There has recently been quite some discussion on the REDD planning, with REDD the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. This also applies to Indonesia and India, where we live. A PLEA FOR A REDD plus plus APPROACH (with a massive participatory raising and...
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Physorg |
13 years 5 months ago
Agrometerology |
13 years 5 months ago
Agrometerology |
13 years 5 months ago
Dear colleagues, Kees Stigter and Mohan Reddy Vishwavaram make a fair point in their article "A Plea for a REDD++ approach". Having said that it seems we, the environmentally conscious community-of-practice are either suffering from mass amnesia, or are determined to remain on the fringe of...
SADC |
13 years 5 months ago
In a recently conducted survey among government officials and decision-makers from the SADC Member States on climate change issues, more than 90% of respondents identified REDD+ as an important, quite important or very important issue in the international climate change negotiations. There are...
Business Green and Newswire |
13 years 5 months ago
World Bank Releases 2011 "State and Trends of the Carbon Market" Report Barcelona, June 1, 2011 (MMD Newswire) June 1, 2011 - - The World Bank's annual review of the global carbon market shows that 2010 was a watershed year as the market ended five years of robust growth with a slight decline...
Nature |
13 years 5 months ago
A scheme to pay people in developing countries to curb carbon emissions from deforestation is plagued by 'leakage' — trees that aren't cut down in one forest are just cut down in another to provide people with the resources they would have foregone. But a study by an international team of...
RUNA |
13 years 5 months ago
The price growth took place in January and March 2011, while in February the prices decreased. The average price for chip-boards grew by 25.4 % in the first quarter of 2011 as compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The most significant was the increase in the average price for...
Newswire |
13 years 5 months ago
TORONTO, June 3, 2011 /CNW/ - Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE) ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company"), a leading commercial forest plantation operator in China, today commented on the share price decline on June 2, 2011 as a result of the allegations made in a 'report' issued on a website by a short...
Wild Singapore |
13 years 5 months ago
FORESTS As Life Support is the theme of World Environment Day this Sunday. But as Indonesian government officials and environmentalists alike celebrate the vital role the nation's forests play in sustaining biodiversity and maintaining a stable global climate, they remain deeply divided about the...
DEFRA |
13 years 5 months ago
The true value of nature can be shown for the very first time thanks to groundbreaking research by hundreds of UK scientists. The research forms the basis of a major new independent report – the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK NEA) – which reveals that nature is worth billions of pounds to...
SciDev |
13 years 5 months ago
Alien plant species can significantly reduce biodiversity but they can also boost an ecosystem's biomass production, on average by more than half, according to a global analysis of scientific literature.
Reuters |
13 years 5 months ago
(Reuters) - Rising forest density in many countries is helping to offset climate change caused by deforestation from the Amazon basin to Indonesia, a study showed on Sunday.
Mongabay, Nature, BusinessGreen |
13 years 5 months ago
MONGABAY.COM: 90% of tropical forests managed poorly or not at all More than 90 percent of tropical forests are managed poorly or not at all, says a new assessment by the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO).
Bloomberg |
13 years 5 months ago
Togo, Nigeria and Ghana have the biggest rates of deforestation out of 65 nations, according to a study described by its authors as the most comprehensive analysis of tropical forests.
RUNA |
13 years 5 months ago
The credits will be used to create a new sawmilling production at the territory of the plant and to implement the project «The upgrading of the woodworking facilities and the creation of forestry complexes». The payment guarantor on credits for the banks shall be OJSC Solombala Pulp-and-Paper...
Greenwood Management |
13 years 5 months ago
Wood costs for the global pulp industry have risen 17 per cent in the past two years, according to market reports. Global market pulp production increased by seven per cent in 2010, which, in turn, boosted demand for wood raw material and pushed up prices for wood chips and pulp logs in most...
Business Green |
13 years 5 months ago
Investing just 0.034 per cent of global GDP could transform the world's forestry sector, halving deforestation rates, slashing carbon emissions and creating up to five million new jobs by the middle of the century. That is the conclusion of a major new report from the UN Environment Programme (...
Klimaaktiv |
13 years 5 months ago
Marktanalyse II: Energieholzpreise Das vorliegende Dokument ist das zweite in einer Serie, die laufend erweitert wird und sich jeweils einem bestimmten Teilbereich des Energieholzmarktes widmet, mit Zahlen, Daten und Fakten zum Energieholzaufkommen, Energieholzmarkt und Energieholzverbrauch....
Austria, Bark, External News, Österreich, Rinde, Waldhackgut, Wood residues, Pellets, Wood chips, Hackgut, Pellets, Schnittholz, Holzbiomasse, Sägenebenprodukte, Pulpwood, Sägespäne, Roundwood, Rundholz, Sägerundholz, sawlogs, Holzfaser/Faser+ Schleifholz, Saw dust, Biomasse, Sawn timber, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Fibre, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy
Klimaaktiv |
13 years 5 months ago
Price analyses of wooden bioenergy in Austria: Charts and Study are in German language - english legends enclosed by ForesIndustries.EU:
Austria, Bark, External News, Österreich, Rinde, Forest energy, Waldhackgut, Wood residues, Pellets, Wood chips, Hackgut, Pellets, Schnittholz, Sägenebenprodukte, Pulpwood, Sägespäne, Roundwood, Rundholz, Sägerundholz, sawlogs, Holzfaser/Faser+ Schleifholz, Saw dust, Biomasse, Sawn timber, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Fibre, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy
Climate-I |
13 years 5 months ago
31 May 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released its annual report, titled "Focus on Forests: Time to Act," which includes eight stories outlining CIFOR's global work.