Shanxi, Dec. 28, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- A newly planted forest will neutralize carbon dioxide emissions from a UN climate change conference as China ups its efforts to combat climate change, an official said here Tuesday.
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Yale 360 |
13 years 11 months ago
Flying over the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, rainforest stretches like a sea of green, broken only by rugged mountain ranges and winding rivers. The verdant canopy shows little sign of human influence. But as you near Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua, the tree cover...
CRIEnglish |
13 years 11 months ago
Panama will receive 8.9 million U.S. dollars from the World Bank and a UN emission-cut program to mitigate the impact of climate change in the country, the National Environmental Authority said Monday.
Mongabay |
13 years 11 months ago
With commodity prices surging, lending to Brazilian farmers for tractors, harvesters and plows reached 8.2 billion reais ($4.8 billion) for the July through November 2010 period, a 64 percent increase since the same period last year and the fastest pace since 2004, reports Bloomberg.
Fox News |
13 years 11 months ago
Mexico City – Norway is providing Mexico with $15.3 million to fund environmental monitoring efforts aimed at reducing emissions of pollutants and slowing deforestation, the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat said.
Greenwood Management |
13 years 11 months ago
The values of eucalyptus investments in Brazil are set to rise with the building of a new biomass power station, due for completion at the end of 2012. The Dow Chemical Company will develop the power generation system at its Aratu Complex production facility, where it will operate alongside...
Forest Talk |
13 years 11 months ago
The provincial government of New Brunswick will be taking a series of actions to strengthen and renew the province’s forest industry. An action plan has been drafted based on recommendations from a stakeholder summit held in November. Natural Resources Minister Bruce Northrup announced the...
Forestry Nepal |
13 years 11 months ago
Title: Forests for food security and livelihood sustainability: Policy problems and opportunities for small farmers in Nepal Authors: Bhubaneswor Dhakal Authors: Hugh Bigsby Authors: Ross Cullen Date: 2011 Source: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 35(1):86-115 ...
ITTO |
13 years 11 months ago
The latest EU trade data indicates that imports of tropical hardwood logs into the region have continued to fall during the course of 2010. Overall imports during the first nine months of 2010 amounted to only 253,300 cu.m, 22% down compared to the same period in the previous year. The big...
RUNA |
13 years 11 months ago
The negotiations between forest holding Altailes and representatives of Ribegla company took place in Altai Territory. The issue of possible future cooperation between Altai Territory and Poland in the sphere of wood waste utilization was discussed during the negotiations. The Polish partners...
Timber Community |
13 years 11 months ago
When the fund company Banco would make their environmental funds carbon-neutral, they discovered that two forest companies accounted for half of the funds' carbon dioxide emissions writes dn.se. The forest companies, SCA and Stora Enso looked like real environmental villains in comparison with...
Timber Community |
13 years 11 months ago
Swedish Forest Society's timber manager Magnus Juntikka is critical to the speculation about the lower Russian wood tariffs. - Very little show that the duties on raw timber will be lowered to 2 euros per cubic meter as we have read in the press. Rather, he believes the market price will be...
Flat Head Beacon |
13 years 11 months ago
A recent study commissioned by the National Alliance of Forestry Owners states that a new Environmental Protection Agency rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions will severely limit woody biomass renewable energy projects if implemented as scheduled in January. In May, the EPA issued a final...
Paperindex News |
13 years 11 months ago
GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALBERTA,CANADA, Dec 23, 2010 — The Government of Canada has announced an investment in Weyerhaeuser Company Limited to help it become more productive, competitive and sustainable. The Honourable Rob Merrifield, Minister of State for Transport, and Chris Warkentin, Member of...
Climate Voices |
13 years 11 months ago
The forests in the Congo Basin, the second largest area of tropical forest in the world, are receiving increasing interest. Enormous amounts of carbon are stored in these forests, meaning that REDD proponents are increasingly looking at these forests to “offset” continued pollution in the...
Dayton Daily News |
13 years 11 months ago
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s 21 state forests are managed well enough to join an elite group of public forest lands that are certified as sustainable, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources said Thursday. The environmental and social standards under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative program have been...
World Resources Institute |
13 years 11 months ago
How does the new agreement on REDD set the stage for halting the destruction and degradation of forests?
The Guardian |
13 years 11 months ago
We were accused of being obstructionist, obstinate and unrealistic. But we feel an enormous obligation to set aside diplomacy and tell the truth
Forest Talk |
13 years 11 months ago
When the province of Ontario announced a plan in November 2009 to free up 11 million cubic metres of unused wood fibre in the province through a wood supply competition, over 100 value-added wood projects submitted an application. The wood supply competition for the unused wood fibre has been...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 11 months ago
Helsinki, Finland, 21 Dec 2010 – UPM has prepaid all of the Uruguay Fray Bentos pulp mill investment project loans of USD 372 million. The security arrangements relating to the project loans will be released. The prepayment reduces financing costs and simplifies the Group's financing structure.