MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) -- The Philippine Wood Producers Association (PWPA) is urging the government to speed up its evaluation of logging firms so that those who comply with rules on sustainable forest management could resume operations. Antonio C. Olizon, president of PWPA, said Wednesday...
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PhilStar |
12 years 11 months ago
12 years 11 months ago
Huffington Post: Panda bashing REED-Monitor: REDD+ and carbon markets: Ten Myths Exploded
Vancouver Sun |
12 years 11 months ago
In the aftermath of the disastrous wildfires in 2003 that burned hundreds of homes and caused millions of dollars in property damage in and around the communities of Kelowna and Barriere, the City of Cranbrook began doing what hundreds of other communities across B.C. must do if they wish to better...
GEF |
12 years 11 months ago
Type of Project: FSP Country: Mexico
The Citizen |
12 years 11 months ago
Investing just 0.034 per cent of global GDP could transform the world's forestry sector, halving deforestation rates, slashing carbon emissions and creating up to five million new jobs by the middle of the century.That is the conclusion of a major new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP...
Vancouver Sun |
12 years 11 months ago
Ever since United States house prices peaked in mid-2006 and the great economic slump began south of the border, British Columbia's government and forest industry alike have been understandably anxious. Dependent as we have been on the U.S. market for billions of dollars in forest product...
TT Journal |
12 years 11 months ago
PEFC International has unanimously approved the application of the China Forest Certification Council (CFCC) to join the world's largest forest certification system. "The Chinese commitment to sustainable forest management and forest certification is to be welcomed," said Ben Gunneberg, PEFC...
World Wire |
12 years 11 months ago
BASEL/GLAND, SWITZERLAND AUGUST 22, 2011 –/WORLD-WIRE/– WWF, the World Wide Fund for Nature, is “highly concerned ” about corruption allegations against the Malaysian Ta Ann Group, a member of the WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network, and has announced a review of its sustainable forestry...
The Sydney Morning Herald |
12 years 11 months ago
IN AUSTRALIA, too often we're told the solution to all environmental problems is locking all native forests in unmanaged reserves, where they'll be immortal, grow forever and continuously suck large amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. We're led to believe all forested landscapes can...
The Province |
12 years 11 months ago
In January, a deal was struck between the Pacific Carbon Trust (the provincial Crown corporation responsible for buying carbon "offsets") and one of British Columbia's biggest logging companies - a deal that would allegedly result in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of additional carbon being stored...
Huffington Post |
12 years 11 months ago
NGO-Business partnerships have been getting a bad press lately.
BC Local News |
12 years 11 months ago
In response to Alex Atamanenko’s claims in his Aug. 2 and Aug. 16 columns, I believe the readers of your newspaper deserve and need to know the facts. While there have been changes in the provincial government’s natural resource ministries over the last year, what hasn’t changed is this government’...
Times of India |
12 years 11 months ago
PUNE: Soon, planting trees could become a money-making proposition. A proposal on 'tree credits,' a concept to make conditions favourable for people to willingly grow and protect trees by getting appropriate periodic financial returns, has been floated by the directorate of social forestry. The...
EFI |
12 years 11 months ago
UNEP has published the fifth issue in the Policy Brief on Ecosystem Management series. This policy brief seeks to outline how forests can be a key part of a green economy that provides opportunities for innovative solutions to forest management. The provides an overview of the many values of forest...
The Ecologist |
12 years 11 months ago
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops' From India and Indonesia to Colombia and Costa Rica, the number of bamboo plantations worldwide is rising as quickly as the...
Forest Talk |
12 years 11 months ago
Don and Donna Kowaluk live in a rural, agricultural area of southern Ontario, near Strathroy. About 15 years ago, 22,500 trees were planted on the Kowaluk’s property. Last winter, the Kowaluk’s decided to turn their land back into agricultural land. They had half the acreage harvested when the...
EFI |
12 years 11 months ago
New ways to assess the sustainability of forest based activities in Northern Europe is the main topic of the Northern ToSIA final conference which started today in Rovaniemi, Finland. Drawing on several case studies, the final conference will demonstrate how the results of the project can help...
WRI |
12 years 11 months ago
New Global Restoration Council to be led by former Swedish Prime Minister Persson A global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested lands by 2020 is being launched in Bonn, Germany. The announcement comes during the Bonn Challenge Ministerial Roundtable, where a select...
REDD-Net |
12 years 11 months ago
The need for REDD+ to coordinate and involve multiple sectors involved in driving deforestation and forest degradataion is becoming increasingly important.
Paperindex Times |
12 years 11 months ago
Russia, Aug 17, 2011 - Last month Mondi Syktyvkar launched the large-scale Forest of the Future project to further strengthen its forestry operations. The program is scheduled to close in 2013.