UGRA NATIONAL PARK, Kaluga Region — Viktor Grishenkov uses the weight of his spade to open a slit in the sandy ground, inserts a 30-centimeter oak seedling into the hole and packs the earth tight around it with his foot. “All right. Come back in a hundred years and see how it’s going.” He takes...
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The Moscow Times |
13 years 6 months ago
The White House Press |
13 years 6 months ago
Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama reaffirm our commitment to changing the lives of the 1.2 billion poor people in the world today. Recent success and new technologies provide hope and opportunities to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Forest Carbon Asia |
13 years 6 months ago
Date: May, 2011 Authors: Unna Chokkalingam & S. Anuradha Vanniarachchy Publication Type: Report
Paperindex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
Montreal, Canada, May 26, 2011 – Forest products industry CEOs from around the world see an important opportunity ahead as a more competitive and significantly transformed industry emerges from the recent global economic downturn. This assessment came at the conclusion of International Council of...
Environmental Research Web |
13 years 6 months ago
Researchers in the US have, for the first time, quantified the indirect effect that changing pasture land over to soy or biofuel production can have on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. When a soy farmer buys pasture and turns it to soy production, this does not have a direct effect on...
Mongabay |
13 years 6 months ago
A controversial bill environmentalists say could increase deforestation in the Amazon rainforest moved a step forward to becoming law in Brazil after winning approval in Brazil's lower house of Congress. The measure, which has been hotly debated for months, next goes to the Senate where it is...
RUNA |
13 years 6 months ago
At the beginning of the year the Ministry of Industrial Development, Transport and Communication of the region has called for tender aimed at research work during which the quantity and the quality of woodworking residues will be assessed and after that a recommendation will be issued regarding...
CIFOR |
13 years 6 months ago
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (24 May, 2011)_Bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society and practitioners on development issues is quite challenging. Particularly more challenging is policy response towards climate change adaptation and mitigation in Congo Basin forests.
Climate Connections |
13 years 6 months ago
San Francisco, May 23 – San Francisco’s Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE) announced today that it received the judge’s writ in its lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board (CARB); the writ gives the green light to most of the policies advanced under AB32, California’s...
Bloomberg |
13 years 6 months ago
The Asian Development Bank is spending $60 million to help set up three venture capital funds developing climate-change technology in China and India, the Manila-based lender said in an e-mailed statement today.
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
Helsinki, Finland, May 23, 2011 – UPM is one of the very first companies to achieve multinational corporate registration under the revised EMAS III regulation, the EU’s Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme. UPM’s corporate registration includes 15 pulp and paper mills in five EU countries...
Paperindex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
Helsinki, Finland, May 20, 2011 – UPM participates in ENO – Environment Online’s Tree Planting Day on May 20 in United Kingdom, Uruguay and Finland. The annual event is part of UPM’s partnership with ENO, a global virtual school and network for sustainable development. ENO has been running since...
Paperindex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, May 23, 2011- Sappi Southern Africa today announced that it had initiated a consultation process with staff and relevant Union representatives to cease operations at Adamas Mill in Port Elizabeth in response to difficult market conditions and sustained input costs...
The Hindu |
13 years 6 months ago
Himachal Pradesh became the first State in the country on Sunday to sign an agreement with the World Bank for securing carbon credits for its ‘Clean Development Mechanism' project in 11 watershed divisions under Mid Himalayan Watershed Development Project. The project named ‘Reforestation...
Commodities Now |
13 years 6 months ago
New York Times |
13 years 6 months ago
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, a Brazilian rain forest activist, and his wife are shot dead near their home in Para State, in the Amazon. In a speech last year, Mr. da Silva acknowledged that his work battling illegal loggers put him in grave danger. “I will protect the forest at all costs. That...
Timber Community |
13 years 6 months ago
Danske Bank writes in their latest newsletter about the price of timber. They write that timber prices was depressed during the last two quarters, while timber prices have not fallen to the same extent. They note that there are currently very few mills that reports black numbers. From the time...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
If you think timber operations and paper mills cause deforestation, consider this finding from a new U.S. Forest Service study of Southern forests: “Strong timber markets encourage retaining forests rather than converting them to other land uses.”
International Forest Industries |
13 years 6 months ago
The demand for some types of paper, like newsprint and other printing and writing paper will decrease in the next decade but the many other uses for wood fibre will mean dramatic increases in global demand overall, according to a new report from PwC.
International Forest Industries |
13 years 6 months ago
Britain on Tuesday unveiled plans to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 per cent from 1990 levels by 2025, ramping up pressure on the European Union to increase its target. The new target is a big jump forward for Britain in its carbon-cutting ambitions and puts it far head of the EU as a...