The voluntary carbon market climbed to record volumes of emissions reductions last year, bouncing back from worldwide recession on the back of corporate social responsibility demand and the rise of forest-based offset supply. This picture emerges from the State and Trends of the Voluntary Carbon...
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Carbon Positive |
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NEPCON |
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At an Environmental Finance conference this month, financers signalled strong interest to invest in forest carbon projects. Given that imminent investment is needed, how close are we to a framework that propels financers to back forestry? For the second year running, key actors from the finance...
Paper Index Times |
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EFI |
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EFI |
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Recently launched, the Forest Products Price Information Portal offers various users ease in searching for information on forest products prices, specifically in Europe, but also worldwide. Users can search by product category (industrial roundwood, pulp and paper, sawnwood, wood energy, wood...
RUNA |
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Global demand for softwood lumber increased by about 18 percent in 2010. This came after a year when wood consumption worldwide was the lowest it had been in almost 50 years. This upward trend in consumption has continued thus far in 2011, with total volume consumed being more than 20 percent...
The Guardian |
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Mongabay |
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Implementation costs of REDD are higher in Tanzania than commonly acknowledged. Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) must incorporate the implementation cost of programs to meet resource demands of local people in order to be successful,...
Climate-I |
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31 May 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released its annual report, titled "Focus on Forests: Time to Act," which includes eight stories outlining CIFOR's global work.
Timber Community |
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Mongabay |
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Tropical forests across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia stored 247 gigatons of carbon — more than 30 years' worth of current emissions from fossil fuels use — in the early 2000s, according to a comprehensive assessment of the world's carbon stocks.
Engineering News |
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Paper and packaging group Mondi remained confident that the company would maintain an acceptable broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) rating following the demerger and the separate listing of Mondi Packaging South Africa (MPSA) as Mpact on the JSE, group corporate affairs manager Lora...
Scientific American |
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A landmark forest protection ruling by Indonesia might be good for investors trying to save carbon-rich forests, but only if a ban is enforced and progress is made in using the market to save the environment. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed an order this month...
RUNA |
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RUNA |
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The private investments to the timber industry complex of the Perm Territory up to 2014 will amount to 25 bln rubles. This money will be raised owing to the implementation of priority investment projects in the sphere of forest exploitation in such companies as OOO "Capital-3", JSC...
The Moscow Times |
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UGRA NATIONAL PARK, Kaluga Region — Viktor Grishenkov uses the weight of his spade to open a slit in the sandy ground, inserts a 30-centimeter oak seedling into the hole and packs the earth tight around it with his foot. “All right. Come back in a hundred years and see how it’s going.” He takes...
The White House Press |
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Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama reaffirm our commitment to changing the lives of the 1.2 billion poor people in the world today. Recent success and new technologies provide hope and opportunities to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Forest Carbon Asia |
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Date: May, 2011 Authors: Unna Chokkalingam & S. Anuradha Vanniarachchy Publication Type: Report
Paperindex Times |
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Montreal, Canada, May 26, 2011 – Forest products industry CEOs from around the world see an important opportunity ahead as a more competitive and significantly transformed industry emerges from the recent global economic downturn. This assessment came at the conclusion of International Council of...