McKinsey & Co. is helping rainforest nations such as Indonesia and Guyana safeguard their logging industry while gaining access to millions of dollars in funds intended to protect trees, Greenpeace said.
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Bloomberg |
13 years 7 months ago
Forest Talk |
13 years 7 months ago
The Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) has announced a $923,261 investment to expand Elementa Group’s Pre-Commercial Demonstration Plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario This funding will allow Elementa to make the necessary modifications to begin using forest biomass as...
PragCAP |
13 years 7 months ago
Did you completely miss the utter collapse in lumber futures in recent weeks? I certainly did. In just the last 3 weeks lumber futures have fallen 25%. The Wall Street Journal says the decline has been due to a number of factors including fears of slowing Asian demand, weak US housing markets...
Paper Index Times |
13 years 7 months ago
South Africa, Apr 15, 2011 - Mondi is pleased to announce the signing of a new €750 million, 5-year revolving multicurrency credit facility to refinance its existing €1.55 billion credit facility that was due to mature in June 2012. This completes the refinancing of its €1.55 billion facility...
Forestry Nepal |
13 years 7 months ago
13 years 7 months ago
On 29 March 2011, the European Environment Agency (EEA) published 36 land cover country analyses based on CLC 2006 data. Each of the country reports provides graphs and maps based on a common template that characterise land cover changes concisely. The provided information does not represent...
Paper Index Times |
13 years 7 months ago
UK, Apr 14, 2011 - International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Holmen AB’s subsidiary Iggesund Paperboard Ltd. to deliver a biomass boiler island for Iggesund Paperboard (Workington) Ltd. in Cumbria, United Kingdom. Commissioning and start-up of the boiler are scheduled for...
Oslo REDD Exchange |
13 years 7 months ago
Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) will be organizing a workshop – “Oslo REDD Exchange” – 23-24 June 2011. The Oslo REDD Exchange 2011 workshop will focus on how to promote the social sustainability of REDD+,...
Climate-I |
13 years 7 months ago
13 April 2011: The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation and Capacity-Building Workshop on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries, Including on Relevant Biodiversity Safeguards, convened from 15-18 March 2011, in...
Vancouver Sun |
13 years 7 months ago
Bravo to Professors Simard and Lewis for speaking out on declining stewardship of B.C.'s public forests, a trend many foresters have observed with growing alarm over the past decade. Re: New policies needed to save our forests, Opinion, April 8 The issues are three-fold: First, cumulative effects...
Timber Community |
13 years 7 months ago
UPM and International Paper have signed an agreement concerning the sale of UPM's ownership in the Russian logging company ZAO Tikhvinsky Komplexny Lespromkhoz. According to the agreement, the operations, permanent personnel and logging license covering 184,000 hectares of forest area in Tikhvin...
Forest Talk |
13 years 7 months ago
Nova Scotia has decided to lower the cap on the annual amount of new forest biomass that can be used to generate electricity by 30% – to 350,000 dry tonnes per year. The reduction is to protect the sustainability of Nova Scotia’s forests, while still keeping the province on track to meet its...
Mongabay |
13 years 7 months ago
Small-scale agriculture — including cocoa, cassava, and oil palm farming — has driven large-scale conversion West Africa tropical forests, reports new research published in the journal Environmental Management.
EFI |
13 years 7 months ago
Climate-I |
13 years 7 months ago
5 April 2011: A Global Environment Facility Project is reported to be helping the Government of Komi (Russian Federation) to improve the sustainability of the national protected area system and measure carbon stocks and reduced emissions from deforestation.
Carbon Positive |
13 years 7 months ago
REDDForests |
13 years 7 months ago
Redd Forests, the Australian based carbon project developer, has achieved validation of its Tasmanian Improved Forestry Management projects, the first such projects in the world. Working with Tasmanian landowners, Redd Forests has registered the first of multiple projects, all of which protect...
Heritage Foundation |
13 years 7 months ago
President Obama and his congressional allies’ domestic climate change agenda—“cap and trade”—failed in the last Congress due to extensive opposition to its costly regulations and barriers to growth. Having failed to enact draconian climate change legislation domestically, however, President Obama...
CIFOR |
13 years 7 months ago
BOGOR, Indonesia (7 April, 2011) _ With billions of dollars on offer for developing nations to protect their forests because of their role in slowing climate change, renewed attention is being paid to who owns the land on which the trees sit – and who owns the carbon in the trees and the ground.
Guardian |
13 years 7 months ago
Europe's commissioner for climate action on Tuesday confirmed for the first time plans to link the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) with California's carbon market which opens next year.