CORNER BROOK — The essential elements of sustainable forest management in Newfoundland and Labrador are being learned and implemented in some South American countries. The creation of a criterion indicator program for monitoring and evaluating forest management in Canada is being adopted as...
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The Western Star |
13 years 4 months ago
Living Peru |
13 years 4 months ago
Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Paavo Väyrynen, said there are important opportunities for expansion of trade and economic cooperation between Finland and Peru. The developing economy of Peru offers cooperation opportunities for Finnish companies particularly in natural...
Global Witness |
13 years 4 months ago
Guyana has seen deforestation rates soar over the last year, despite the signing of an agreement with the Norwegian government aimed precisely at supporting a reduction in deforestation rates, said Global Witness today.
Greenwood Management |
13 years 4 months ago
A growth in high-rise wood buildings could boost timber production in Brazil and see the country's trees being used for more buildings globally, a Canadian architect has claimed. Michael Green, an architect at Vancouver-based firm Mgb Architecture, made the claims at the recent Green Cities...
International Forestindustries |
13 years 4 months ago
Reuters |
13 years 4 months ago
OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations postponed until April on Thursday a 40-nation meeting due to start designing a green fund to help poor nations fight climate change, missing a March deadline amid disagreements about who should attend. Groups of Asian and Latin American and Caribbean nations...
CIFOR Blogs |
13 years 4 months ago
Jane Tarh Takang is the former Coordinator of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) West and Central Africa. She tells us about her experiences in gender and women empowerment in development in Africa. WOCAN is a US-based international network of...
Vietnam News |
13 years 4 months ago
HA NOI — The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) signed an agreement with the Vietnamese Government yesterday, committing itself to a technical assistance partnership to develop the country's capacity in forest resources assessment.
Forests |
13 years 4 months ago
Survival International |
13 years 4 months ago
Peru’s government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peru’s government is aware that the illegal timber is being ‘laundered’ using ‘document falsification, timber extraction outside...
Channel 4 |
13 years 4 months ago
Government subsidies to encourage power companies to burn wood are distorting the market for timber and forcing up prices in manufacturing and construction industries, Channel 4 News has learned. The largest consumer of biomass fuel in the UK is now the Drax power plant in Selby, North...
Forst Talk |
13 years 4 months ago
British Columbia‘s forest sector has been cut back so severely in recent years that now that demand for their wood is surging, the companies are having a difficult time physically meeting the demand. In Gordon Hamilton’s article in The Vancouver Sun, he mentioned the following shortages:
Paperindex Times |
13 years 4 months ago
Timber Community |
13 years 4 months ago
The European Commission launched on Friday a detailed examination of UPM-Kymmene's acquisition of the Finnish company Myllykoski and German company Rhein Papier. EU regulatory process of UPM's Myllykoski transaction proceeds into the second phase.The Competition Directorate-General of the EU...
SMH |
13 years 4 months ago
'This could really take off,'' said Ross Garnaut this week, releasing his latest update paper on Transforming Rural Land Use. ''This could be seriously big.'' And it's hard not to get excited looking at the greenhouse gas reduction figures in the climate change adviser's paper, based on CSIRO...
13 years 4 months ago
The newsletter cover EU Energy policies for renewables and bioenergy, the position on EU Energy, publications and EU projects with green pellets. EU ENERGY POLICY FOR RENEWABLES The biomass part within nREAPs – a still sleeping giant for RES heat European Commission publishes progress reports...
Paperindex Times |
13 years 4 months ago
London, UK, Mar 2, 2011 - The EBRD is providing an €11 million loan to Natron Hayat, a pulp and paper mill located in Maglaj in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, to support the company’s further growth and development in line with EU standards. Natron Hayat is a producer of various paper and...
Manila Bulletin |
13 years 4 months ago
MANILA, Philippines – A total logging ban would only worsen the rate of deforestation of the country's meager forest cover. Dr. Rex Victor Cruz, dean of the UP College of Forestry and Natural Resources in Los Banos and part of the UN Working Group on Climate Change team that won the 2007 Nobel...
The Ecologist |
13 years 4 months ago
In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing productivity can help combat deforestation in the Amazon More intensive beef production can limit deforestation in Brazil where the space used to rear cattle is ten times what you see in other countries, according to...
People Daily |
13 years 4 months ago
A new report on Thursday said Australia can meet its carbon emissions target by doing nothing more than claiming offsets from re-vegetation of cleared land, regional forest agreements and ending logging of native forests. Australia has set its target of a 5 percent cut in carbon emissions by...