Der Wald ist ein deutlich größerer CO2-Speicher als bisher angenommen. Zwischen 1990 und 2007 hat er aktuellen Berechnungen zufolge rund ein Drittel des Kohlenstoffs, der in dieser Zeit durch die Verwendung fossiler Brennstoffe freigesetzt wurde, geschluckt.
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ORF |
13 years 4 months ago
Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, Richard Houghton, Pekka E. Kauppi, Werner A. Kurz, Oliver L. Phillips, Anatoly Shvidenko, Simon L. Lewis, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen Pacala, A. David McGuire, Shilong Piao, Aapo Rautiainen, Stephen Sitch, Daniel Hayes....
Timber Community |
13 years 4 months ago
The European Commission has approved the deal in which the Finnish forestry company UPM buys competitor Myllykoski writes YLE. It was in December, UPM announced the deal, but the Commission was concerned that it would push up the price of newsprint. The deal is worth about EUR 900 million and the...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 4 months ago
Finland, Jul 13, 2011 - The forest industry purchased 4 million cubic metres of wood in June and all timber grades were in good demand. The volume of purchases doubled from May, matching the volume achieved in June last year. Timber prices were high, translating into excellent earnings for forest...
The Jakarta Post |
13 years 4 months ago
Indigenous communities in Central Kalimantan are calling on the government to stop a pilot project to alleviate the destruction of forests amid fears that it would prompt conflicts between local communities. People living in and around forested areas in the province said they were not adequately...
Vietnam News |
13 years 4 months ago
HCM CITY — A road completed four years ago has lured farmers who have cleared hundreds of hectares of evergreen forest in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong's Lac Duong District. The road provides a shortcut between the coastal city of Nha Trang to the Highlands city of Da Lat, facilitating...
Brunei Times |
13 years 4 months ago
BRUNEI'S forestry official yesterday stressed the importance of the involvement of local community and not only rely on the government in a bid to promote sustainable forest management and easing reliance. Mahmud Yussof , acting director of Forestry, made this statement as senior officials...
Brunei Times |
13 years 4 months ago
BRUNEI'S deforestation rate from 2005 to 2010 was among the lowest in Southeast Asia, according to the Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC). During the period, deforestation in Brunei was recorded at an average annual rate of change of less than 0.5 per cent. Laos shared a similar record in...
CIFOR |
13 years 4 months ago
Malaysia is the world’s largest exporter and the second largest producer of crude palm oil. The government has sought to promote the production of biodiesel derived from palm-oil to capitalise on the growing international demand for biofuels, seen as an alternative to fossil fuels amidst concerns...
CIFOR |
13 years 4 months ago
This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the wood flows from smallholder plantations to industrial buyers in the Binh Dinh and Phu Tho provinces of Vietnam. It describes the actors involved in the market chains, their respective roles, the value added to the wood in the market chain and...
International ForestIndustries |
13 years 4 months ago
Thomson Airways will become Britain’s first airline to fly customers on biofuel — one made from cooking oil — when it operates a service to Spain later this month. The British airline, owned by Europe’s biggest tour operator TUI Travel , said on Friday it planned to operate the flight from...
International ForestIndustries |
13 years 4 months ago
Wood costs, which account for up 70 percent of production costs when manufacturing pulp, have gone up worldwide the past two years, according to the market report Wood Resource Quarterly. The Global Wood Fiber Price Indices were back to pre-financial crises levels in the 1Q/11.
International ForestIndustries |
13 years 4 months ago
The data on pre-commercial thinning is the highest recorded in over a year. According to the Swedish Forest Agency’s annual surveys conducted on silviculture measures the soil scarification was carried out on 157,500 hectares and 157,200 hectares were planted with seedlings in 2010. There is a...
13 years 4 months ago
The Forest Industry Engineering Association together with most of the major financial and forestry industry associations in Australia and New Zealand ran an inaugural Future Forestry Finance Conference series in Sydney and Auckland in early March 2010. The turnout exceeded expectations. Over 200...
International ForestIndustries |
13 years 4 months ago
High inventory levels in Chinese ports have now converted to a lowering of in-market (CFR) pricing for New Zealand logs. A similar situation occurred this time last year when China was importing what were then record volumes of logs. In the January to April 2011 period China imported over 9 million...
News India MSN |
13 years 4 months ago
New Delhi, July 3 (PTI) What constitutes a forest in India? There is no answer for this simple and plain question even 62 years after independence if one goes by a RTI reply from the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The reason cited by the ministry in its reply is that "definition" of forests...
ForestCarbon Asia |
13 years 4 months ago
The 2011 Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Partnership Forum took place from 24-25 June 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Forum was organized by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank, in collaboration with other multilateral development bank (MDB) partners. It brought together...
The Indonesian |
13 years 4 months ago
Theindonesiatoday.com - First Growth Funds Limited group reports its joint venture with Greencollar Group (GCS), First Growth Forests (FGFJV), has commenced the world’s first program to develop forestry carbon projects for the whole of a province in West Papua. “Developing projects at the landscape...
EU |
13 years 4 months ago
Unclear and/or insecure forest tenure has been identified by many as an indirect driver of deforestation and forest degradation. Consequently, reforming tenure is considered an important measure in order to control deforestation. Clarifying tenure is also seen as a way of promoting equitable REDD+...