Obama's climate change guy Todd Stern has just wrapped up a tour of Latin America. It wasn't vacation: more like a critical lobbying opportunity. U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern traveled with Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela to Chile,...
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Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 4 months ago
22 July 2010 | In the March edition of SinergiA, a quarterly newsletter on environmental services in Latin America, Jacob Olander, Director of The Katoomba Ecosystem Services Incubator (a project of Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends), takes a long, hard look at the future of REDD...
Mongabay |
14 years 4 months ago
Scientists convening in Bali expressed a range of concerns over a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change through forest conservation, but some remained hopeful the idea could deliver long-term protection to forests, ease the transition to a low-carbon economy, and generate benefits to...
RUNA |
14 years 4 months ago
Statistics: wood processing in the first half of 2010
14 years 4 months ago
13 July 2010: The High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, co-chaired by Prime Ministers Meles Zenawi (Ethiopia) and Jens Stoltenberg (Norway), held its second meeting on 12-13 July 2010, in New York, US.
14 years 4 months ago
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UNDP |
14 years 4 months ago
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD Programme) is a collaboration between FAO, UNDP and UNEP. A multi-donor trust fund was established in July 2008 that allows donors to pool resources and...
International Forestindustries |
14 years 4 months ago
The AU$2 billion Penola Pulp Mill project in South Australia, shelved during the global recession, has been revitalized since The Commonwealth Bank recently came on board to help raise capital costs for the 750,000 tonnes/year mill, The Advertiser reported on 5 July. The bank is also helping Greg...
International Forestindustries |
14 years 4 months ago
China’s potential fibre-supply gap (the difference between total demand and total domestic supply) is projected to reach approximately 150 million m3 (roundwood equivalent) by 2015 - or a volume that is more than the entire Canadian timber harvest in 2009 - a strong indication that China’s wood...
Forest Talk |
14 years 4 months ago
omtar Corporation and FPInnovations today announced that they have formed a new joint venture company to build the world's first one metric ton per day commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demonstration plant at the Domtar Windsor, Quebec pulp and paper mill site. Construction will begin in...
NewsWire |
14 years 4 months ago
WASHINGTON, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a letter steered by Congressmen Kurt Schrader (D-OR) and Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to the U.S. Green Building Council, 79 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing 35 different states, have urged the organization to "accept all credible...
Dead Tree Edition |
14 years 4 months ago
The Internal Revenue Service may have handed U.S. pulp and paper companies a multibillion-dollar gift by ruling that black liquor produced in 2009 is eligible for an even more lucrative tax credit than the one claimed by manufacturers last year. The June 28 ruling contradicts previous guidance from...
Forest Talk |
14 years 4 months ago
It seems that forestry employment numbers bottomed out last year in British Columbia and may now be making a rebound. Here are some forestry job stats from British Columbia: 2005 – 79,700 2006 – 81,617 2007 – 84,275 2008 – 64,917 2009 – 51,958 2010 (Jan to May) – 55,200
Global Policy Journal |
14 years 4 months ago
The Governments of Japan and Papua Guinea chose the week of the football World Cup finals to kick an easily avoidable own goal in the international process designed to tackle deforestation.
Engineering News |
14 years 4 months ago
JSE-listed Sappi announced on Thursday that its Southern African unit would consolidate its paper and paper packaging businesses to strengthen its ability to meet customer requirements and to develop new business opportunities. Sappi Fine Paper South Africa and Sappi Kraft would merge to become...
Stabroek News |
14 years 4 months ago
The fund into which Norway is to funnel forest protection money is to be set up by the end of this month after which Oslo will deliver its first tranche of US$30M. According to a GINA release, President Bharrat Jagdeo and Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg yesterday announced the...
The Analyst |
14 years 4 months ago
Trucks loaded with undressed timber are on the move again around Buchanan in Grand Bassa county, south-east Liberia. The dust recalls the not-so-distant time when the timber trade was synonymous with war. Liberia's rainforests are being primed as a lucrative and legal industry. Electronic tags...
The Globe and Mail |
14 years 4 months ago
Pine trunks rumble down conveyors and sawdust clouds the air. The noise inside the sawmill nearly deafens, but in this remote town of 3,500 people, some 700 kilometres north of Vancouver, there are few sounds as welcome as the buzz and clatter of a mill back at work.
BBC |
14 years 4 months ago
Businesses can and should take a key role in stemming biodiversity loss around the world, a report concludes. The latest report from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Teeb) project argues that many sectors have a stake in protecting nature. A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)...
All Africa |
14 years 4 months ago
National Technical Committee on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) has been inaugurated. While inaugurating the committee members, Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, said the inauguration marks another milestone in Nigeria's efforts towards implementing...