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Ireland is considering to sell it's forests

Sun, 31/03/2013 - 19:57 — Markus Sommerauer

Well, to put important things first...

I am sorry for attracting your attention by stating a misleading topic - Ireland isn't considering to sell it's forests to lower the national debt.

It's just considering to sell the harvesting rights of the forests to lower the national debt...

 

Some short history...

Ireland has established it's own commercial company to take care of Irelands' forests: Coillte.

So what is Coillte?

The real drivers of deforestation and forest degradation

Sat, 29/12/2012 - 06:45 — Markus Sommerauer

The actual causes of deforestation -- above all, the already unsustainable demand agricultural products in the North -- were considered a far lower priority in Doha than carbon market-related accounting. Nonetheless, some governments, especially those of the UK and Norway, paid at least lip service to them.

Combating climate change on credit

Thu, 20/12/2012 - 17:31 — Markus Sommerauer

An article of Aljazeera - the topic says everything...

You're buying an airplane ticket online. Scroll to the bottom of the website, and there's an option to "buy carbon credits" to "offset" the climate change-inducing emissions you are about to produce during your flight.

It sounds like an attractive, market-based way to appease your environmental conscience - and quite affordably, too. But what are you actually buying? And how much - if any - difference can it really make in the fight against global warming?

REDD+: The Doha Results so far

Sun, 09/12/2012 - 19:37 — Markus Sommerauer

Sustain2Green:

REDD Text Limps Out Of Doha – Healthy, Homeless, And Broke

REDD Text Limps Out Of Doha – Healthy, Homeless, And Broke
 

Deceptive campaigning of environmental NGOs still ongoing...

Mon, 29/10/2012 - 05:46 — Markus Sommerauer

"A guide to raise funds to save forests" - a brand new publication (October 2012) by "The Global Canopy Program"

 

The Different Colours of REDD

Wed, 10/10/2012 - 05:45 — Markus Sommerauer

Ilona Jankovits  -  320217-  Msc Global Business and Stakeholder Management - The Different Colours of REDD

Ever wondered how REDD+ really works?

Fri, 31/08/2012 - 18:54 — Markus Sommerauer

"Developed countries have vowed to help the developing world get up to speed on REDD, and many say they’re putting up billions towards the effort. Few, however, have actually followed through on their promises, and those who say they have aren’t doing a good job of proving it. The REDD+ Expenditures Tracking Project aims to change that."

There is a nice article at the Website of Ecosystem Marketplace from Kelli Barrett. I just start to cite the first paragraph - read further at there site:

Will trees grow better when finding more CO2 in the atmosphere or not?

Sat, 28/07/2012 - 18:05 — Markus Sommerauer

The Telegraph:

We're told, endlessly, that climate change will mean the end of the Amazon, of the tropical forests, and the Earth will lose its lungs. It appears that this is not wholly and completely true. Actually, an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is likely to lead to the growth of huge, new, tropical forests.

The report is in Nature and this is the important point:

Forests fare poorly in outcomes of Rio+20

Mon, 09/07/2012 - 07:13 — Markus Sommerauer

BY Michelle Kovacevic, CIFOR

(CIFOR - June 26, 2012) - Forests have been largely ignored or ambiguously mentioned in the Rio+20 outcome document, yet again postponing progress on integrating forests into sustainable development objectives, said CIFOR scientists at the conclusion of the Rio+20 summit last week.

The madness of renewable biomass power keeps on going

Tue, 22/05/2012 - 07:12 — Markus Sommerauer

In the south-eastern part of Poland GDF SUEZ is going to replace of a coal-fired boiler at the Polaniec S.A. power plant by a new biomass fluidized bed boiler with a capacity of 480 megawatt.

The planned 180 MWe biomass power station is going to be the largest biomass power plant of the world.

Just for your records: the guys there are planning to destroy biomass in the amount of approximately 300 MW. As for any biomass power plant only 40% of the biomass chipped into the boiler will transform to electric energy.

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