The watchword in the halls of this year’s UN climate summit is “balanced package.” It’s the oblique phrase referring to what might be possible as a final agreement at this year’s meeting, at least to those who don’t have unreasonable expectations on what can be achieved. What many hope can be...
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Ecosystem Marketplace |
13 years 11 months ago
11 December 2010 | CANCUN | After two weeks of intense negotiations, another Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has come and gone. Working through Friday until the early hours of Saturday morning, bleary eyed delegates jetted...
The Sydney Morning Herald |
13 years 11 months ago
A new climate change deal reached in Mexico has set up a global framework to pay to protect rainforests vital to the ecosystem, but held off on the controversial introduction of a market role. The deal aims to help developing nations fight deforestation by offering incentives to about 1.2 billion...
Timber Community |
13 years 11 months ago
Södra invests in manufacturing of textile pulp and the production will be based on a production line at Södra Cell Mörrum currently producing pulp. - The demand of renewable wood-based textile fibers will increase by replacing the cotton fiber and oil-based synthetic fibers, said Gunilla Saltin...
Forest Talk |
13 years 11 months ago
The most intensive and thorough report ever produced on the state of British Columbia‘s forests suggests sound laws and policies, including public reporting by an independent Forest Practices Board, are supporting sustainable forest management in British Columbia, Forests, Mines and Lands...
Boulder county business report |
13 years 11 months ago
BOULDER - Sustainable forestry company ECO2 Forests Inc. has plans for two joint-venture projects in Europe - one in Turkey, the other in Bulgaria. ECO2 Forests (Pinksheets: ECOF), with offices in Boulder and Queensland, Australia, signed an agreement with ECO PLUS Limited to grow a 1,200-acre...
RISI |
13 years 11 months ago
BRUSSELS, Dez. 6, 2010 (RISI) - An important technical discovery from researchers connected with Stellenbosch University in South Africa has helped eliminate a critical step in the production of ethanol from ligno-cellulose.
RISI |
13 years 11 months ago
BRUSSELS, Dez. 6, 2010 (RISI) - If the sunny and warm inauguration weather is a sign from above, the world's first plant for the production of a renewable motor fuel, BioDME, will be a sunshine story. In early September, 130 invitees from around the world came to Piteå, Sweden, to take part in...
The Vancouver Sun |
13 years 11 months ago
There are many things that distinguish "supernatural" British Columbia from other jurisdictions. But one of the most enduring of them is its abundance of publicly owned lands. While many of us may not realize it, about 94 per cent of B.C. is Crown or public land. And over the decades the wealth...
Solve Climate News |
13 years 11 months ago
CANCUN, MEXICO -- The prospect of a deal on forest protection at the Cancun climate talks has galvanized pressure groups at either end of the ideological axis to take common aim at keeping the UN out of the rainforests. On the one side are indigenous groups, who say the pact would add up to a...
Forest Talk |
13 years 11 months ago
The Northern Bioenergy Partnership has been created by the B.C. Bioenergy Network, Omineca Beetle Action Coalition, and local bioenergy companies. The business plan for the partnership was developed by Initiatives Prince George with hopes the partnership will promote Prince George and Northern...
Environmental Defense Fund |
13 years 11 months ago
Today marks the start of the second week of the U.N. climate conference in Cancún, and also the first day of negotiations on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). Environment ministers meeting about REDD+ in Cancún this week are expected to focus on four main...
Finnish Forestindustries Federation |
13 years 11 months ago
November 25, 2011 - The timber export duty issue, a matter that has hampered Russian-Finnish forest industry cooperation for quite some time, was resolved as part of WTO negotiations between Russia and the EU. //-->
SATIIM |
13 years 11 months ago
On Monday December 6, 2010, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM) with funding from the Global Environmental Facility Trust Fund, which supports the Development Marketplace 2009 Global Competition, launched a project in Toledo entitled “ Building Q'eqchi' Maya Capacity...
Business Wire |
13 years 11 months ago
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) has approved the first Mosaic REDD methodology after it successfully completed the dual validation process. Developed by Terra Global Capital, LLC, the methodology was designed to support the development of...
Reuters |
13 years 11 months ago
NOH-BEC, Mexico, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Community leaders managing a fragment of ancient Mexican jungle say their approach to logging precious hardwoods protects rare jaguar and may guide nearby U.N. climate talks seeking a forest blueprint. Community forest management means giving land ownership to...
Forest Carbon Portal |
13 years 11 months ago
Getting ready for a plane trip to Cancún or just want to know the inside story of what to watch and why it’s happening when it comes down to forest carbon policy? Here are a few key reading recommendations to get up to speed on the international climate negotiations.
Timber Community |
13 years 11 months ago
The US cables reveal the problem with illegally harvesting and how Chinese and Russian logging companies operates. According to the cables smugglers use different methods to illicitly export illegal timber, most of which are able to pass through customs inspections and established border...
Timber Community |
13 years 11 months ago
But the question is whether the Swedish economy can rely on the forest ahead? Danske Bank writes in its latest newsletter that Sweden managed relatively lightly through the financial crisis. According to teh bank the forest industry, with the help of a weak dollar, rescued Sweden.
PLOS One |
13 years 11 months ago