GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – President Bharrat Jagdeo has been appointed as one of four world leaders to sit on a United Nations panel to address financing for countries in the fight against climate change. Also named to the panel established by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are the Prime...
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Forestry Investment Blog |
14 years 9 months ago
A deal has been struck by British Airways to build the first plant in Europe to produce jet fuel from waste matter. The plant construction is due to begin within the next two years with plans already in place to start fuel production by 2014. Once the project is completed 500,000 tones of waste...
Radio Free Asia |
14 years 9 months ago
More Lao forestry officials are taking bribes in exchange for illegal logging concessions. BANGKOK—The number of forestry officials in Laos charged with taking bribes is increasing despite an ongoing crackdown, according to a top government lawyer. Rangsy Sibounheuang, deputy chief public...
The Ecologist |
14 years 9 months ago
Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical Biofuel investment and production in Tanzania is a highly contentious issue. Biofuel investors have been doing business in Tanzania since 2000,...
The Ecologist |
14 years 9 months ago
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different A number of UK-based investment companies are marketing a controversial biofuel crop as an 'ethical investment' despite it...
The Ecologist |
14 years 9 months ago
Everyone wants an alternative to fossil fuels, but in our rush to develop biofuel alternatives, we risk creating even worse problems for ourselves Climate change presents a fundamental challenge to our way of life. Western economies are hooked on oil and almost every sector is implicated in...
International Forest Industries |
14 years 9 months ago
International Forest Industries |
14 years 9 months ago
Financing future forestry growth is the focus for a new forestry conference which is drawing a wide audience from both the finance sector and many new participants in the industry. reports Friday off cuts.”Many people in both the finance industry and the investment sector are waking up to the...
International Forest Industries |
14 years 9 months ago
Seattle, WA, February 11, 2010 (PressReleasePoint) — The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP), a new federal program in the US that is intended to increase the usage of renewable energy by covering some of the costs related to the collection of woody biomass and agricultural residues, has...
Stabroek News |
14 years 9 months ago
Conservation International Guyana (CI Guyana) will provide the Guyana Forestry Commission with $8M to support the establishment of a special secretariat which will be involved in figuring out just how much carbon Guyana has in its forests and how to calculate it. The establishment of the...
Stabroek News |
14 years 9 months ago
Last week I was careful to point out that any serious assessment of the LCDS and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Guyana and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway needs to be situated in the broader context of the global negotiations on climate change. Although...
My NewsDesk |
14 years 9 months ago
Seattle, USA. February 2010. Pulp markets have been remarkably strong during 2009 despite the global financial crisis. From April through December, the softwood market pulp price (NBSK) jumped 45%. Strong pulp markets and a tight wood fiber supply pushed wood fiber costs upward last year.
RUNA |
14 years 9 months ago
Bio-energy becomes one of the innovative trends for the Arkhangelsk timber industry. Until recently wood wastes haven’t been considered as available cheap resource for byproducts. Currently the situation has changed and part of the biomass is used as alternative fuel for some boiler-houses....
Nepalese Society in Goettingen |
14 years 9 months ago
Göttingeli Nepalese Society, popularly known as GöNeS, proudly started to introduce the well-known Nepalese academician in Germany who has already set a standard in their respective field. Their story of hard work and struggle, their experience and broader spectrum of thoughts might be very...
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Dead Tree Edition |
14 years 9 months ago
Which is greener, getting news online or reading a newspaper? For environmental expert and activist Sarah Westervelt, the obvious answer is the printed newspaper. “It doesn’t take electricity to read my paper,” she said in a video posted recently at PBS' Mediashift site. “I’m too informed about...
Finnish Environment Institute |
14 years 9 months ago
Finnish Environment Institute, Finnish Forest Research Institute and the Dating Laboratory of the Finnish Museum of Natural History at the University of Helsinki
14 years 9 months ago
ANDRITZ to supply the world’s largest wood pelleting plant to Russia International technology Group ANDRITZ will supply all process equipment for a complete wood pelleting plant to the Russian pulp and paper producer Vyborgskaja Cellulosa in Vyborg. The order value is approximately 40 MEUR,...
Forest.fi |
14 years 9 months ago
"The climate alters the natural environments people are used to. Deciding what to protect is an ethical problem," says research scientist Markku Kanninen. Senior Scientist, Mr. Markku Kanninen is not too keen on the term biodiversity. ”It just doesn’t work here in the tropics; it’s too abstract...