TerraCarbon has issued its January 2012 edition of the Forest Carbon Market Update. Highlights include a look at global carbon prices and twelve market developments to look for in 2012. The Forest Carbon Market Update is provided to TerraCarbon’s clients, partners, and colleagues each quarter and...
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W.W. (Bill) Bourgeois PhD, RPF |
12 years 7 months ago
Honorable Steve Thomson Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations PO Box 9071 Stn Prov Govt Victoria, BC, V8W 9E9 Honorable Pat Bell Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation P.O. Box 9049, Stn Prov Govt Victoria, BC, V8W 9E2
TROPENBOS SURINAME |
12 years 7 months ago
In many tropical countries forest are destroyed to expand timber, mining and agricultural industries and are affected by infrastructure investments such roads and dams. Deforestation rates in Suriname have been historically low due to the low population pressure and relative...
FORNIS |
12 years 7 months ago
AllAfrica |
12 years 7 months ago
The federal government has benefited a $4million grant from United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) to help it reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, the Minister of Environment, Hadiza Mailafia, has disclosed. This followed the...
ABC Net |
12 years 7 months ago
CSIRO Honorary fellow and retired chief scientist, Dr Sadanandan Nambier, told over 200 delegates at the full day conference titled 'Precision Forestry in Action' that the challenge now was learning how to forest in a sustainable way to match the global exponential wood demand. "You have to...
Forestry Commmission UK |
12 years 7 months ago
The Government has announced it will implement a host of the forestry sector’s own recommendations to boost sustainable forestry and the green economy in its response to the Forestry Regulation Task Force published today, 27 March 2012. The Task Force identified more than 40 ways to make it easier...
Trust |
12 years 7 months ago
Tackling climate change through sustainable forest management is being promoted as a way forward to fight greenhouse gases. Good management of forests practices can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. It also can help strengthen food security, reduce poverty, and achieve...
OpenPR |
12 years 7 months ago
A recent report in the Financial Times has provided a boost for the forestry investment industry, as it outlines how timber demand could increase by 55 per cent by 2050, according to FRA. Bainbridge Island, WA, March 29, 2012 - A recent report in the Financial Times has provided a boost for the...
Fiji Times Online |
12 years 7 months ago
THINK of your future generations. Members of the media were told to spare a thought for the future of their children and implement programs that would safeguard their natural resources. The consultant for the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) policy, Dr Sean...
IPP Media |
12 years 7 months ago
This week Gerald Kitabu interviewed HAKIARDHI Senior Programme Officer Cuthbert Tomitho on public awareness and benefits accrued from the National Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Excerpts:
Phys Org |
12 years 7 months ago
Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have investigated how much carbon the natural forests of Sri Lanka contain. The results are important for work to reduce deforestation of tropical countries, and for international negotiations in climate policy relating to a new climate...
Liberian Observer |
12 years 7 months ago
According to the Liberia Social Audit Report of 2011, more than 1,084,912 hectares of forestland have been allocated by the Liberian government to logging operations as indicated by available statics. In addition to areas allocated to logging operations, other concessions allocated to...
Market Watch |
12 years 7 months ago
Funds managed by New Forests have taken a controlling interest in the 46,000 hectare Auspine estate. New Forests' Australia New Zealand Forest Fund is the lead investor in the transaction, which includes the land and trees of the 64-property estate, formerly owned and managed by Gunns Limited. The...
Trust |
12 years 7 months ago
The government of Cameroon has intensified a crackdown on illegal loggers in a measure aimed at conserving the country’s forest resources and combating the effects of climate change. Philip Ngole Ngwese, the country’s minister of forestry and wildlife, recently announced the suspension of licenses...
CIFOR |
12 years 7 months ago
A new CIFOR project in the Congo Basin is hoping to bolster scientific evidence that proves sustainable timber production in forests logged by private companies and local communities could increase carbon stocks needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.
TRUST |
12 years 7 months ago
Efforts to secure land ownership for tribal people in one of India’s poorest states are bolstering their economic security in the face of climate-induced hardships, and helping conserve farmland and forest. In the hamlet of Kharibandh in Ganjam, a coastal district in the eastern state of Orissa (...
Eureka Alert |
12 years 7 months ago
With its 1.7 billion square kilometres, an area equivalent to 5 times the size of Germany, the Congo Basin forest is the world's second largest tropical forest. The 'State of the Congo Basin Forests 2010' report launched in Douala, Cameroon, at the Annual meeting of the Congo Basin Forest...
Prof. Fred Brunnell |
12 years 7 months ago
Minister Bell Parliament Buildings Victoria, BC V8V 1X4 Dear Minister Bell, There are many reasons why what the Globe and Mail terms “panic in the government” should not descend into head-over-heels panic. Logging long-protected forest areas will certainly appear as panic and a government that...
Peruvian Times |
12 years 7 months ago
Environment Ministers from eight South American countries are meeting for a two day summit, starting Tuesday, to discuss actions to protect the Amazon rain forest, Peru’s state news agency Andina reported. The summit, which was inaugurated by Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Roncagliolo,...