The next decade should see a rising wave of investment in green funds, leading financiers are predicting. Research firm Prequin said green investment funds have gathered $12 billion to spend worldwide, with a further $26.7 billion on the horizon. The company's 2010 Private Equity Review said...
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Yubanet |
14 years 6 months ago
May 27, 2010 - It could be the cheapest way to save the planet from climate change. Western governments and corporations want to shut down a major source of carbon dioxide emissions by paying the people who destroy forests to desist. But the dream could turn into a nightmare, in which Western...
Making it happen Tanzania |
14 years 6 months ago
It is no longer debated that the world climate is still changing fast and is the most pressing issues of this generation, which cause different impacts on human beings as well as its surroundings. Increasing regional concentrations of aerosol particulates and massive consumption of carbon...
The Worldbank |
14 years 6 months ago
Cologne, May 26, 2010—The latest annual report from the World Bank on the global carbon market showed that in 2009 it grew to $144 billion, up 6% from 2008 despite enduring its most challenging year to date. The global economic crisis negatively impacted both demand and supply sides and, as...
Carbon Positive |
14 years 6 months ago
US environmental consultancy EcoTrust has won approval for the first carbon offset project methodology in improved forest management (IFM) under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). IFM is a relatively new field of carbon crediting activity taking on heightened importance following the widening...
Ecosystem Market Place |
14 years 6 months ago
In 2007, more than 50,000 fires raged through the Brazilian Amazon, reducing what were once lush rainforests to charred plains stretching to the horizon. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, fires on the island of Borneo consumed millions of hectares of old-growth forests.
The Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 6 months ago
It’s been a good run for trees in climate-change talks, and that run continues with the latest climate bill introduced two weeks ago in the US Senate (read the full discussion draft here). For proof, just check out the differences between how the new American Power Act treats programs that...
Carbon Offsets Daily |
14 years 6 months ago
Point Carbon Research projects that the price for each metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) would average US$26 over the period 2013-2020 under a federal cap-and-trade system as outlined in the American Power Act (APA). The price projection comes after Point Carbon’s preliminary...
BIZ Journals |
14 years 6 months ago
Concerns Expressed About Treatment of Bioenergy Sources in U.S. House and Senate Climate/Energy Bills; Improper Accounting Could Lead to Large-Scale Destruction of Forests, Undercutting of Other Climate Change Gains.
RUNA |
14 years 6 months ago
LLC Sandzhikles (Tomsk region) - harvesting and woodworking mill – put an advanced sawmilling plant in 2010, which allows selling high quality sawn timber.
Kaieteur News Online |
14 years 6 months ago
The United Nations Environmental Award presented to President Bharrat Jagdeo may well turn out to be the last such award given for advocates of climate change. The tide is slowly turning against climate change advocates and especially those, such as President Jagdeo, who are pushing for a...
The Ecologist |
14 years 6 months ago
Deutsche Bank economist Pavan Sukhdev is heading up the groundbreaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) report and doing for nature what Sir Nicholas Stern did for climate change - valuing it Tom Levitt: Why are we putting a value on nature, why don't we just close off and...
The Ecologist |
14 years 6 months ago
Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, claims a new report The continued expansion of palm oil plantations means orangutans are just a few years from extinction, if...
Forest Carbon Portal |
14 years 6 months ago
Author/organization: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Woods Hole Research Center, Forest Trends, Global Eco Rescue, Tropical Forest Group, and Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Amazonas (IDESAM)
France24 |
14 years 6 months ago
AFP - Illegal logging and unregulated real estate projects are threatening the Balkans' once abundant forests, home to more than half of Europe's bears and to large wolf populations. To alert public opinion to the looming dangers, national parks in the region will rally this weekend to mark the...
CounterPunch |
14 years 6 months ago
Another tragedy befalls the environment and we can count on those that were once environmentalists to capitalize, figuratively and literally. As you read, perhaps a 1000 or so organizations are happily signing (or being bribed to sign) yet another refined letter to President Obama, praising his...
The Washington Post |
14 years 6 months ago
In the days after the immensity of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico became clear, some Nature Conservancy supporters took to the organization's Web site to vent their anger.
Papernet SE |
14 years 6 months ago
May 21 2010 SCA and Sappi have announced their commitment to work together in pulp procurement in Europe. Joining forces with Sappi, is an opportunity for SCA to broaden its pulp-supply base, as SCA is not self-sufficient when it comes to pulp. Working together with Sappi helps to reduce cost...
RISI |
14 years 6 months ago
SHANGHAI, Mai. 21, 2010 (RISI) - Expansion, expansion and expansion, in almost all paper grades, was the word that was heard most in talks among industry CEOs and executives during the recently held Metso Summit at the Finland pavilion at the Shanghai World EXPO. The Chinese market seems to be...
Demotix |
14 years 6 months ago
Sound & Fair has launched a partnership with Just Forests, an Irish NGO, to raise awareness of the availability of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified African blackwood, which is widely used in traditional Irish musical instruments. Sound & Fair has launched a partnership with...