BONN (IDN) - Reflecting profound concerns of developing countries, a new report has strongly criticised the World Bank group for promoting false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading, megadams, agrofuels and industrial monoculture tree plantations.
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Dear Editor, Jamaican Customs opened a shipping container in mid-March and discovered 122kg of cocaine in bags with a consignment of 130 logs. The Guyana Forestry Commission admitted knowledge of this shipment, apparently associated with a State Forest Permission assigned to Aroaima Forest...
Conserving forests as a means for countries to meet climate change targets is crucial to Africa’s participation in the world’s carbon markets, said Envirotrade Carbon Ltd.
Greenpeace today reacted to two recent cases of social conflicts between logging companies and local communities that have reportedly resulted in violent police interventions, arrests and reported abuses. Greenpeace is calling on the Democratic Republic of Congo' government to commit to upholding...
Maguire, Rowena (2010) The international regulation of sustainable forest management : doctrinal concepts, governing institutions and implementation. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysia received RM43 million in official development aid (ODA) from the European Union (EU) last year to promote legal timber trade and sustainable forest management. In a statement Friday, the EU Delegation to Malaysia said the EU was also funding projects...
Brazzaville - The President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, defended on Friday the establishment of partnerships between the sustainable forest management and the development of the countries located in the three tropical forest basins of the world. The Congolese statesman said...
30 May 2011: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a sustainable forest management project in Cambodia, which aims to promote forest conservation, benefit the rural poor, and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Finnish forest product company UPM has signed a conservation easement agreement with the State of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on 76,000 hectares of UPM-owned forest land in Northern Minnesota. The agreement secures the future economic and recreational use of the company's forests...
Governments will today be called on to help fund tropical forested countries design and implement sustainable forest management plans, as a major new report highlights that despite increased global efforts, less than 10 per cent of land which countries plan to maintain as tropical forest is being...
Even as countries cite farm expansion as main cause of forest loss, research finds gap between climate 'promises' and farm policies BONN, GERMANY (8 JUNE 2011)—The majority of countries participating in a major global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions caused by forest destruction cite...
A scheme to pay people in developing countries to curb carbon emissions from deforestation is plagued by 'leakage' — trees that aren't cut down in one forest are just cut down in another to provide people with the resources they would have foregone. But a study by an international team of...
The price growth took place in January and March 2011, while in February the prices decreased. The average price for chip-boards grew by 25.4 % in the first quarter of 2011 as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The most significant was the increase in the average price for...
TORONTO, June 3, 2011 /CNW/ - Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE) ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company"), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, today commented on the share price decline on June 2, 2011 as a result of the allegations made in a 'report' issued on a website by a short...
MONGABAY.COM: 90% of tropical forests managed poorly or not at all More than 90 percent of tropical forests are managed poorly or not at all, says a new assessment by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).
Togo, Nigeria and Ghana have the biggest rates of deforestation out of 65 nations, according to a study described by its authors as the most comprehensive analysis of tropical forests.
The credits will be used to create a new sawmilling production at the territory of the plant and to implement the project «The upgrading of the woodworking facilities and the creation of forestry complexes». The payment guarantor on credits for the banks shall be OJSC Solombala Pulp-and-Paper...
Wood costs for the global pulp industry have risen 17 per cent in the past two years, according to market reports. Global market pulp production increased by seven per cent in 2010, which, in turn, boosted demand for wood raw material and pushed up prices for wood chips and pulp logs in most...