Guyana’s efforts to draw attention to the value of standing forests in the climate change arena is drawing attention from peer countries facing similar challenges. The Democratic Republic of the Congo which is home to the Congo Basin has sent a representative of their Government to study Guyana’s...
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Kieteur News Online |
14 years 3 months ago
Engineering News |
14 years 4 months ago
Paper and pulp producer Mondi expects to report considerably higher interim earnings, saying that its headline earnings a share for the six months ended June 30, 2010, were likely to be between 22c a share and 27c a share, compared with a 0,8c a share headline loss the year before. Basic earnings a...
Australien Geographic |
14 years 4 months ago
AMONG THE MANY NASTY things that humans are doing to the environment, few rank worse than destroying tropical forests. Rainforests sustain an astonishing diversity of species and keep our planet liveable by limiting soil erosion, reducing floods, maintaining natural water cycles, and stabilising...
New York Times |
14 years 4 months ago
FOR decades, some university endowments, pension funds and other big investors have put part of their money to work in the woods. They’ve bought large tracts of timberland, viewing them as an asset class separate from stocks, bonds and other forms of real estate.
Center for Investigative Reporting |
14 years 4 months ago
A recent ad campaign aimed at gaining Midwestern senators support for US climate change legislation has backfired in Brazil. The ad by the National Farmers Union and Avoided Deforestation Partners, an alliance of major environmental organizations and utilities, advocates for farm state senators to...
CA independent voter network |
14 years 4 months ago
California is poised to become the nation’s first state to ban single-use plastic and paper bags at supermarkets and convenience stores. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, breaking with his usual practice of not taking a position on legislation until it reaches his desk, praised passage of the measure...
Focus Online |
14 years 4 months ago
The combination of a gutted Forest Service, vast areas of not sufficiently restocked forestlands, a quirky loophole in the Kyoto Protocol and a provincial government ideologically driven to sell off public assets has created the perfect opportunity for forest industrialists to burn down the last...
RUNA |
14 years 4 months ago
According to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Russia is to come to the terms in the field of export duties on roundwood. Moreover, Russia itself offered the EU to significantly increase export duties on deciduous wood. Russia is ready to increase export duties by tens %. It will...
Greenwod Management |
14 years 4 months ago
Ten-year figures for the Brazilian timber industry show that production in the Amazon has fallen by 50 per cent. The figures were published in a study carried out by the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) and the Institute of Man and Environment (Imazon), entitled 'Logging Activities in the Brazilian...
Media Newswire |
14 years 4 months ago
Washington - During a meeting with Chilean media in Santiago this month, the United States' special envoy on climate change, Todd Stern, was peppered with questions about last year's United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen and what the world should expect for the talks in Cancún, Mexico,...
Greenwod Management |
14 years 4 months ago
The Irish Parliament is calling on the EU to agree that the country can used forest carbon sinks to offset its non-Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) emissions. A committee at the parliament – known as the Oireachtas – has drawn up a response to the EU Commission’s Green Paper on Protecting Europe’s...
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Forestry Invest |
14 years 4 months ago
Turning income into capital without taxation in this world is like trying to spin straw into gold, impossible unless you know Rumpelstiltskin. Well as it turns out he and I are on quite friendly terms and it was he who introduced me to forestry investments. Most governments are eager to support any...
Mongabay |
14 years 4 months ago
Not even intense international pressure, the BP oil spill, worsening floods, or the fact that the last six months have been the warmest on record globally was enough to push US climate legislation through the Senate. In the end the legislation died without a single Republican supporting it and a...
UN-REDD |
14 years 4 months ago
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), as part of the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD Programme), is developing a project to systematically analyze literature on methods used to measure and assess...
Climate-L |
14 years 4 months ago
July 2010: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has published a brief describing its investment programme for sustainable forest management (SFM) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, conservation, sustainable management of forests and...
14 years 4 months ago
I chose an article from The Japan Times again, which was published back on 24 January 2010. The article may be located here (or here).
Stabroek News |
14 years 4 months ago
I had indicated in last week’s column that I would treat with three particular aspects of global climate funding (aid) as I wrap up for now, my analysis of the LCDS, the Guyana – Norway Agreement and associated arrangements, as well as several environmental topics related to global warming and...
Desertification Blog |
14 years 4 months ago
Read at : Forest Policy Info Mailing List <forests-l@lists.iisd.ca> New Casebook of On-the-Ground REDD Project Experience
Global PaperMoney |
14 years 4 months ago
Most dividend announcements are in the range of pennies to several dollars, so when a company declares a special dividend of USD 5.6 billion, it tends to grab your attention, and that of shareholders.
Southern Courier |
14 years 4 months ago
Every flush of your loo affects our environment and while low-flush toilets have helped some households save 35000 litres of water a year, it took an Eastern Suburbs man to tackle the toilet-paper dilemma. Saved A Tree co-founder Damien Scarf, a Vaucluse resident, said global toilet-paper use...