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UPM, Helsinki, 15 March 2011 at 11:00 EET) - UPM applies for FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification for its forests in Finland. At the same time UPM also extends its forest service portfolio to cover FSC-certification services to Finnish forest owners. UPM's forests and most of the...

The acquisition in North America is the next step in ITI’s strategy to become an industrial global leader in terms of presence in the key markets of Asia, Europe and America, efficiency and volumes of production. With the acquisition of the two Tolleson sawmills ITI’s global production capacity...

The timber harvesting volumes will increase by 30 %, as estimated by Rajap Nabiullin, the Minister for Forestry Complex of the Republic of Bashkortostan. This index was accepted by the Forest Plan and the  Program of Development of the regional Timber Industry Complex.  The total volume of...

POWELL RIVER, B.C., CANADA, Mar 14, 2011 — The Government of Canada today announced a series of important investments across the country, totalling $88 million, to protect jobs in Canada’s forest industry. John Weston, Member of Parliament for West Vancouver–Sunshine Coast–Sea to Sky Country, was...

BP has made a $680 million (£424 million) investment in Brazil with a purchase of one of the nation's leading biofuels companies. The British energy giant now owns 83 per cent of the shares of the Companhia Nacional de Açúcar e Álcool (CNAA), which is one of the world's leading producers of...

Germany, Mar 11, 2011 - Mr. Guido Fuchs has resigned from the position of Director of FSC Switzerland after 8 years in the organization. He will continue to provide project support until the new Director takes office on 1 June 2011.

Growing trees is nature’s way of absorbing carbon from the atmosphere.  So most would assume that the forest industry would be front and centre of the government’s climate change policy.  They’d be wrong.  The government’s carbon price to be introduced from July 2012 will rightly focus on the...

The principle that indigenous peoples and local communities have a right to give or withhold their Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to developments affecting their resources is not new. However, experience using FPIC in REDD+ implementation is still limited in the Asia-Pacific region....

here are a billion hungry people in the world and that number could rise as food insecurity increases along with population growth, economic fallout and environmental crises. But a roadmap to defeating hunger exists, if we can follow the course -- and that course involves ditching corporate-...