Finland, 21 Dec 2010, Jukka Pahta, 44, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Pöyry PLC. He will become a member of the Group Executive Committee of Pöyry PLC and report to Heikki Malinen, President and CEO of Pöyry PLC. Jukka Pahta will be based at the Pöyry...
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PaperIndex Times |
13 years 11 months ago
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 11 months ago
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec.20, 2010 -- Western European demand for coated papers has matured and the post recession rebound in demand is over. According to RISI's new European Coated Papers Risk of Closure Study, overcapacity of both coated woodfree and coated mechanical papers has reached 1.2...
Forest Trends |
13 years 11 months ago
Forest carbon payments – payments for restoring or planting forest, or for preventing forest degradation or deforestation – can help to prevent and reverse forest loss. However, forest carbon transactions today raise many challenging issues for participants, including difficult legal questions...
Forest Trends |
13 years 11 months ago
Developing forest carbon projects is complex and often daunting for project proponents, whether they are from the private sector, civil society organizations or government agencies. Successful project development requires complying with rigorous requirements for analyzing and documenting carbon...
Forest Trends |
13 years 11 months ago
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanisms are one of the best short term alternatives for significantly reducing green house gas emissions, thus contributing to minimize the impacts of global climate changes.
Timber Community |
13 years 11 months ago
Södra, the Russian bank VEB and Angara Paper have signed a Letter of Intent regarding a pulp mill project in Russia with a capacity of 1.1 million ton softwood pulp per year.
Renewable Energy World |
13 years 11 months ago
It has been difficult for the US federal government to pass sweeping legislation that will spur renewable energy development, but California's new cap and trade program shows that states can lead.
Building Products |
13 years 11 months ago
Wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council will continue to be the only kind qualifying for LEED points, after a motion to open it up to other certification programs failed to win a two-thirds majority from members of the U.S. Green Building Council. Of the 965 members who voted, 55%...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
13 years 11 months ago
Billions have been pledged to fund schemes that slow climate change by saving trees and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), but the private sector won’t come on board in a big way unless forest carbon starts to behave more like established...
RISI |
13 years 11 months ago
BRUSSELS, Dez. 13, 2010 (RISI) - In part 1 of a two part series, Graeme Rodden, Executive Editor of Pulp & Paper International, examines why Mondi is at WWF's top of the tree when it comes to evironmental practice in pulp and paper. Earlier this year, Mondi was rated the Number 1 company...
Forest Talk |
13 years 11 months ago
On Friday night an explosion blasted the Pacific BioEnergy wood pellet plant in Prince George, British Columbia. The blast created numerous spot fires that were fought by 17 firefighters from 3 local fire halls. Damage to the structure was limited by the sprinkler system, but is still reported...
Kaieteur News |
13 years 11 months ago
Angered by a report which suggested that the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is based on advice that could be described as ‘junk economics,” President Bharrat Jagdeo has accused Rainforest Foundation UK of being stuck in the colonial-era mentality. International consultants, McKinsey and...
Tropical Forestgroup |
13 years 11 months ago
Tonight at 7:07 pm, the California Air Resources Board voted to adopt the cap and trade regulations for AB32, California's global warming law. The final vote passed 9 -1.
Forum for the Future |
13 years 11 months ago
The market for carbon as a traded commodity consists of two main sectors:
Yale University |
13 years 11 months ago
Having had a chance to examine the REDD text of the Cancun Agreement, I find it a relatively positive step forward that manages to avoid some, but not all, of the misperceptions and biases that I encountered while attending REDD-oriented side events during my time at the COP. Below are some...
Washington Post |
13 years 11 months ago
What exactly is the hold-up in terms of Norway's forestry assistance to Guyana, which Guyana's president Bharrat Jagdeo complained about last week during a panel sponsored by Avoided Deforestation Partners in Cancun?
Carbon Positive |
13 years 11 months ago
ARB, AB32: UN climate talks in Cancún balked at the question of carbon markets for the finance of an agreed global forest protection system, leaving further uncertainty over the role of carbon markets after 2012 and whether forests will be a part of them. But meantime California is forging...
Project Syndicate |
13 years 11 months ago
CANCÚN – The official communiqué from the Cancún climate-change conference cannot disguise the fact that there will be no successor to the Kyoto Protocol when it expires at the end of 2012. Japan, among others, has withdrawn its support for efforts simply to extend the Kyoto treaty. This sounds...
Carbon Positive |
13 years 11 months ago
An agreement on tropical forest protection is being hailed as a significant success of the UN climate conference in Cancún, finding broad support among major international social and environmental NGOs. The agreement creates a framework for REDD+, a global mechanism to reduce deforestation and...
13 years 11 months ago
In response to increasing public outcries over his complete mismanagement of forests in the public interest, Forest Minister Pat Bell is frequently taking refuge behind forest certification programs. But are third-party stamps of approval really, as Bell claims, a guarantee that our forests -- a...