The U.S. government announced the first grants under the first phase of its 2009 Tropical Forests Conservation Act agreement with Indonesia. USAID will provide five grants over the next three years to local NGOs working to conserve and better manage forests and peatlands in Sumatra. The five...
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Mongabay |
13 years 10 months ago
Stock and Land Farm Online |
13 years 10 months ago
AN urgent imperative exists to change how the Australian landscape is managed, for food security and climate change reasons, especially farmland, according to former Governor General, Major-General Michael Jeffery. But in that transition, farmers must be viewed not only as food growers but as...
Climate-L |
13 years 10 months ago
23 February 2011: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced two projects aimed at conserving forests and promoting sustainable development in remote rural communities in Latin America and Asia, as the 2011 recipients of the Sasakawa Prize.
The Financial Express |
13 years 10 months ago
BBC |
13 years 10 months ago
The UK is to stop direct aid to 16 countries, including Russia, China and Iraq, papers seen by the BBC suggest. A draft copy of a government review of its £7.8bn overseas aid budget - to be published this week - also reveals assistance for India will be frozen. But, overall, the international...
Forests MDPI |
13 years 10 months ago
UN-REDD |
13 years 10 months ago
In the UN-REDD Report entitled "Agricultural Expansion and Deforestation", authors Linda Rosengren (UN-REDD Programme) and Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt (Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, FAO) compare the different factors contributing to deforestation in Africa, Asia...
Georgia Pacific |
13 years 10 months ago
Georgia-Pacific previously announced it is expanding its forest protection and sustainability efforts with an updated policy to better identify and protect endangered forests in the United States; promote conservation of forest diversity; and enhance its sustainable forestry and recycling...
Green Antilles |
13 years 10 months ago
In 2007 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations began a search for instances of good forest management in Latin America and the Caribbean. The results of that search were published last year, with the hope that the cases highlighted would provide inspiration and guidance...
13 years 10 months ago
The Nicola Thompson Fraser Sustainable Forest Management Plan will foster forest management practices based on science, professional experience and local public and First Nations input that contribute to the long-term health and productivity of forest ecosystems, a strong economy and thriving...
Business Wire |
13 years 10 months ago
AKARTA, Indonesia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Indonesian-based Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) is expanding internal auditing and certification mandates for its pulpwood suppliers as part of its commitment to achieve 100 percent Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) certification by the end of 2020.
EIB |
13 years 10 months ago
Die Europäische Investitionsbank (EIB) hat ihre Finanzierungen für Klimaschutzprojekte auf 19 Mrd. EUR gesteigert; damit entfallen auf den Klimaschutz beeindruckende 30% der gesamten Darlehen, die die Bank im Jahr 2010 in der Europäischen Union (EU) vergeben hat. Gegenüber 16 Mrd. EUR im Vorjahr...
Forest Portal |
13 years 10 months ago
In 2010, the European Investment Bank (EIB) increased financing for climate action projects to €19 billion, representing 30% of its lending in the European Union, and up from €16 billion in 2009. In 2010, total EIB lending reached €72 billion – €63 billion in the EU, and €9 billion outside the EU...
Times |
13 years 10 months ago
I've got one more tidbit from last weekend's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and it's nothing less than a new scientific concept: telecoupling.
Business Wire |
13 years 10 months ago
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ecotrust today announced the results of a carbon analysis for Oregon’s Elliott State Forest. The study evaluated potential carbon storage under a range of forest management scenarios, and found that the carbon storage benefits of reducing timber harvests on the...
The Pine Tree |
13 years 10 months ago
Judge Patrick Riley in El Dorado County presided over a consolidated case in which environmental activists challenged 19 Timber Harvesting Plans (THPs) submitted to the state by Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) in eight counties. Plaintiffs argued that the plans did not comply with the California...
Timber Community |
13 years 10 months ago
UPM expands its nursery in Joroinen, Finland and builds a second nursery in Uruguay according to a press release from the company. These expansions are said to secure the availability of high quality seedlings and seed material, which is the basis for successful tree cultivation both for the...
MCOT |
13 years 10 months ago
Jakarta, Feb 15 (ANTARA) - Japanese entrepreneurs grouped in Keidanren offer to establish a mechanism for emission reduction exchange with Indonesia, Vice President Boediono`s spokesman said here Monday. "Keidanren offers a carbon emission exhange system with Indonesia, and Japan will provide...