Next year's planted forestry area is set to be the lowest since 1947 unless the capital expenditure budget for forestry is increased, the Association of Irish Forestry Consultants (AIFC) has warned. Planting levels will fall back to 1,800-2,500ha next year, unless funding is increased by €25m...
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SANHATI |
13 years 7 months ago
Indian political and economic elites appear to be quite optimistic on various economic, social and environmental questions: there is a satisfactory rate of economic growth, the promulgation of the Forest Rights Act (2006) aims to remedy historical injustices against adivasis, and the country is...
Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 7 months ago
Speaking at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s annual high-level debate yesterday, President Bharrat Jagdeo called on the UN to establish global accountability indicators to assess whether the implementation of policies is in accordance with the international responsibilities.
Environment for Development |
13 years 7 months ago
Daniel Slunge, Policy Analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg, was invited speaker at the second Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy: Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy, organized by the United Nations...
Treehugger |
13 years 7 months ago
And why we might need to sell forests to save them
Alert Net |
13 years 7 months ago
LUSAKA (AlertNet) - More of Zambia's forests are likely to be cut down for charcoal after the country's energy watchdog allowed national energy company Zesco to hike electricity prices for domestic consumers by around 40 percent in August.
News Blaze |
13 years 7 months ago
MR. STERN: Hi everybody. Thanks for coming. We've just completed the ninth meeting of the Major Economies Forum here in New York. It was attended by officials from 17 major economies, both developed and developing. And we also had some additional invited guests including representatives from...
Engineering News |
13 years 7 months ago
Paper and packaging group Mondi has concluded its ninth land restitution settlement, transferring 258 ha of its forestry land to members of the Mkhwanazi community, in Port Durnford, in KwaZulu-Natal. The members of the community will gain ownership of the land through the Phalane Trust and...
Antara News |
13 years 7 months ago
Pelalawan, Riau (ANTARA News) - Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan has asked Indonesian non-governmental organization activists not discredit their own country abroad and thus disrupt the country`s business development. "We ask for the NGOs` cooperation to jointly settle any problem that arises....
Timber Community |
13 years 7 months ago
Orkla's sale of Borregaard is called the forestry deal of the century in the Nordic countries. Norwegian group Orkla's sale of forest company Borregaard, where Swedish company Bergvik Skog has been mentioned as prospective buyer, has become business for the Norwegian Government, wrote Swedish...
EFI |
13 years 7 months ago
Policy advice has been approved as new strategic function of EFI by the Annual Conference. This means that EFI will increasingly embark on activities that provide enhanced support for decision takers and policy makers.
Environmental Experte |
13 years 7 months ago
Thank you very much, Bernice (Chair). It is my pleasure to be here today, on what is hallowed ground for students of international affairs. It is an appropriate venue. Climate change is the definition of a global threat. A failure to act in time will affect us all. This is the pre-eminent...
EFI |
13 years 7 months ago
Fire has traditionally been a management tool for rural societies and it is still a part of European culture in many regions. Furthermore, fire use plays an increasing role in forest and other land management practices and policies in Europe. In the form of prescribed burning it appears to be a...
Carbon Based GHG Blogs |
13 years 7 months ago
Bill Gabbert in New West (US): …Sometimes land managers, when faced with a landscape of brown, ugly, beetle-killed trees, fall all over themselves finding additional taxpayer funds to “fix” the problem, such as a state Governor vowing to order his state employees to storm into a federal...
Fiji Times |
13 years 7 months ago
THE Department of Forestry has received planting equipment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, to support the Fiji One Million Trees Initiative. The initiative has so far resulted in the planting of 278,000 trees with the support of communities nationwide. It has also...
Ventura County Star |
13 years 7 months ago
Seven western states and four Canadian provinces have joined forces in a plan to limit greenhouse- gas emissions. An entire new source of long-term revenue has become available to British Columbia’s government, which will enable it to protect massive tracts of old- growth forests and...
The Vancouver Sun |
13 years 7 months ago
Twenty-five years ago I was a freshman in the faculty of forestry at the University of B.C. I was keen to learn about trees, animals, water, medicine and old-growth forests. During the early 1980s, the province of British Columbia advertised itself to the world as "Super, Natural British...
La Moncloa |
13 years 7 months ago
Conference on Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Madrid Teresa Ribera stresses that the forestry sector constitutes a fundamental tool in the fight against climate change. At the official opening ceremony of the Conference entitled "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation: a social, economic...
Greenwood Management |
13 years 7 months ago
A new initiative has been launched by Brazilian government agencies that will see the distribution of more that 2.2 million reals worth of funding to sustainable forestry projects before the end of the year. The National Fund for Forestry Development (FNDF), which is being managed by the...
Reuters |
13 years 7 months ago
(Reuters) - Billions of dollars Indonesia stands to earn every year in climate change deals could be at risk if it fails to stamp out corruption in its forestry sector, long notorious for graft and focus of an ongoing investigation. Norway is preparing to pay the first $30 million of $1...