Phil Burton calls this place a jungle. It's not the tropical Amazonian rainforest or even B.C.'s temperate rainforest, but a stand of lodgepole pine located off the Pelican Forest Service Road about an hour's drive southwest of Prince George. The federal forests researcher estimates the pines were...
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Vancouver Sun |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Vancouver Sun |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
The plan was simple: Log and sell as much dead pine as possible before it decayed or burned. But the environmental costs of the large-scale salvaging of Interior forests are still being tallied... The province sold the epidemic as unprecedented in North American history. Biblical plagues of...
Vancouver Sun |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Logging B.C.'s beetle-killed pine forests can, in theory, reduce the risk of a wildfire. But when fire ecologist Bob Gray visits a logging site, he can see just the opposite: a heightened fire risk because of so much uneconomic wood left on the ground. "There's more of a mess afterwards," he said...
Vancouver Sun |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Salvage logging of B.C.'s Interior lodgepole pine forests is having major consequences for wildlife by eliminating vast stretches of habitat used for activities such as feeding, hiding and keeping warm or cool. While species such as the moose - a "generalist" that eats various types of plants -...
CIFOR |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
The UNFCCC’s scientific sub-committee SBSTA has released a draft text on REDD+ that will go forward to a plenary session of the COP on Saturday for discussion and approval. Louis Verchot, CIFOR’s leading climate change scientist, said the text is robust and calls for transparent processes within...
International Forest Industries |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
New Zealand’s sawn timber exports to China have been ‘hammered’, while raw log shipments surged in the wake of Beijing’s efforts to cool the economy and amid increased sales by rival forestry nations such as Canada, according to an industry lobby group.Lumber exports fell 16 percent to $264 million...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Voluntary carbon credits were created to reduce CO2 in countries without existing carbon “caps." But European corporates also like them, looking to invest in local projects that are not always kosher under Kyoto. This special report from Ecosystem Marketplace explores existing programs’ limited...
New York Times |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
When State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corp., offered its first “high-quality green bond strategy” last month, it gave institutional investors a chance to hold segregated accounts that invest in fixed income instruments raising financing for projects meant...
Forest Carbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
June, 2011. Meyfroidt, P.; van Noordwijk, M.; Minang, P.A.; Dewi, S.; Lambin, E.F.. Policy Brief 25. ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. 4 pages* Summary
LAPress |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Peruvian indigenous organizations along with the Forest Peoples Program, an international non-profit that defends the rights of native forest-dwelling peoples, said in a recent report that carbon emission reduction programs tied to the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation,...
Forest Carbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Shares in firms set up to profit from efforts to curb pollution traded near all-time lows on Tuesday as the collapse of the carbon emissions market they depend on raised concerns about their future. Last week, the price of these certified emissions reductions (CERs) credits fell by 20% to below 5...
Environmental Finance |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Time is running out for key decisions on the financing of projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), said Abyd Karmali, global head of carbon emissions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. This week’s UN climate change meeting in Durban must decide if private...
Daily Mail |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
THE Zambia Institute of Environmental Management (ZIEM) has called for equity and transparency in the utilisation of the Green Climate Fund to enable developing countries effectively manage the effects of climate change. ZIEM executive director Morgan Katati said developing...
Reuters |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
(Reuters) - Rich nations are on track to deliver on their promise to supply $30 billion in short-term climate financing by the end of next year to help poor countries tackle global warming. But doubts emerged at the climate talks in Durban this week over whether donors will be able to ramp-up...
Reuters |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
(Reuters) - The global net loss of forest over 1990-2005 was smaller by a third than earlier estimated but deforestation still threatens environment and food security, the United Nation's food agency said on Wednesday unveiling new satellite-based data.
Forest Carbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
The Peruvian Amazon is the new global centre of “carbon piracy”, as banks, conservationists and entrepreneurs rush to snap up the legal rights to trade carbon, according to a report published today at the UN climate talks in Durban. More than 35 major projects covering around 7m hectares of...
Triple Pundit |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Heating and cooling, timber, water, food, habitat, energy, massive storehouses of carbon – forests provide an incredible amount of direct and indirect ecosystem services to humans, along with all other forms of life on earth. That’s especially true of tropical forests. Unfortunately, these services...
Micro Finance Monitor |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Proving the outcry that forests are shrinking due to increased urbanisation, industrialisation and rehabilitation, India has set its record straight with a modest increase in its forest cover.
CIFOR |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
REDD+ projects need to be ready to make upfront investments to help local communities to develop alternative sources of income before implementing other aspects of the scheme such as conditional payments for protecting forests, a scientist says. REDD+ developers are shifting their strategies...
Forest Carbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 11 months
Norway has been accused of climate hypocrisy in Indonesia, where it has won plaudits for financing forest protection even as its state pension fund allegedly secures even greater revenues from logging, plantations, mining and other environmentally destructive practices. Conservation groups say...