Graz, Austria, Feb 14, 2011 - International technology Group ANDRITZ and Montes del Plata, a joint venture company of Stora Enso and Arauco, are in advanced negotiations towards concluding a contract for supply of production technologies and equipment for the new pulp mill of Montes del Plata in...
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Paperindex Times |
13 years 5 months ago
Business Green |
13 years 5 months ago
Austrian authorities have refused to publish the serial numbers of nearly 500,000 carbon allowances stolen from its registry in last month's cyber attack, in a move that has prompted fresh criticism of the European Commission's handling of the fraud.
Business Green |
13 years 5 months ago
Clearing a backlog of credits and convincing small countries they can benefit from the UN's carbon offsetting scheme will be amongst the top priority as the Clean Development Mechanism's (CDM) executive board gathers in Bonn, Germany this week to discuss the future of the scheme. The meeting...
Timber Community |
13 years 5 months ago
Timber REIT (FTR) Index of public timber REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) has returned 24.10% year-to-date compared with 5.69% for the S&P 500 (as of February 11, 2011) reports Forisk consulting at their blog.
IPS News |
13 years 5 months ago
FAO's State of the World’s Forests report says the average rate of loss of forest cover in Central America, which is made up of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala City, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, was 1.19 percent a year between 2000 and 2010, compared to a global rate of just 0.13...
RUNA |
13 years 5 months ago
The investments in the capital assets of the regional companies amounted to RUR 21 bln after the nine months of 2010, it is expected that the final results will reach RUR 34 bln. According to the rating agency Expert RA, the region managed to considerably mitigate the risks for investors in 2010...
Forest Talk |
13 years 5 months ago
Company Jobs Allocation (cubic metres per year) AbiBow Canada Inc., Thunder Bay will produce stud lumber at their sawmill. Creating 50 Sustaining 160 221,000 conifer Capital Power Income L.P., Calstock will use sawmill wood waste to produce...
SCOOP |
13 years 5 months ago
February 15, 2011 - Carbon Forestry 2011 is the first event of its type run in New Zealand, profiling key investment drivers and future business opportunities in carbon forestry. This international event is being hosted by the Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) on 13-14th July in...
Climeate Central |
13 years 5 months ago
For many years, Colby College in Waterville, Maine, imported about 1.1 million gallons of number six fuel oil each year to heat the campus and produce a portion of its electricity. Beginning next fall, the school will cut that amount by 90 percent.
The REDD Desk |
13 years 5 months ago
ECO-Business |
13 years 5 months ago
The US$1 billion forest conservation deal was signed in May 2010. According to the agreement, Indonesia will implement a two year suspension on all new concessions for conversion of peat and natural forest. According to the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Indonesia...
Forest Carbon Portal |
13 years 5 months ago
Ecology and Society |
13 years 5 months ago
Trust |
13 years 5 months ago
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 3 (IPS) - Last year's severe drought in the Amazon will pump billions of tonnes of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a new report has found.Researchers calculate that millions of trees died in 2010, which means the Amazon is soaking up much less CO2 from...
Börese Express |
13 years 5 months ago
Andritz informs about new orders: The company and Montes del Plata, a joint venture company of Stora Enso and Arauco, are in advanced negotiations towards concluding a contract for supply of production technologies and equipment for the new pulp mill of Montes del Plata in Punta Pereira, Uruguay...
Time |
13 years 5 months ago
The Houston Herald |
13 years 5 months ago
The Nature Conservancy in Missouri announced last week it purchased 175 acres near Hartshorn, including nearly 1.5 miles of land along the Current River - the largest stretch of private frontage remaining in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. The organization has protected and restored...
Action for Climate justice |
13 years 5 months ago
Coal fired power plants want to burn trees as “biomass” on a huge scale to make energy and call it “green and clean.” The Ohio Public Utilities Commission has approved this practice to receive renewable energy credits. Old coal power plants prefer not to use agricultural crops for fuel because...
New Scientist |
13 years 5 months ago
INTENSIFYING agriculture is never going to be the new rock 'n' roll, but the idea is pretty fashionable right now. Last week a major study led by the UK government's chief scientist John Beddington warned that the only way to feed the world is to produce more food from the same amount of land.
Financial Express |
13 years 5 months ago
Clearing the air about the future of clean development mechanism (CDM), a market-based instrument under the Kyoto Protocol enabling developed countries to invest in developing countries to offset carbon emissions, UN climate change chief Christiana Figueres said, “CDM is a work in progress.”