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.”
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PaperIndex Times |
13 years 6 months ago
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...
ORF |
13 years 6 months ago
Es hat fast zwölf Stunden gedauert. Doch letztlich triumphierte die brasilianische Agrarlobby über die Umweltschützer. Brasiliens Parlament stimmte einer Aufweichung des strengen Waldschutzgesetzes von 1965 zu. Für die neue Präsidentin Dilma Rousseff ist das eine große Schlappe. Bis zuletzt hatte...
My Republica |
13 years 6 months ago
International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated worldwide on May 22 to further our understanding of biodiversity issues. This year, the International Day for Biological Diversity highlights ‘Forest Biodiversity’ to complement the International Year of Forests 2011, declared by the UN...
Anti-Corruption Centre |
13 years 6 months ago
Kaieteur News |
13 years 6 months ago
Government has unveiled a major hinterland project that will see 10,500 homes being equipped with solar power. The programme is being executed by the Project Management Office, Office of the President, with the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for procurement and monitoring activities....
Business Daily Africa |
13 years 6 months ago
Kenyan companies investing in carbon trading projects are set to benefit from a new fund set up by IFC to cover a financing gap arising from the European Union’s decision to stop buying carbon credits from developing countries beginning next year. The 150 million euros or Sh18.3 billion...
Mongabay |
13 years 6 months ago
The co-founder of an initiative that discourages illegal logging by bringing affordable, high quality health care to impoverished communities in Indonesian Borneo has been recognized with a prestigious conservation award. Dr. Hotlin Ompusunggu, co-founder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), was this...
CIFOR |
13 years 6 months ago
BOGOR, Indonesia (21 May, 2011)_Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD+, means a difficult shift to a new paradigm where economic growth in Indonesia is attained by leaving trees standing, said Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of the country’s taskforce that’s preparing...
Bloomberg |
13 years 6 months ago
May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Companies that unknowingly buy fake carbon-offset credits in California’s planned cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases shouldn’t be forced to replace them with real ones, according to emissions traders.
Timber Community |
13 years 6 months ago
The Namibian |
13 years 6 months ago
THE Hindu people of India have a saying in their language stating, “if there is forest there is life and if there life there is forest.”
Times of India |
13 years 6 months ago
NEW DELHI: The government has drawn the attention of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) secretariat to the terms that was agreed upon at Cancun in December 2010, but have not been reflected in sections of the released document. The Union ministry of...
The REDD Desk |
13 years 6 months ago
Ecosystem Marketplace |
13 years 6 months ago
20 May 2011 | Guyanese Finance Minister Ashni Singh was ebullient when he and his Norwegian counterpart, Erik Solheim, officially launched the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) last October.
Climate Connect |
13 years 6 months ago
New Delhi, 20 May 2011: India could soon have its first project registered under the UN's mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). A pilot project in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya being run jointly by a California-based non-profit organization and a local...
World and Trust |
13 years 6 months ago
In 2010, the World Land Trust (WLT) ran a training programme to enable African NGOs (non-governmental organisations) to benefit from opportunities for carbon funding. The programme focused on REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation-Plus), as it is considered the most...
FOCALI |
13 years 6 months ago
European Parliament adopts report on the Commission Green Paper on Forest Protection and Information
The European Parliament (EP) adopted (at its sitting on 11 May 2011) the Report on the Commission Green Paper on forest protection and information in the EU - preparing forests for climate change . The report was drafted by Kriton Arsenis (Greece, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists...