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Free trade negotiations and a continued commitment to the emissions trading scheme are important to support further forestry sector growth, Prime Minister John Key said. Forestry, New Zealand’s third largest export industry, brought in an estimated $3.7 billion of export earnings export in...

The voluntary carbon market remains sluggish, hit hard by the global financial crisis and ongoing worldwide recession, but life is flickering in the forest carbon segment. Voluntary carbon buyers are in the market but taking much longer to carry out their buying programmes knowing they are in a...

Continued investment in forestry is a "no brainer" at a time when the Government is looking for money for limited financial resources, Fine Gael has insisted. The sector returns €1.59 for every €1 invested, according to the Department of Agriculture's own studies, said FG's agriculture...

(Reuters) - A global market in forest carbon offsets under a U.N.-backed scheme will take three to seven years to develop in part because of the stalled U.S. climate bill, a top Indonesian forest investor said. The United Nations says the scheme, called reduced emissions from deforestation...

Annual revenue flow to developing countries for ecotourism (or nature-based tourism) could be as large as US$ 210×1012, providing an enormous financial incentive against habitat loss and exploitation. However, is ecotourism the most privately and/or socially valuable use of rainforest land? The...

ArcelorMittal Bio-energy is responsible for the production and marketing of the renewable commodities such as charcoal, wood, seeds and seedlings from the formation of Eucalyptus forests. From 2011-2016 the firm plans to invest $390 million with the aim to expand the production of charcoal from...

4 October 2010, Rome - The world's forest biodiversity is threatened by a high global rate of deforestation and forest degradation as well as a decline in primary forest area. In many countries, however, there is a continued positive trend towards the conservation of forest biological...

A new scheme is being tested that will help businesses find out the real potential of tree planting projects designed to sequester carbon. The Forestry Commission is set to begin testing a quality assurance scheme, the Woodland Carbon Code, which will provide businesses with transparency about...

Genetically altered trees could help reduce global warming, according to a study released Friday in the journal BioScience. The study, led by a team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, analyzed ways plants process carbon dioxide and convert it into forms...