Petrochemicals from biomass without using excess water from the start-up Anellotech. An early-stage company spun out of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, plans to commercialize a catalytic process for converting cellulosic biomass into five of the chemicals found in gasolin. Video...
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Timber Community |
13 years 3 months ago
EFI |
13 years 3 months ago
The European Forest Institute (EFI) will establish a Policy Advice office in Barcelona by this summer. This decision follows a very generous offer by Spain to host the office. The office will include also FLEGT-REDD activities, funded by the European Commission, which are a growing component of...
RISI |
13 years 3 months ago
Transparency International |
13 years 3 months ago
On 30 April 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Transparency International launches the Global Corruption Report: Climate Change, a comprehensive guide to corruption risks in measures to combat climate change. As efforts to combat climate change become grander in scale and sophistication, the risks will...
FAO |
13 years 3 months ago
6 April 2011, Rome/Avignon - A new partnership for Mediterranean forests has been established to address major threats to the region's forests being exacerbated by the severe impact of climate change. The partnership was announced at the Second Mediterranean Forest Week, which is taking place in...
Bretton Woods Project |
13 years 3 months ago
As details emerge of the World Bank's new facility to pay countries for preventing deforestation and forest degradation, concerns about its operations and governance mount.
Sys-Con |
13 years 3 months ago
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/04/11 -- ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: ESR) through its 100% owned subsidiary ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates Inc., (ERA) is pleased to announce the signing of a Carbon Rights Agreement (CRA) with the Minister of Environment for the...
Bretton Woods Project |
13 years 3 months ago
The World Bank has come under fire for its Inspection Panel’s decision not to investigate its forestry sector programme in Liberia, while new reports from civil society groups add to the backlog of criticism over the Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).
LaoVoices |
13 years 3 months ago
The German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) has provided 4 million euros to the Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) project in Laos. The project will run for seven years, from 2010-2017, with a focus on the national protected areas of Nam Pouy in Xayaboury...
BWINT - Building and Wood Worker's International |
13 years 3 months ago
As countries are working towards formulation UN REDD national programs, questions are being asked as to whether the REDD+ based projects are able to increase participation of variety of stakeholders including trade Unions? And also whether forest workers and communities are effectively...
ProFor |
13 years 3 months ago
E Turbo News |
13 years 3 months ago
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (eTN) - Tanzania's President has rejected an application to place some mountains in the Eastern Arc under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage Site. The President, Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, nullified an application...
Mongabay |
13 years 3 months ago
A new report from World Growth International, a lobby group for industrial forestry interests, contains "false and misleading" information on the economic impact of reducing Indonesia's deforestation rate, says an Indonesian environmental group. The report, released today, claims that reducing...
World Agroforestry Centre |
13 years 3 months ago
Investments in agricultural research and development, including agroforestry and community forestry, are important for maintaining the livelihoods of many forest-dependent people in developing countries and should not be overlooked in the REDD+ debate, according to a working paper by the land...
Brunei Direct |
13 years 3 months ago
Mexico City - The Minister of Development, Pehin Orang Kaya Indera Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Suyoi bin Haji Osman, together with officials from the Ministry of Development as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade attended the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change '...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 3 months ago
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Apr 5, 2011 - Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) announced today it is expanding its partnership with Carbon Conservation by engaging the environmental and sustainability consulting firm to help craft Vision 2020, a roadmap to guide sustainability principles, goals and program...
Miami Herald |
13 years 3 months ago
WASHINGTON -- Simpson Tacoma Kraft would seem like one of the greener power plants. It boils water by burning sawdust, bark and wood shavings from saw mills and pulp mills, funneling the resulting high-pressure steam into a turbine to generate electricity.
Eco Home Magazine |
13 years 3 months ago
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released five goals for the forest products industry to be more environmentally sustainable, including work to increase the amount of fiber procured from certified forest lands and to promote polices worldwide that reduce illegal logging.
GreenBiz |
13 years 3 months ago
Like robins, Sun Belt baseball and daffodils poking their heads up from the soil, it seems to be a rite of spring for advocates of the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative to go after each other about the relative credibility of each other’s forestry standards.
PHYs-ORG |
13 years 3 months ago