Project manager of Novoeniseysky LKhK pellet mill construction (Krasnoyarsk Kray) Alari Roosi has visited the enterprise again after a month and a half since the launch of production. The goal of the trip is to become personally certain that the new mill with the estimated annual capacity of 30...
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RUNA |
13 years 9 months ago
The National Business Review |
13 years 9 months ago
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...
Fair Deal Investments |
13 years 9 months ago
Timber and timberland have traditionally been investment vehicles for institutional investors because of the amount of capital required. There are however, excellent opportunities in today’s timber and timberland investment marketplace for small retail investors.
Carbon Positive |
13 years 9 months ago
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...
TT Online |
13 years 9 months ago
The Tropical Forest Foundation (TFF) is examining the feasibility of establishing a sustainable forestry management training centre in Peru. Its study comes at a time when Peru is struggling to meet the forestry requirements of its trade promotion agreement with the US.
The Independent |
13 years 9 months ago
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 |
13 years 9 months ago
(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...
MISSOULIAN |
13 years 9 months ago
The University of Montana is literally getting fired up about renewable energy. UM is making plans to produce its own energy in the future by building a $16 million, wood-fired biomass boiler alongside its existing heating plant on the east side of campus. It will be the largest industrial-sized...
13 years 9 months ago
Annual revenue flow to developing countries for ecotourism (or nature-based tourism) could be as large as US$ 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...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 9 months ago
Stora Enso and Neste Oil launch environmental impact assessment for a new renewable diesel plant. Stora Enso's and Neste Oil's joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy, is to commence environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland. The two locations...
Forestry Investment BLOG |
13 years 9 months ago
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...
Carbon Positive |
13 years 9 months ago
The CDM’s forest carbon rules surrounding eligibility of both land and activity type need to be reformed if the forest sector is going to make its contribution to the climate change mitigation effort, argues Dr Promode Kant of India’s Institute of Green Economy:
FAO |
13 years 9 months ago
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...
BAIGANCHOKA |
13 years 9 months ago
Last week, President Jagdeo noted that the financial agreement between Norway and Guyana via the Forest Protection Memorandum will see Guyana with the first installment of 30 million USD this week.
Green Investing |
13 years 9 months ago
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...
The National Post |
13 years 9 months ago
Fast Start Finance in Climate Mitigation: Environment Minister Jim Prentice unveiled details on how the government will spend $400-million previously pledged in international aid funds to fight climate change during a weekend climate conference in Waterloo.
BLOG News CNN |
13 years 9 months ago
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...
Embassy of Finland in Vietnam |
13 years 9 months ago
A workshop to discuss a report aiming for technical assistance in the Development of the National REDD programme (United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) for Vietnam was organised at the ministry of...