WASHINGTON, USA, Jan 12, 2011 – American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman today issued the following statement regarding EPA’s decision to delay regulation of CO2 emissions from biomass under the Clean Air Act pending further study. “AF&PA applauds...
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PaperIndex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
Earth Journalism |
13 years 6 months ago
Reporting REDD+: a journalist's guide to the role of forests in combating global climate change This media pack is a joint initiative of the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the United Nations Collaborative Programme on...
Times Colonist |
13 years 6 months ago
Massive emissions of greenhouse gases are coming from B.C.'s coastal forests because of poor logging practices and inadequate management, according to a new report by environmentalists. The carbon from coastal rainforests, much of which comes from Vancouver Island, is not counted in B.C.'s...
Kaieteur News Online |
13 years 6 months ago
The World Bank has approved Guyana’s request for the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) to perform the services as delivery partner for Guyana’s participation in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) which focal point is the Guyana Forestry Commission. This request for piloting the...
California Progress Report |
13 years 6 months ago
AB32 - Charged with implementing the provisions of A.B. 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the California Air Resource Board (ARB) last Dec.16 held a marathon day of public testimony in Sacramento before adopting the cap-and-trade program they declared would set “the gold standard”...
Climate Focus |
13 years 6 months ago
The results of CP16/CMP6 in Cancún, Mexico, held from November 29 through December 10, 2010, offer a reason to celebrate even though a post-2012 climate deal was not struck and thorny issues will remain unresolved until next year at CP17/CMP7 in Durban, South Africa. Both the UNFCCC as well as...
CIGAR |
13 years 6 months ago
Momentum is growing to develop agricultural solutions to climate change, including at the international level. At the Cancun climate conference last month, partners and allies of the new CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) argued that agriculture has...
CIFOR Blog |
13 years 6 months ago
For many policy analysts and scholars, turning forest management over to governments, particularly as protected areas, is one way to preserve forests. But according to Elinor Ostrom, at the CIFOR pre-conference workshop “People, institutions and forests: Moving toward a new governance agenda,”...
Wild Uganda |
13 years 6 months ago
Yesterday a Ugandan man and I were planning an environmental education training for teachers. He was lamenting the poor state of the environment in Uganda and said that he wished Ugandans had the same sense of responsibility towards the environment that Americans have. He said “why can’t...
One Pakistan |
13 years 6 months ago
Islamabad, Islamic Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization (ISESCO) of OIC would extend financial support and technical cooperation for imparting training about Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) for capacity building of forest officers through-out the...
IPP Media |
13 years 6 months ago
The United Nation (UN) has declared 2011 as the international year of forests although more than a billion forest-dependent poor will probably not see it that way. Spiraling global demand for food, energy, fibre and water spell trouble for these people’s forests.
Conservation Magazine |
13 years 6 months ago
West Africa’s Guinean Rainforest once stretched unbroken from Guniea to Cameroon. Today, however, just 18% of the forest remains, in part due to the rapid expansion of slash-and-burn agriculture by small farmers growing cocoa, the source of chocolate. Enabling chocolate farmers to buy better...
Planet Ark |
13 years 6 months ago
Japan has no objection to buying more carbon emissions rights from Ukraine as its checks have shown that money Tokyo previously paid for permits has been properly accounted for, a government official said Thursday. Ukraine's current government has accused the former prime minister of misusing...
CIFOR Blog |
13 years 6 months ago
It’s easy to point fingers at a particular country’s illegal log trade, but we need to keep in mind that the industry is feeding the world’s demand for timber. Illegal logging is a collective problem that requires a collective solution, says Nalin Kishor of the World Bank.
Business Green |
13 years 6 months ago
The World Bank has launched a €68m (£57m) pot of funding aimed at enabling carbon-cutting projects to keep selling UN-backed offsets after the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. A statement published by the bank yesterday said the second tranche of funding under its Umbrella...
Focali |
13 years 6 months ago
The bilateral REDD+ agreement between Norway and Guyana in 2009 has received international attention. This Focali brief gives and update on the Gyuana case from the previous brief (Henders 2010).
Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 6 months ago
THE Agriculture Ministry, in a release, has stated that the World Bank has approved Guyana's request for the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) to perform the services as delivery partner for its participation in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), which focal point is the...
AllAfrica |
13 years 6 months ago
Dar es Salaam — The National Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) task force has invited stakeholders to give their inputs to the first National REDD draft strategy. According to a statement released yesterday by the University of Dar es Salaam's Institute of...
Timber Community |
13 years 6 months ago
Production is set to start at Braviken Sawmill, the largest in Scandinavia according to a pressrelease from the company. The first log for a customer order was cut up in the sawmill on 12 January 2011. Production focuses on spruce construction timber that is sold to customers primarily in...
Timber Community |
13 years 6 months ago
Norske Skog has entered into an agreement concerning sale of Klosterøya to a consortium consisting of Conceptor Eiendomsutvikling AS and Bratsberg Gruppen AS, and has at the same time also finalised sale of a property at Nedre Ranheim. The total proceeds are approximately NOK 240 million. "This...