BONN (IDN) - Reflecting profound concerns of developing countries, a new report has strongly criticised the World Bank group for promoting false solutions to climate change, such as carbon trading, megadams, agrofuels and industrial monoculture tree plantations.
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Mongabay |
13 years 5 months ago
Science Magazine |
13 years 5 months ago
Kaieteur News Online |
13 years 5 months ago
Dear Editor, Jamaican Customs opened a shipping container in mid-March and discovered 122kg of cocaine in bags with a consignment of 130 logs. The Guyana Forestry Commission admitted knowledge of this shipment, apparently associated with a State Forest Permission assigned to Aroaima Forest...
Bloomberg |
13 years 5 months ago
Conserving forests as a means for countries to meet climate change targets is crucial to Africa’s participation in the world’s carbon markets, said Envirotrade Carbon Ltd.
AllAfrica |
13 years 5 months ago
Greenpeace today reacted to two recent cases of social conflicts between logging companies and local communities that have reportedly resulted in violent police interventions, arrests and reported abuses. Greenpeace is calling on the Democratic Republic of Congo' government to commit to upholding...
ePrints |
13 years 5 months ago
Maguire, Rowena (2010) The international regulation of sustainable forest management : doctrinal concepts, governing institutions and implementation. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
Bernama |
13 years 5 months ago
KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysia received RM43 million in official development aid (ODA) from the European Union (EU) last year to promote legal timber trade and sustainable forest management. In a statement Friday, the EU Delegation to Malaysia said the EU was also funding projects...
Portal ANGOP |
13 years 5 months ago
Brazzaville - The President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, defended on Friday the establishment of partnerships between the sustainable forest management and the development of the countries located in the three tropical forest basins of the world. The Congolese statesman said...
Climate-I |
13 years 5 months ago
30 May 2011: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched a sustainable forest management project in Cambodia, which aims to promote forest conservation, benefit the rural poor, and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Good News Finland |
13 years 5 months ago
Finnish forest product company UPM has signed a conservation easement agreement with the State of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources on 76,000 hectares of UPM-owned forest land in Northern Minnesota. The agreement secures the future economic and recreational use of the company's forests...
Business Green |
13 years 5 months ago
Governments will today be called on to help fund tropical forested countries design and implement sustainable forest management plans, as a major new report highlights that despite increased global efforts, less than 10 per cent of land which countries plan to maintain as tropical forest is being...
Eureka Alert |
13 years 5 months ago
Even as countries cite farm expansion as main cause of forest loss, research finds gap between climate 'promises' and farm policies BONN, GERMANY (8 JUNE 2011)—The majority of countries participating in a major global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions caused by forest destruction cite...
Nature |
13 years 5 months ago
A scheme to pay people in developing countries to curb carbon emissions from deforestation is plagued by 'leakage' — trees that aren't cut down in one forest are just cut down in another to provide people with the resources they would have foregone. But a study by an international team of...
RUNA |
13 years 5 months ago
The price growth took place in January and March 2011, while in February the prices decreased. The average price for chip-boards grew by 25.4 % in the first quarter of 2011 as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The most significant was the increase in the average price for...
Newswire |
13 years 5 months ago
TORONTO, June 3, 2011 /CNW/ - Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE) ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company"), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, today commented on the share price decline on June 2, 2011 as a result of the allegations made in a 'report' issued on a website by a short...
Mongabay, Nature, BusinessGreen |
13 years 5 months ago
MONGABAY.COM: 90% of tropical forests managed poorly or not at all More than 90 percent of tropical forests are managed poorly or not at all, says a new assessment by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).
Bloomberg |
13 years 5 months ago
Togo, Nigeria and Ghana have the biggest rates of deforestation out of 65 nations, according to a study described by its authors as the most comprehensive analysis of tropical forests.
RUNA |
13 years 5 months ago
The credits will be used to create a new sawmilling production at the territory of the plant and to implement the project «The upgrading of the woodworking facilities and the creation of forestry complexes». The payment guarantor on credits for the banks shall be OJSC Solombala Pulp-and-Paper...
Greenwood Management |
13 years 5 months ago
Wood costs for the global pulp industry have risen 17 per cent in the past two years, according to market reports. Global market pulp production increased by seven per cent in 2010, which, in turn, boosted demand for wood raw material and pushed up prices for wood chips and pulp logs in most...