Monster monsoon rains may have loosened the mud and rock that buried and killed more than 1,000 people in the northwestern Chinese Province of Gansu over the weekend, but the mudslide in Zhouqu was more than a natural disaster. Official records show that government-run lumber companies cut 313,000...
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UN-REDD |
14 years 3 months ago
The UN-REDD Programme has been active over the past few months, in convening and engaging with partners from around in the world to advance ideas and common understandings of governance issues related to REDD+.
Euro Investor |
14 years 3 months ago
Developed by Terra Global Capital, LLC in partnership with Community Forestry International, the pioneering Mosaic REDD methodology submitted
American Carbon Registry |
14 years 3 months ago
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, welcomes feedback from its members, project proponents and other interested parties on the ACR Methodology for REDD – Avoiding Planned Deforestation. This methodology is applicable only to the REDD sub-...
The Guardian |
14 years 3 months ago
Call it a hot topic. A study suggesting that intentional forest blazes could significantly cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from wildfires in the Western United States has prompted a piquant scholarly quarrel. The exchange highlights the challenge forest managers may face in balancing plans to...
TVNZ |
14 years 3 months ago
Foreign-owned "carbon foresters" have ambitions to turn a fifth of New Zealand sheep and beef farmland into forests and that will devastate many rural towns, the national farmers' lobby says. Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said the organisation strongly believed that farm forestry was...
New York Times |
14 years 3 months ago
EL MIRADOR, Guatemala — Great sweeps of Guatemalan rain forest, once the cradle of one of the world’s great civilizations, are being razed to clear land for cattle-ranching drug barons. Other parts of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Central America’s largest protected area, have been burned down by...
Carbon Positive |
14 years 3 months ago
Tucked away on the bottom of the world, New Zealand is showing bigger developed nations how its done when it comes to tackling greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change. The first jurisdiction outside Europe to take the plunge on a nation-wide mandatory carbon pricing scheme, New Zealand has gone...
RUNA |
14 years 3 months ago
Novye Lesnye Technologies (New Timber Technologies, St. Petersburg) is to invest over RUR11.8 mln (€ 300 th.) in construction of a mill for advanced timber processing in the Arkhangelsk region. The mill is to produce wooden boards and chipboards with annual capacity making up 250 th. cubic meters...
The Guardian |
14 years 3 months ago
You report that "a British company's proposal to rent out one-fifth of Liberia's forests for carbon offsetting could have bankrupted the impoverished west African state" (UK firm's carbon offset deal 'could have bankrupted Liberia', 24 July). While this was certainly accurate reporting, it also...
The News Tribune |
14 years 3 months ago
The company that wants to build a controversial wood-burning power plant near Shelton has signed a fuel-supply contract with Mason County’s largest private timberland owner – Green Diamond Resource Co. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but Adage spokesman Tom DePonty said the agreement...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 3 months ago
The Copenhagen Accord recognized the need for a mechanism to funnel money into projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation while promoting conservation, enhancement of forest carbon stocks and sustainable forest management (REDD+). Maria Bendana digs...
UN-REDD |
14 years 3 months ago
Peter Holmgren, Director of Climate, Energy and Tenure Division and UN-REDD Programme Coordinator at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), explains the challenges ahead and key steps when it comes to setting-up a national monitoring system for REDD+.
Carbon Positive |
14 years 3 months ago
The latest session of UN climate talks in Bonn last week have only consolidated widespread apprehension that the 194 nations are still years away from their goal – a new comprehensive climate agreement to limit global warming to plus-2 degrees or perhaps less.
BBC |
14 years 3 months ago
Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar. Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words...
What they think |
14 years 3 months ago
Yep. That’s right. Recycling doesn’t save trees. That’s the position of Roger Dziengelski, a Certified Forester and VP of Continuous Improvement and External Operations for Finch Paper, LLC in upstate New York.
EFI |
14 years 3 months ago
The many wildfires in Russia which are currently raging, in particular in the Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and Ryazan regions, follow an unprecedented heat wave with temperatures reaching past 38C. The devastation caused by the fires is showing to be disastrous, it has claimed over 50 lives and...
ProPrint |
14 years 3 months ago
As European paper-making continues to falter, the Asian superpower is growing capacity at a great rate.