AS Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy moves beyond its start-up phase, the government is leading efforts to advance work on the six priority investments for this year. The six investments will accelerate Guyana’s transition to a low carbon economy by deploying the US$70M earned by Guyana...
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Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 6 months ago
Newswire CA |
13 years 6 months ago
VANCOUVER, May 18 /CNW/ - In the last few weeks, including just today in B.C., there have been many outrageous comments published in the media questioning the safety of wood frame buildings in reaction to the recent construction fire at the Richmond Remy jobsite. While we all wait for the results...
RABBLE |
13 years 6 months ago
It is a pretty well accepted truth that "He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it." Commenting on the economic trends in Italy, where he was American ambassador, George Perkins Marsh wrote something in 1864 that would be current and accurate if it was printed in a major newspaper today...
Business Green |
13 years 6 months ago
Merrill Lynch chief says REDD scheme investors face risks equivalent to "emerging markets squared" The United Nations has stepped up its campaign to encourage businesses to deliver the billions of dollars of investment required to stop the destruction of rainforests and protect forest ecosystems.
Bloomberg |
13 years 6 months ago
The world’s forests may spur financial rewards and risk management opportunities as a way to curb climate change, according to the United Nations.
IEWY |
13 years 6 months ago
From 9-13 May 2011, the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC) will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. The European Commission will be represented by European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs and Trade...
IIED |
13 years 6 months ago
Every month we highlight a new, groundbreaking or bestselling IIED research outcome. This month we feature a ground breaking IIED publication Tenure in REDD: Start-point or afterthought? As new mechanisms for 'reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation' (REDD) are being...
IPS News |
13 years 6 months ago
MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2011 (IPS) - The implementation of a forestry programme against climate change in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas poses a threat to indigenous people in the state, non-governmental organisations warn.
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Mongabay |
13 years 6 months ago
Global Policy Journal |
13 years 6 months ago
The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the successor states to the European colonial empires of sub-Saharan Africa, contains staggering natural resources – including the second largest remaining block of intact rainforests one earth. On the face of it, the DRC (profiled by the CIA here) should...
RISI |
13 years 6 months ago
NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 (RISI) - Innovation is a strange and tricky thing. Entire fields of human endeavors have moved along at a snail's pace for decades, or even centuries, only to speed ahead into new, uncharted territory with a new technology or technique that changes everything. That is the...
Rights and Resources |
13 years 6 months ago
Timber Community |
13 years 6 months ago
UPM has agreed to sell its Lohja veneer mill from the Plywood Business Area to the mill’s operative management. In addition to mill’s businesses, the agreement covers the mill real estate, buildings, machinery and property. The mill’s personnel will continue to work with the new, to be...
RUNA |
13 years 6 months ago
The major Russian producer of marketable pulp and board Ilim Group is launching the construction of a plant in the scope of investment project in Bratsk with 700 mln USD worth. The plant is will be specially built to satisfy the needs of the Chinese market and the pay off period will be 2-3 years...
Paperindex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
St. Petersburg, Russia, May 3, 2011 - Over the first quarter of 2011 the Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk Branches of Ilim Group has manufactured 367,000 tons of pulp and paper products. This is 2.5% more than in January — March of the previous year. This includes 309,000 tons of market pulp, which is a 2...
Paperindex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
UK, May 9, 2011 - International technology Group ANDRITZ has received a further order from Holmen AB’s subsidiary, Iggesund Paperboard Ltd., to deliver a wood-based biomass receiving and handling system for Iggesund’s paperboard mill Workington in Cumbria, UK. The start-up is scheduled for April...
Paperindex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
Sweden, May 9, 2011 - Billerud is to evaluate the technical and market prerequisites for lignocellulose-based pyrolysis products. The project goal is to manufacture green oil from forest residues such as branches, tops and stumps. The green oil can then be turned into renewable energy in...
EFI |
13 years 6 months ago
The European Union and the Government of Liberia, which presides over half of the remaining rainforest in West Africa, announced today a landmark agreement to ensure that all Liberian timber products exported from Liberia to the EU are derived from legal sources and that the resulting trade will...
International Forest Industries |
13 years 6 months ago
Climate Capacity |
13 years 6 months ago
MJUMITA is a network of around 500 community forest groups in 420 Tanzanian villages in 23 districts – with an estimated 6000 individual members. Most members are small farmers or bee-keepers and other forest users living close to the Tanzanian forests, which are mainly government property. Ms....