vor 2 months 2 Wochen
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?
Coillte's core purpose is to enrich lives locally, nationally and globally through the innovative and sustainable management of natural resources
Coillte is a commercial...
vor 5 months 3 Wochen
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. A Synthesis Report (PDF) financed by those two governments was released at Doha.
The main conclusions of that report are as follows:
Proximate or direct drivers of deforestation and forest degradation are human activities and actions that directly impact forest cover and result in loss of...
vor 6 months 1 Tag
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?
In effect, you're paying someone else to exercise carbon emission restraint. It may...
vor 6 months 1 Woche
Sustain2Green:
REDD Text Limps Out Of Doha – Healthy, Homeless, And Broke
REDD Text Limps Out Of Doha – Healthy, Homeless, And Broke
Author: Steve Zwick
UPDATE: As of 22:00 local time, high-level talks are continuing but no changes are expected to the REDD text. We will provide a more comprehensive wrap Sunday night or Monday morning. Please check back then.
7 December 2012 | Doha | Qatar | High-level climate talks continue here and may run until Monday, but negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) appear to have wrapped up for the...
vor 7 months 3 Wochen
"A guide to raise funds to save forests" - a brand new publication (October 2012) by "The Global Canopy Program"
"As a non-partisan analysis, the Little Forest Finance Book does not favour one proposal over another. We do hope, however, that our work will aid understanding and encourage collaborative dialogue on this vitally important area of research."
On page 98 we can read the following interesting sentences:
"The extraction of wood comprises 4% of global GDP (Butler, 2012) and causes around two-thirds of tropical deforestation (Geist & Lambin, 2001). Wood is extracted for timber...
vor 8 months 1 Woche
Ilona Jankovits - 320217- Msc Global Business and Stakeholder Management - The Different Colours of REDD
Money does not grow on trees. In the literal sense this is true, but that does mean that despite the lack of currency as foliage, trees do not have any value. However, in our current system we seem to have issues with internalizing this value. We create a trade-off between economic profits and maintaining our ecosystems. The costs and benefits of the services our ecosystems provide globally are not internalized in our economic system and therefore the main stakeholder spheres of market...
vor 9 months 3 Wochen
"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:
"Developed nations have pledged more than $7.3 billion to help developing countries get up to speed on...
vor 10 months 3 Wochen
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:
Experimental studies have generally shown that plants do not show a large response to CO2 fertilization. “However, most of these studies were conducted in northern ecosystems or on commercially important species” explains...
vor 11 months 2 Wochen
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.
“If you look at this document as providing some sort of guidepost for making decisions or taking actions in the future, the positions that are taken do not actually provide any specificity,” said Peter Cronkleton, Senior Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research’s Peru...
vor 1 Jahr 4 Wochen
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.
60% of the biomass fired in the boiler will be for the nuts. This calculates to...
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