The construction of woodworking plant for processing of low-grade timber and production of wood particle boards and MDF will be jointly conducted with the company «Kastamonu Entergre». The production will be launched at the territory of exclusive economic zone «Alabuga». The project cost is...
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Policy Note Canada |
13 years 7 months ago
Does the provincial government have a coherent plan to address the exponentially deepening forest health crisis in our province? Evidently not, as outlined by two scientists in a sobering critique of provincial government forest policy (or the lack thereof) published in today’s Vancouver Sun.
13 years 7 months ago
April 8th, 2011: The administration and care of British Columbia's publicly owned forestlands - some 60 million hectares, an area larger than France - is unstable and in deep trouble. The shifting of forest governance among three ministries in less than a year, following a decade of deregulation,...
Newswire CA |
13 years 7 months ago
April 8 /CNW/ - "By shutting out the North, the Ontario government has just put another nail in the coffin of our province's once-thriving forest sector," says the leader of Ontario's largest forestry union. That reaction from Kim Ginter, Ontario Regional Vice-President of the Communications,...
Forestry Investment BLOG |
13 years 7 months ago
Recent trends indicate that there have been significant growths in Canadian forestry from Chinese investors.
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 7 months ago
South Africa, April 7, 2011 - Mondi Group today announced its intention to separate its interest in Mondi Packaging South Africa (MPSA) via a demerger whereby all the ordinary shares in MPSA held by Mondi Limited will be distributed to the Mondi Limited ordinary shareholders. MPSA would be listed...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 7 months ago
Finland, April 7, 2011 - The forest industry purchased one million cubic metres of timber from private forests in March, almost a third more than in February. Birch pulpwood must be imported, because the supply in Finland is insufficient. Demand for timber is good and there’s particular interest...
Demerara Waves |
13 years 7 months ago
Guyana Chronicle Online |
13 years 7 months ago
BARAMA Company Limited yesterday gave assurance that it will recommence plywood operations for local consumption in June and for overseas by December, as it seeks to re-employ some of the displaced workers sent home after the closure of the plywood plant.
Kaieteur News Online |
13 years 7 months ago
The Alliance for Change on April 1, met with Norway’s Environment Minister, Erik Solheim, and his team during his visit to Guyana to express their concerns. The meeting was described as very fruitful. Alliance For Change Presidential Candidate, Khemraj Ramjattan, yesterday told media operatives...
The Syndey Morning Herald |
13 years 7 months ago
A SYDNEY carbon credits company thought to have been running some of the world's biggest offsets deals appears to be a fake, shifting paper certificates instead of saving forests and cutting greenhouse emissions. Shift2neutral says it has made high-profile events such as the Australian PGA golf...
UPI |
13 years 7 months ago
IBIDAN, Nigeria, April 7 (UPI) -- Farming of crops like cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degradation of West Africa's tropical forest area, a study says. Cocoa production in West Africa is an important economic activity and a source of income for about 2...
American Progress |
13 years 7 months ago
Lawmakers continue to debate the fiscal year 2011 budget. As we approach the next showdown this week over another temporary extension of the continuing resolution, a final resolution of the 2011 budget, or a government shutdown, the top climate issue in this debate is whether the Environmental...
Reuters |
13 years 7 months ago
(Reuters) - Global consulting firm McKinsey on Thursday played down suggestions that it had underestimated the costs to farmers and industry of making cuts in carbon emissions. Governments around the world want to know the cost of low-carbon technologies to choose the cheapest path to fight...
Forest Talk |
13 years 7 months ago
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Bio-pathways Partnership Network aimed at exploring new business ventures that will help exploit the economic opportunities of the emerging bio-age. Network participants will come from such sectors as...
First Science |
13 years 7 months ago
IBADAN, NIGERIA (7 April 2011)—Low-input farming for cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degredation of West Africa's tropical forest area, according to a new study by researchers at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Center...
The Guardian |
13 years 7 months ago
It is a spectacle of savage beauty: splintered stumps and trunks lie like battlefield corpses between soaring oak and lime trees. Ochre-fringed bracket fungus feasts on the dead wood, while the first green shoots of spring pierce the leaf mold, amid the tracks of wolves and bison.
World Agroforestry Centre |
13 years 7 months ago
Investments in agricultural research and development, including agroforestry and community forestry, are important for maintaining the livelihoods of many forest-dependent people in developing countries and should not be overlooked in the REDD+ debate, according to a working paper by the land...
Brunei Direct |
13 years 7 months ago
Mexico City - The Minister of Development, Pehin Orang Kaya Indera Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Suyoi bin Haji Osman, together with officials from the Ministry of Development as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade attended the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change '...