--- Canadian Forestindustries News ---
2012-05-18 17:39 |
One of the four pension plan groups at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper voted against giving Kruger 10 years, instead of 5, to repay the shortfall in their pension plans.
Results of the vote:
-Pension Plan for Unionized Employees:
-Active members (326): ……………177 objections ……….54.3%
-Retired members (617): ……...
--- Canadian Forestindustries News II ---
2012-05-18 15:25 |
Pension plan funding relief measures rejected by active unionized employees
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-18 11:39 |
Wall Street Journal, 17 May 2012 | Europe's economic misery is having some unlikely consequences for its climate-change bulwark, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). European utilities are returning to coal—the dirty, high-emissions stuff that the cap-and-trade program was supposed to make less economically sensible for power companies. So far this year, coal-fired power generation in Germany has grown to 68% from 53% as a share of nuclear and fossil-fuel generation, according to the Leipzig-...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-18 11:21 |
By Nina Chestney and Oleg Vukmanovic, Reuters, 16 May 2012 | The chance of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius this century is getting slimmer and slimmer, the head of the International Energy Agency warned on Wednesday. "What I see now with existing investments for plants under construction... we are seeing the door for a 2 degree Celsius target about to be closed and closed forever," Fatih Birol, the IEA's chief economist, told a Reuters' Global Energy &...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 10:02 |
Reference Emission Levels (gross) and Reference Levels (net) requires the combination of a land use transition matrix and typical C stocks per land use type. Four ways of calculating REL for any (sub) national entity are:
- REL/RL1A: Projected emissions are based on historical emissions
- REL/RL1B: Projected emissions are based on historical emissions relative to remaining carbon pools
- REL/RL2: Future emissions are projected based on land use plans (forward-...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 09:50 |
Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions exist across all sectors of the economy and across a wide geographic area, but emissions from forest and peatland conversion dominate the field, as well as the public debate. With the advent of REDD+, the introduction of an Indonesian action plan for emissions reduction under the remit of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA), and the potential for increased financial flows into carbon-rich landscapes, the question of how to...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 09:42 |
The cultivation of cash crops in the understorey of tropical forests is an ancient practice, but the effects of cultivation on forest ecosystem processes are poorly understood. Authors assessed the effects of planting the high-value spice crop cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) on forest structure, tree species composition, and soil properties in the montane forests of the Knuckles Forest Reserve in central Sri Lanka, where cardamom cultivation has been banned since 1985 because of the high...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 09:26 |
Objectives of this meeting is to support the development of tree biomass and volume AE. Specific themes to be addressed include the following;
- Data analysis and model development;
- Statistical analysis and accuracy assessment for biomass and carbon stock assessment;
- Institutional issues and roles (development, QC and data management);
- Identify gaps and future steps
Please...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 08:48 |
The outcome of China’s planned carbon emissions scheme could have a transforming effect on efforts to tackle climate change, experts say. China is preparing to run pilot carbon trading schemes beginning in 2013 in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Hubei and Guangdong , major cities with a combined population of 250 million people. The government’s goal is to introduce a national trading scheme by 2015, just two years after the seven pilot programs are scheduled to...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 08:07 |
Over 25 years after people stopped growing cardamom in Sri Lanka’s Knuckles Forest Reserve (KFR), the spice crop is still having an impact on the forest, according to a recent study in Forest Ecology and Management. The clearing of understory plants and the use of fertilizers continue to shape the forest in the protected area.
Cardamom is grown in the shade of the rainforest canopy and so does not require deforestation like other crops. However, often forest...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 08:03 |
An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners as little as US$0.65 per hectare for their forestland, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) can reveal.
In the new report Clear-Cut Exploitation, EIA and its Indonesian partner Telapak expose woefully low payments by PT Henrison Inti Persada (PT HIP) to marginalised Moi tribe clans for land and timber. Evidence includes a copy of PT HIPs ‘contract’ with a Moi...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 08:01 |
In a forest not far from the capital, local residents are stepping up to help protect the earth in an initiative that may give the next generation hope for the future. The people of Cipeuteuy village in Sukabumi, West Java, realized the weight on their shoulders was getting heavier and heavier after living side by side with a newly established national park. Not only had they lost a source of income – for the park prohibited them from obtaining anything from that protected land – but they...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 08:00 |
Agribusiness giant Bunge expects its avoided deforestation project on private land in Brazil to be issued around 800,000 voluntary carbon credits by the second half of the year, the firm’s Brazil country manager said.
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--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 07:57 |
The Indian Law Resource Center has called on the UN Permanent forum on Indigenous Issues to ensure that the World Bank implements the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
At the 11th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is taking place this week in New York, Leonardo Crippa, a Senior Attorney with the Indian Law Resource Center made a statement pointing out that, “There is a need of stronger safeguard measures to protect indigenous...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 07:01 |
Land Use Planning for Low Emission Development Strategy (LUWES) is a framework that helps local stakeholders to design a development planning that can reduce green house gas emission from land-based activity while still maintained economic growth. This offers a set of principles, steps and tools (including a Java-based software, ABACUS SP) to help multi-stakeholders to negotiate the land use plans by entertaining scenarios that can be developed together.
Please...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-18 06:40 |
International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2012 | Two critical determinants of REDD+ success moving forward are: (1) developing and implementing REDD+ safeguard information systems (SIS) and (2) fostering effective private sector engagement in the REDD+ value chain. To explore these issues, an expert meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 2–3, 2012, under the Building REDD+ Policy Capacity for Developing Country Negotiators and Land Managers project. The workshop was delivered...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 05:39 |
Two critical determinants of REDD+ success moving forward are: (1) developing and implementing REDD+ safeguard information systems (SIS) and (2) fostering effective private sector engagement in the REDD+ value chain.
To explore these issues, an expert meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 2–3, 2012, under the Building REDD+ Policy Capacity for Developing Country Negotiators and Land Managers project. The workshop was delivered by IISD and the ASB Partnership for...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 05:34 |
Two critical determinants of REDD+ success moving forward are: (1) developing and implementing REDD+ safeguard information systems (SIS) and (2) fostering effective private sector engagement in the REDD+ value chain.
To explore these issues, an expert meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 2–3, 2012, under the Building REDD+ Policy Capacity for Developing Country Negotiators and Land Managers project. The workshop was delivered by IISD and the ASB Partnership for...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 05:28 |
In developing countries, millions of people depend on land for their food and livelihoods. But a global ‘land rush’ — moves to acquire large tracts of land across the world — is increasing competition for this vital resource. A growing body of evidence points to the scale, geography, players and key characteristics of the phenomenon. Some of this is based on media reports and some on country level inventories. Much of the data cannot be compared due to variations in methodology, timescale...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-18 05:19 |
The 2007/2008 spike in the price of agricultural commodities was accompanied by a spike in media reports of huge transnational farmland acquisitions. Commentators were soon referring to “land grabbing”, or to a new “global land rush”. However, others have argued that the boom is really only a bubble which is driven by speculation and is thus not likely to materialize in real projects. While some have seen a major threat to the rights and livelihoods of the rural poor in the Global South,...
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