resulting in calamitous deforestation across the country, and threatens to roll back Nepal's internationally acclaimed community forestry success story. Smugglers in cahoots with government officials, police, and members of forestry user groups are responsible...
Counter Currents |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) 2011 held in the heritage city of Hyderabad from the 10-14th January 2011 was an eye opener with regard to the critical role that the commons such as forests, water bodies, and grazing lands play...
Phnom Penh Post |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
The Forestry Administration has warned that the government will not meet its goal of achieving 60 percent forest cover nationwide if it continues parcelling out the Kingdom’s territory in economic land concessions. According to the Forestry Administration’s 2010 annual report, released last...
Jagadees |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
REDD is supposed to be about reducing emissions from deforestation. Unfortunately, if you really look at the agreements and what’s behind it, you find that that’s not exactly what REDD is designed to do. REDD is really—has been designed as a way for—and is being pushed by the United States—as a...
World Politics Review |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed an agreement with his counterparts in Acre, Brazil and Chiapas, Mexico, to cooperate on efforts to counter climate change.
NewsWire CA |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
VANCOUVER, Jan. 18 /CNW/ - The British Columbia Lumber Trade Council (BCLTC) responded today to a request by the Office of the United States Trade Representative to seek arbitration under the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) on matters relating to British Columbia's interior forest pricing...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
18 January 2011, London, UK – Two Sides has achieved measurable success from its national campaign to educate major UK corporate companies such as Banks & Building Societies, Utilities and Telecoms about using misleading or factually incorrect environmental claims in their marketing message...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
From today, Nijpels Meubelen B.V., the largest producer of ready-to-assemble furniture in The Netherlands, will be using the PEFC label on its products. On 12 January it was issued with a PEFC chain of custody certificate, enabling Nijpels Meubelen to demonstrate that their products have been...
RISI |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
RISI, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA, Dez. 20, 2010 (RISI) - Well-funded marketplace environmental campaigns from groups like ForestEthics in the US have been promoting increased use of recycled and FSC-certified fiber in paper and have led some major paper buyers to change their paper...
Timber Community |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
UPM has selected Rauma as the possible location for a biorefinery in Finland. Rauma was chosen ahead of Kuusankoski for two key reasons: more efficient energy utilisation, and lower investment costs e.g. in foundation work. UPM has not yet made an investment decision on building a biorefinery.