The forest industry in B.C. is finding its way out of the woods, thanks in large part to the Chinese marketplace, according to Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell. Bell — who spoke with media Thursday at Comox Valley MLA Don McRae’s constituency office in Courtenay — said shipping forest...
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BC Local News |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
Democratic Voice of Burma |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
Up to 15 trucks laden with illegally logged timber are being smuggled from northern Burma through army checkpoints into China every day, locals in Kachin state have said. A resident of Bhamo, close to the Chinese border, told DVB that army units along the trade route have been “collecting a...
Vancouver Sun |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
John Innes, to be officially named as the new dean of the University of B.C.'s Faculty of Forestry today, said his priorities include developing links with China and other international partners, and working closely with first nations representatives.
The National Business Review |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
A dairy farmer planning on growing manuka scrub says Federated Farmers lobbyists are mounting a vocal campaign against the farmer accountability for greenhouse gases, but failing to back landowners who want to "farm" carbon credits. There is a solid business case to be made for converting hill-...
Earthtimes |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
...with the biggest gains seen in Northern Europe and Oceania
All Africa |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The Federal Government has underscored the need for the industrial nations to support the developing nations to fast track the pace of activities to reduce carbon emissions through deforestation and forest degradation. Minister of Environment John Odey made this emphasis in Oslo while addressing...
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
On May 15th the West African nation of Gabon implemented a total ban on log exports. According to the International Timber Trade Organization (ITTO) the ban has been efficiently enforced to date and log exports from Gabon have "completely halted". ITTO also reports that around 60,000 cubic...
UN REDD |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
UN-REDD Programme Officer, Wahida Patwa-Shah and UN-REDD Natural Resources Officer, Linda Rosengren, look beyond carbon to flesh out the many ways forests provide benefits to society, and highlight steps the UN-REDD Programme is taking to ensure these benefits are safeguarded in national REDD+...
Earth Negotiations Bulletin |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The Bonn Climate Change Talks begin today and are scheduled to conclude on Friday, 11 June 2010. The meeting will include the 32nd sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the tenth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term...
IUCN |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
IUCN, June 2010 | IUCN urges Parties to reach an agreement on a REDD-plus mechanism that recognizes that avoiding greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation is a necessary component of achieving deep cuts in all sources of anthropogenic emissions in order to mitigate...
Stabroek News |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
OSLO, (Reuters) – Billionaire investor George Soros said yesterday he would guarantee $50 million to help slow deforestation and contain climate change, bolstering Norwegian plans for a partnership of rich and poor states to save forests. Soros announced the move a day before about 50...
Global Platform |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
A forthcoming editorial in the journal Global Environmental Change discusses three broad principles for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and members of local communities under REDD-plus actions.
The Redd Desk |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
A dimension that can greatly influence how international forest carbon policies work is the source of financing to pay for emission reductions. Compensation will likely come either from using part of the global carbon market a flexible compliance mechanism for those countries that face a mandatory...
The Jakarta Post |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The governments of Indonesia and Norway signed recently a US$1 billion partnership to cut Indonesian emissions from deforestation and forest degradation to resist climate change. Indonesia, the world’s third-largest forest nation with 120 million hectares, pledged a two-year suspension on...
NewsWire Canada |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
OTTAWA and VERNON, BC, June 7 /CNW/ - ENSYN TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND TOLKO INDUSTRIES LTD. announced today that they have formed a partnership to build the world's largest commercial fast pyrolysis plant in High Level, Alberta. The partnership, High North BioResources Limited Partnership, has been...
Rainforest Foundation UK |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008.
Climate-L |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
25 May 2010: The World Bank approved its first development policy loan dedicated to climate change mitigation and adaptation, in Indonesia.
Global Dashboard |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
Very interested to see the news today that City of London police have “arrested the director of a Merseyside-based business in connection with an alleged plan to pay Liberian officials $2.5m (£1.7m) in connection with land concessions the company hoped would earn it more than $2bn”.
The Jakarta Oost |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
The government says it has identified four forests to host potential pilot projects as part of a billion-dollar agreement signed by Indonesia and Norway to protect the country's natural forests and peatlands. The forests are in East Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, Papua and Riau. The government...
The Age |
vor 14 Jahre 5 months
TREE-planting schemes and other carbon-offset projects could be abandoned by organisations at the end of the month, another casualty of the federal government's delayed emissions trading scheme. Many of the carbon-offset programs that have flourished under the government's Greenhouse Friendly...