Norske Skog sells back part of its energy contract to Statkraft. Norske Skog has reached an agreement to sell back excess power in southern Norway to Statkraft. The sale encompasses an annual volume of 680 gigawatt hours and covers the period through the end of 2020. The transaction will be closed...
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Timber Community |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
Accointing Today |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged corporate leaders to back up their words about sustainable business practices with concrete actions at a KPMG-sponsored conference on sustainability. Ki-moon praised the growth of sustainability reporting by a growing number of corporations at the...
Forest Carbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
This publication is the report of the workshop titled “Decentralised Forest Governance: Beyond JFM” held on 14-15th October, 2011 in Bhubaneswar, India. The objectives of the workshop were:
Nicolas Institute |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
Healthy ecosystems provide many services to society, including water filtration, biodiversity habitat protection, and carbon sequestration. A number of incentive programs and markets have arisen to pay landowners for these services, raising questions about how landowners can receive multiple...
Space Daily |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
An interactive web tool has been developed to improve the accuracy and extent of global land use and forest cover information. The new 'Geo-Wiki' uses Google Earth and information provided by a global network of volunteers to fill in 'data gaps' and to verify existing land cover information....
Redding |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
California's call to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 means new revenue for timber landowners willing to play the carbon-offset market. Steven Brink of the California Forestry Association said the Global Warming Solutions Act, or Assembly Bill 32, is an opportunity for the industry. "The cap...
ABC Net |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
TONY EASTLEY: When the Prime Minister and the Tasmanian Premier signed a forestry agreement last year it appeared that an end was in sight to the protracted and bitter Tasmanian forestry debate. This morning however the deal would appear to be in tatters. Felicity Ogilvie reports from Hobart....
Your-Story |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
A billionaire investor has this week opted to put much of his cash in forestry investments, in a move that has been welcomed by alternative and ethical investment advocates, AAA.
Capital Press |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
ANDERSON, Calif. - Forestry's recognition as a carbon-friendly industry could provide lucrative opportunities for timberland owners in the emerging world of carbon credits. However, uncertainties in California's upcoming cap-and-trade regulations could make it costly and risky for companies to sign...
Kaieteur News Online |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
The Surinamese government has warned donors to stop treating the issue of eco-systems as mere handouts. John Goedschalk, of Suriname’s Climate Compatible Development Agency, made the call on Monday during the launch of the Guyana Shield Facility, a fund to protect the ecosystems in the Guyana...
ABC Net |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
A plan to make native forest waste eligible for renewable energy credits has angered the North Coast Environment Council A peak north coast environmental group has slammed a plan to give renewable energy status to native forest waste used to fuel power stations. Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott plans to...
InBar |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
The Food & Trees for Africa’s (FTFA) Bamboo for Africa programme has been certified under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)—the first VCS accreditation for bamboo in the world. The VCS is the most highly regarded international certification standard for carbon reduction projects and is one...
Eureka Net |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
By combining airborne laser technology, satellite mapping, and ground-based plot surveys, a team of researchers has produced the first large-scale, high-resolution estimates of carbon stocks in remote and fragile Madagascar. The group has shown that it is possible to map carbon stocks in rugged...
The Africa Report |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
What is private sector corruption? A flippant answer would be anything that the losing party in a job or tender selection process says it is, since there is that old saying that one person's corruption (or patronage, nepotism) is another's rightful meritocracy!1 Time for a re-evaluation and new...
Forest Talk |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
The Government of British Columbia announced today that all of Avatar Grove, a unique stand of old-growth cedars near Port Renfrew, is now protected in an expanded old growth management area. After a public review and comment period during fall 2011, the existing old-growth management area around...
Engineering News |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
Paper and pulp group Mondi on Thursday made an all-cash offer of €16.48 a share for the 17-million shares (34%) it does not already own in its Polish operation, Mondi Swiecie. The offer comprises a premium of 15.6% over the last three months’ average price of €14.26 a share and a premium of 4.1%...
WRI |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
The Carbon Canopy is a novel partnership among companies, landowners, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that seeks to leverage markets for ecosystem services to increase the area of southern U.S. forests certified as sustainably managed. The partnership aspires to sustain southern forests...
AllAfrica |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
Arusha — THE government plans to subsidize domestic Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) prices in order to make the commodity affordable to the majority. The Director of the Environment Division in the Prime Minister's Office, Dr Julius Ningu, said on Monday that the government was now planning to...
Silicon Republic |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
The clean-tech tax changes to the Finance Bill have been welcomed by the Green IFSC, which says Ireland’s Government is likely the first in the world to recognise forest carbon credits in tax legislation. Yesterday's announcement about Finance Bill 2012 will extend the range of carbon offsets that...
Reuters |
vor 12 Jahre 9 months
(Reuters) - Britain will urge businesses and governments to start accounting for natural capital as an additional way of measuring economic activity at a U.N. sustainability summit in June, its environment minister said on Thursday. This could mean moving towards a concept of GDP+, or measuring the...