The plan was simple: Log and sell as much dead pine as possible before it decayed or burned. But the environmental costs of the large-scale salvaging of Interior forests are still being tallied... The province sold the epidemic as unprecedented in North American history. Biblical plagues of...
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Vancouver Sun |
13 years 7 months ago
Vancouver Sun |
13 years 7 months ago
Phil Burton calls this place a jungle. It's not the tropical Amazonian rainforest or even B.C.'s temperate rainforest, but a stand of lodgepole pine located off the Pelican Forest Service Road about an hour's drive southwest of Prince George. The federal forests researcher estimates the pines were...
Vancouver Sun |
13 years 7 months ago
Salvage logging of B.C.'s Interior lodgepole pine forests is having major consequences for wildlife by eliminating vast stretches of habitat used for activities such as feeding, hiding and keeping warm or cool. While species such as the moose - a "generalist" that eats various types of plants -...
Environmental Finance |
13 years 7 months ago
Time is running out for key decisions on the financing of projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), said Abyd Karmali, global head of carbon emissions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. This week’s UN climate change meeting in Durban must decide if private...
CIFOR |
13 years 7 months ago
The UNFCCC’s scientific sub-committee SBSTA has released a draft text on REDD+ that will go forward to a plenary session of the COP on Saturday for discussion and approval. Louis Verchot, CIFOR’s leading climate change scientist, said the text is robust and calls for transparent processes within...
New York Times |
13 years 7 months ago
When State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corp., offered its first “high-quality green bond strategy” last month, it gave institutional investors a chance to hold segregated accounts that invest in fixed income instruments raising financing for projects meant...
Micro Finance Monitor |
13 years 7 months ago
Proving the outcry that forests are shrinking due to increased urbanisation, industrialisation and rehabilitation, India has set its record straight with a modest increase in its forest cover.
Forest Carbon Asia |
13 years 7 months ago
Norway has been accused of climate hypocrisy in Indonesia, where it has won plaudits for financing forest protection even as its state pension fund allegedly secures even greater revenues from logging, plantations, mining and other environmentally destructive practices. Conservation groups say...
CIFOR |
13 years 7 months ago
REDD+ projects need to be ready to make upfront investments to help local communities to develop alternative sources of income before implementing other aspects of the scheme such as conditional payments for protecting forests, a scientist says. REDD+ developers are shifting their strategies...
Reuters |
13 years 7 months ago
(Reuters) - The global net loss of forest over 1990-2005 was smaller by a third than earlier estimated but deforestation still threatens environment and food security, the United Nation's food agency said on Wednesday unveiling new satellite-based data.
Reuters |
13 years 7 months ago
(Reuters) - Rich nations are on track to deliver on their promise to supply $30 billion in short-term climate financing by the end of next year to help poor countries tackle global warming. But doubts emerged at the climate talks in Durban this week over whether donors will be able to ramp-up...
Daily Mail |
13 years 7 months ago
THE Zambia Institute of Environmental Management (ZIEM) has called for equity and transparency in the utilisation of the Green Climate Fund to enable developing countries effectively manage the effects of climate change. ZIEM executive director Morgan Katati said developing...
Forest Carbon Asia |
13 years 7 months ago
June, 2011. Meyfroidt, P.; van Noordwijk, M.; Minang, P.A.; Dewi, S.; Lambin, E.F.. Policy Brief 25. ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. 4 pages* Summary
Forest Carbon Asia |
13 years 7 months ago
This is a seminar report. The seminar was part of the international course on Local Governance & Rural Decentralization, organized on a yearly basis by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI). The course participants were practitioners from...
Forestry Practices Board |
13 years 7 months ago
Reports from the forest industry about the effects of their activities have always been important to managing the public forests. However, forestry in BC is in a new era that differs from the past in two important respects in the context of reporting.
AllAfrica |
13 years 7 months ago
A National Consultation and Participatory Working Group has been constituted to incorporate the Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA) into Ghana's Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Readiness Preparatory Plan (R-PP). The group was formed in May...
ForestCarbon Asia |
13 years 7 months ago
The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) is cooperating with the Forestry Department to implement the Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests Programme (LEAF) in Laos. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed last week in Vientiane by SNV Country Director Ms Megan Ritchie and department...
Press Info Bureau Gov'nment India |
13 years 7 months ago
Shri Ranjan Chatterjee, Consultant, Planning Commission, said that forests are meant for every body and we need to keep balance between environment and forests. Shri Chatterjee said, “Forests are under pressure because of lack of understanding. Forests are not merely to preserve but work towards...
Spectator |
13 years 7 months ago
IN THE floodplain forests of the Danube River, a short distance from the Slovak-Hungarian border town of Komárno, a small NGO is attempting to harness traditional methods of working with nature to stabilise a disrupted ecosystem and combat climate change. BROZ, the Bratislava-based NGO behind the...
13 years 7 months ago
November 20 we are celebrating UN’s Universal Day of Children, and this year is also the International Year of Forests. Consequently SCA takes the chance to talk more about what children really want: To spend and play more time in the fresh air and the forests. A representative SCA study conducted...