A German company is hoping to take control of the former AbitibiBowater paper mill in central Newfoundland, Natural Resources Minister Kathy Dunderdale revealed in the house of assembly Thursday afternoon. Responding to questions in the legislature, Dunderdale said Lott Paper is working with the...
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CBC News |
14 years 5 months ago
The National Business Review |
14 years 5 months ago
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is complex, confusing and difficult to get agreement on, but as New Zealand prepares for its impact from July 1 Climate Change Minister Nick Smith is confident the right balance has been struck. CHRIS ORMOND of NZPA reports. The ETS is a typical can't-please-...
Guide to New Zealand |
14 years 5 months ago
Wellington, June 25 NZPA - Agriculture Minister David Carter has promised the nation's farmers that they will not be made accountable for the greenhouse gas emissions through the Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS), unless trading partners are also feeling some of the financial pain...
Mongabay |
14 years 5 months ago
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) has condemned Malaysia's booming practice of converting tropical forests into rubberwood plantations, arguing that the conversion threatens Malaysia's biodiversity, endangered species, and releases significant greenhouse gas emissions...
Mongabay |
14 years 5 months ago
International Forestindustries |
14 years 5 months ago
This is an excerpt of the June/July 2010 release of InternationForestIndustries.com Magazine:
Wood Business |
14 years 5 months ago
Eucalyptus trees with a foreign gene that helps them withstand cold weather could become a new source of wood for pulp, paper, and biofuels in the Southern timber belt, said a report in the New York Times.
Google News |
14 years 5 months ago
KATHMANDU — Nepal has banned people from cutting down trees for two months after reports of massive deforestation in its lawless southern plains, a government spokesman said Friday. The government made the ruling after receiving reports that more than 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of forest...
Business Wire |
14 years 5 months ago
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CE2 Carbon Capital (CE2), one of the largest investors and owners of U.S. carbon commodities and carbon emissions reduction projects, has partnered with Dogwood Carbon Solutions (Dogwood), a developer of agriculture and forestry-based conservation projects, to...
EFI |
14 years 5 months ago
NEWFOREX meeting deals with the challenges of implementing the valuation of forest externalities Forest externalities are those forest goods and services which are not actively marketed, but which are also valuable other people than the forest owners. Often these externalities include...
FAO |
14 years 5 months ago
The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city...
Reuters |
14 years 5 months ago
* To pay about $53.7 mln for 230 mln shares * Says deal to help meet growing wood demand in China * Sino-Forest V-C to become CEO of Omnicorp on completion
Sci Dev |
14 years 5 months ago
[NAIROBI] Kenya has announced plans to establish a regional carbon emissions trading scheme to steer Africa's carbon market. This would hopefully position the country as the continent's carbon credit trade hub, finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta said in his budget speech to parliament earlier this...
Gisborne Herald |
14 years 5 months ago
NEW Zealand’s emissions trading scheme gives this region opportunities to make money, and will change the way marginal land is used. Carbon sequestering will change the way forests are managed and will make the establishment of unharvestable forests economically viable, two carbon farming...
Times of India |
14 years 5 months ago
Vietnam Net |
14 years 5 months ago
VietNamNet Bridge – On the occasion of an international conference on “Payments for Environmental Services and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD) in Hanoi from June 23-24, VietNamNet would like to introduce an article by Charlotte Streck, a renowned...
New Zealand Herald |
14 years 5 months ago
New Zealand's failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions has left taxpayers staring down the barrel of a Kyoto Protocol liability of at least $1 billion and possibly more than $5 billion, according to a book analysing National's emissions trading system.
Global Papermoney |
14 years 5 months ago
It is often assumed that use of paper grades intended for printing, particularly newsprint, has been dropping for some years in the developed world, due to replacement by electronic communication, mostly over the Internet. This has led to numerous statements by paper industry representatives and...
The Timberland Blog |
14 years 5 months ago
The pace of timberland transactions is still pretty slow but they are occurring (about 500,000 acres since my update last fall) and prices do not appear to have dropped below those of late last year. I think the 10% - 15% decline estimate (from the peak) is still pretty solid. In some places it...
Biomass Magazine |
14 years 5 months ago
Biomass has been in use at the University of Missouri power plant since 2005. The power plant boilers have been cofiring wood waste up to 5 percent with coal in the existing plant boilers, consuming between 5,000 and 6,000 tons of woody biomass this year.