A scheme for reducing global carbon emissions by slowing deforestation in tropical countries has changed drastically and become “aid-ified” since it was first floated in 2005, according to a major new publication on the subject. From its early days, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest...
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CIFOR |
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ForestTalk |
11 years 11 months ago
The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) union has come out against British Columbia’s proposal to open up protected areas to logging. “It’s just short term gain for probably long term pain,” said Arnold Bercov, the forest resource officer for the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada,...
CIFOR |
11 years 11 months ago
Analysing REDD+: Challenges and choices June, 2012. Angelsen, A.; Brockhaus, M.; Sunderlin, W.D.; Verchot, L.V. (eds). Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. 426 pages. ISBN: 978-602-8693-80-6
Demara Waves |
11 years 11 months ago
Prime Minister of Norway Mr. Jens Stoltenberg has reaffirmed the country’s support for the implementation of Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) which continues to be hailed as a model for sustainable development, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA).
11 years 11 months ago
This week, I published a short policy brief with the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. Entitled ‘Unready for REDD+? Lessons from Corruption in Ugandan Conservation Areas‘, the brief reviews coverage of a recent scandal involving a US $37...
Orissa Diary |
11 years 11 months ago
ecalling the 2009 U.S.-India MOU on clean energy, energy efficiency, energy security and climate change, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Minister of External Affairs S.M.
IBI-Times |
11 years 11 months ago
Five major corporations will join the emergency campaign to save the world's threatened forests by pledging to buy REDD multimillion dollar credits from projects protecting threatened forests around the world, the campaign announced Tuesday at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development,...
New Matilda |
11 years 11 months ago
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week urged the international community to protect its forests, in the wake of forestry issues being sidelined at Rio+20 conference on sustainable development to be held later this month. "Sustainable forestry is critical to our efforts at...
InternationalForestIndustries |
11 years 11 months ago
Log supply from Australia’s timber plantations is set to increase substantially according to a new report, released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). Australia’s plantation log supply 2010-2054 forecasts the volume of plantation logs available...
CIFOR |
11 years 11 months ago
Legal clarity and consensus on which government institutions have the authority to make regulations on how to share benefits from REDD+ among stakeholders are critical to ensure the process’ legitimacy and avoid future disputes, recommended a study conducted by the Center for International Forestry...
Daily News Tanzania |
11 years 11 months ago
AN audit report by Ernst & Young has established that 400,000 US dollars (approx. 624m/-) was misappropriated by the WWF local staff who forged hotel, taxi receipts and direct corruption. As a result of the audit report, eight employees have been terminated while six have resigned during the...
Copenhagen Post |
11 years 11 months ago
Three Danish aid projects in Vietnam have been shut down following reports of widespread fraud. The development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), cut off funding to all three projects after an independent review by Price Waterhouse Coopers uncovered “numerous irregularities”.
Kaieteur News Online |
11 years 11 months ago
The Indian coffee company which was given a forestry concession to mainly carry out value added activities has said that its main plant will in fact be in India and not Guyana. This raises concerns that the company will continue to export logs out of Guyana. Two months ago the company, Vaitarna...
Think African |
11 years 11 months ago
With the lyrics of American rap legend Tupac Shakur pumping from the car stereo, 36-year-old Steve Okoikpi manoeuvres his Mercedes Benz through sharp bends on the road. The destination is Akasanko, a forest community of about 500 people on the outskirts of Calabar, the capital of Cross River State...
Spiegel |
11 years 11 months ago
Want to protect the rainforest? All it takes is €5 ($6.30) to get started. Save the gorillas? Three euros and you're in. You can even do your part for nature with only 50 cents -- as long as you entrust it to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which is still known by its original name of the...
InternationalForestIndustries |
11 years 11 months ago
New Zealand Exports The first quarter log import totals from New Zealand into China equaled just over 1.5 million cubic metres. This is down 25% on the last quarter of 2011 and down 17% year-on-year for the first quarter. New Zealand still maintained 25% of the market share of Chinese imports in...
Greenwood Investment |
11 years 11 months ago
Ikea has come under heavy criticism for failing to use sustainable forestry for making its wooden furniture. The Swedish company has been found to have cleared old-growth forests in the north of Russia in Karelia through its wholly-owned subsidiary Swedwood.
Boston.com |
11 years 11 months ago
China has made significant progress in restoring its forest cover while also allowing residents to make a living from plantations, forest products and tourism, the RRI report says. In southwestern China’s Tengchong area, local communities are allowed to vote on whether to manage the forests...
Vietnam Times |
11 years 11 months ago
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the German consulting company GITEC Consult GmbH have agreed to partner in biodiversity conservation in southern Laos under a project set to run until 2018. A cooperation contract was jointly signed yesterday by the ministry's Department of Forest...
InternationalForestIndustries |
11 years 11 months ago
The city of Melbourne has been revealed as the location for an architectural world first. New plans were unveiled last Friday showing that the city will receive a unique addition to its iconic skyline - the world’s tallest timber high-rise building. Major industry leaders Lend Lease have revealed...