Below is a directory of terms used in the debate about reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Most of the terms have been reproduced from the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the...
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OneWorld |
14 years 6 months ago
After years of darkness as a failed state, Liberia is rebuilding its state institutions, determined to rejoin the international community. Unfortunately, no amount of reforming zeal of a single small country can overturn the threat of climate breakdown or rising tides.
India Carbon Outlook |
14 years 6 months ago
The mechanism of REDD has not yet been officially implemented in India, though there is considerable scope of its implementation, considering the extent of India’s forest cover. However, there is also potential for its misuse, as well as plenty of challenges.
The Financial Post |
14 years 6 months ago
As the adage goes, the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the second best time is now. Ideally, investors planted their money into forestry early enough to see their money grow along with the recent surge in commodity and equity prices. But the second best time to invest money smartly in...
The Australian Institute |
14 years 6 months ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australia's failure to accurately measure and predict emissions from deforestation, and the difficulty it has had in reducing deforestation, should send a warning signal to the world, according to a study from The Australian National University.
CNW |
14 years 6 months ago
TORONTO, May 9, 2010 /CNW/ - Sino-Forest Corporation ("Sino-Forest") (TSX: TRE), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, is pleased to announce that Sino-Capital Global Inc.
EFI |
14 years 6 months ago
BRUSSELS and YAOUNDÉ (6 May 2010)—The European Union (EU) and the Government of Cameroon today announced a trade agreement in which Africa’s biggest exporter of tropical hardwood to Europe has agreed to ensure wood traded within the country and shipped from Cameroon to the EU and other...
Winnipeg Free Press |
14 years 6 months ago
The deep economic downturn that cut U.S. demand for Canadian lumber significantly for several years has had an upside for Canfor Corp., which turned its focus to Asia and discovered "exponential growth" during the first quarter. "There so many opportunities in China, it's really a stretch of the...
Business Daily Africa |
14 years 6 months ago
Investors from industrialised countries are racing to strike financing deals with Kenya in partnerships set to open new avenues for donor support as the world switches to green economy. Prime Minister Raila Odinga says several investment bankers and overseas investors are currently engaged in...
Engineering News |
14 years 6 months ago
Paper and packaging group Mondi would sell its Europapier business to Austrian paper and pulp manufacturer the Heinzel Group for €60-million in cash, it announced on Wednesday. The JSE- and LSE-listed Mondi noted that the proceeds of the sale would be used to reduce its net debt. “This is an...
News Time Africa |
14 years 6 months ago
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said the country is keen to partner with investment bankers to promote trading in carbon markets and ensure the rehabilitation of the Mau and other threatened forests in the country. “ We see opportunities in the evolving carbon markets as negotiations...
Business Week |
14 years 6 months ago
(Updates with Sandor comment in third, 14th and 15th paragraphs.) By Mathew Carr and Simon Lomax April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Sandor agreed to sell Climate Exchange Plc to Intercontinental Exchange Inc., exiting the biggest carbon market before he could establish a global mechanism for...
People Com CN |
14 years 6 months ago
Though opinions were still poles asunder, participants at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue emerged from three days of discussion which ended Tuesday with guarded optimism. They based their optimism on hopes of reviving stalled debate and rekindling practical cooperation among those who attended...
Business Week |
14 years 6 months ago
May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican and German efforts to bring together delegates from more than 40 countries helped push climate negotiations forward even though they produced no tangible achievement, Germany’s environment envoy said today. The three-day Bonn meeting “built up trust” and helped to “...
Forexyard |
14 years 6 months ago
INDONESIA-LOGGING/USA * Indonesian illegal logging hurting U.S. industry -report * Trade tools can help clean up the sector * Illegal logging threat to efforts to fight climate change By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia
Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 6 months ago
Investor interest in forestry is building, driven by climate change concerns, shifting and growing markets for forestry products – and the good, old-fashioned portfolio diversification benefits of an asset class which weathered the financial crisis much better than most and which offers stable...
NYT |
14 years 6 months ago
LOWELL, Ore. — Booming timber towns with three-shift lumber mills are a distant memory in the densely forested Northwest. Now, with the housing market and the economy in crisis, some rural areas have never been more raw. Mills keep closing. People keep leaving. Unemployment in some counties is...
Stabroek News |
14 years 6 months ago
The report on the Norway-Guyana MoU is an unusual event in the normally secretive apparatus of government in Guyana.
14 years 6 months ago
Notwithstanding issues affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of forest and forest land allocation policies, Vietnam is at a cross-road at the time market-based mechanisms for forest conservation, such as REDD, are attracting an increasing and vibrant interest in international Climate Change...
14 years 6 months ago
On April 21th, 2010 a public debate on Forestry, Climate Change, and Poverty will take place at Litteraturhuset, Oslo. With the title of “Can Saving Trees Save the Planet?” the debate was organized and hosted by Center for Environment and Development (SUM), University of Oslo and it is part of...