The central government will spend 220 billion yuan ($33 billion) over the next decade to protect China's natural forests. The State Council, China's Cabinet, said on Wednesday the country will carry out the second phase of the Natural Forest Protection Program between 2011 and 2020.
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Forest Talk |
13 years 4 months ago
The provincial government of New Brunswick will be taking a series of actions to strengthen and renew the province’s forest industry. An action plan has been drafted based on recommendations from a stakeholder summit held in November. Natural Resources Minister Bruce Northrup announced the...
Timber Community |
13 years 4 months ago
Pacto pela Restauração da Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact) is an alliance with the aim of the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact is to restore 15 million hectares of the forest in Brazil by the year 2050, spread across annual plans approved by its Steering Committee.
Forestry Nepal |
13 years 4 months ago
Title: Forests for food security and livelihood sustainability: Policy problems and opportunities for small farmers in Nepal Authors: Bhubaneswor Dhakal Authors: Hugh Bigsby Authors: Ross Cullen Date: 2011 Source: Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 35(1):86-115 ...
Dayton Daily News |
13 years 4 months ago
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s 21 state forests are managed well enough to join an elite group of public forest lands that are certified as sustainable, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources said Thursday. The environmental and social standards under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative program have been...
Forest Trends |
13 years 5 months ago
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanisms are one of the best short term alternatives for significantly reducing green house gas emissions, thus contributing to minimize the impacts of global climate changes.
Building Products |
13 years 5 months ago
Wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council will continue to be the only kind qualifying for LEED points, after a motion to open it up to other certification programs failed to win a two-thirds majority from members of the U.S. Green Building Council. Of the 965 members who voted, 55%...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
13 years 5 months ago
Billions have been pledged to fund schemes that slow climate change by saving trees and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), but the private sector won’t come on board in a big way unless forest carbon starts to behave more like established...
International Forest Industries |
13 years 5 months ago
Switzerland-based Global Wood Holding will invest 900 million euros to grow Eucalyptus trees in Tunisia and export the wood to Europe, creating 45,000 jobs reports World Environmemt News. The project will be sited on 160,000 hectares in the Tunisian desert some 500 km (310 miles) south of Tunis...
13 years 5 months ago
In response to increasing public outcries over his complete mismanagement of forests in the public interest, Forest Minister Pat Bell is frequently taking refuge behind forest certification programs. But are third-party stamps of approval really, as Bell claims, a guarantee that our forests -- a...
International Forest Industries |
13 years 5 months ago
A3P has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, that the Gillard Government will introduce legislation restricting the importation and sale of illegally logged timber.A3P CEO Richard Stanton said “we are gratified that the...
IDDRI |
13 years 5 months ago
Agriculture is central to REDD+ When over 83% of new cropland areas in the tropical zone came at the expense of natural forests over the 1980-2000 period, and when the food challenge is becoming increasingly urgent, the REDD+ mechanism must find the means to tackle this sector of activity. ...
EFI |
13 years 5 months ago
The new EFI brochure introduces the Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessments (ToSIA). This new decision-support software tool will assist policy makers, business planners and other stakeholders to make informed decisions on issues related to the use of forest resources and wood products.
Forestry Investment Blog |
13 years 5 months ago
In the past, agriculture was used exclusively to produce food, but now we are turning to crops as a source for energy use. Nowadays everyone is familiar with the argument s relating to the environment and how the energy we use directly affects are surroundings. People are conscious of the...
IIED |
13 years 5 months ago
National REDD strategies must be based on local, not government, control, say opinion leaders from ten countries in the IIED-facilitated Forest Governance Learning Group.
Timber Community |
13 years 5 months ago
The forest industry is important for the economic development of South Africa. Now SIDA grant 3.9 million SEK to investigate the best fast-growing tree species for planting in Africa. The goal of this project is to identify drought tolerant fast growing tree that can produce wood of sufficient...
Kaieteur News |
13 years 5 months ago
The UN Climate Summit in Cancun, which ended last weekend, has agreed on a deal that would get rich countries to pay poor countries like Guyana to protect forests, but explicit details on where the money would come from, who will get paid and how the scheme would be monitored were left out. A...
Forestry Nepal |
13 years 5 months ago
The community forestry program in Nepal has been advancing as a successful means of improving the condition of forests. However, as in other areas around the world, Nepal’s community forestry initiative continues to face unresolved equity issues. This paper seeks to explore underlying causes of...
IUCN |
13 years 5 months ago
IUCN has published a brochure on the contributions that enhanced multi-stakeholder dialogues can make to more effective and equitable REDD-plus planning. REDD-plus offers major opportunities to turn around tropical deforestation and degradation, but if not designed well, implementation can...
Miller McCune |
13 years 5 months ago
I was in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca during one of Mexico’s best-known traditions, the Day of the Dead.