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May 2011

  • Issue date: 
    May 25, 2011

    Indirect effect hampers Brazil's 'soy moratorium' from protecting forest

    Researchers in the US have, for the first time, quantified the indirect effect that changing pasture land over to soy or biofuel production can have on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

  • Issue date: 
    May 26, 2011

    Global Forest Industry CEOs See Positive Future

    Montreal, Canada, May 26, 2011 – Forest products industry CEOs from around the world see an important opportunity ahead as a more competitive and significantly transformed industry emerges from the recent global economic downturn. This assessment came at the conclusion of International Council of Forest and Paper Associations’ (ICFPA) 5th Global CEO Roundtable, a meeting of industry leaders from around the world which took place today in Montreal, Canada.

  • Issue date: 
    May 2011

    Sri Lanka’s REDD+ Potential: Myth or Reality?

     

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    May, 2011

  • Issue date: 
    May 25, 2011

    Joint Fact Sheet: The U.S.-UK Partnership for Global Development

    Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama reaffirm our commitment to changing the lives of the 1.2 billion poor people in the world today. Recent success and new technologies provide hope and opportunities to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

  • Issue date: 
    25 May 2011

    Forests Growing in Quantity, Not Quality

    UGRA NATIONAL PARK, Kaluga Region — Viktor Grishenkov uses the weight of his spade to open a slit in the sandy ground, inserts a 30-centimeter oak seedling into the hole and packs the earth tight around it with his foot.

  • Issue date: 
    27 May 2011

    Carbon offset provider Carbonica in partnership with REDDMontt Forestry in Chile

    UK-based carbon trading and carbon offset company Carbonica will generate VCS REDD and reforestation carbon credits in Chile

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  • Issue date: 
    May 25, 2011

    The State of Forests in the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin and Southeast Asia

  • Issue date: 
    27 May 2011

    Germany to aid Indonesia fight deforestation

    JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- The government of Germany on Friday agreed to aid Indonesia with its Forest and Climate Change program (ForClime), local media reported.

  • Issue date: 
    May 25, 2011

    The investments to the timber industry complex of the Perm Territory will reach 25 bln rubles

  • Issue date: 
    30 May 2011

    The wood processing in the Leningrad Region rose by a factor of 1.8

  • Issue date: 
    May 30th, 2011

    Wet’suwet’en win harvesting injunction against Canfor in B.C.

    The British Columbia Supreme Court has granted an injunction which restrains Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (“Canfor”) from engaging in timber harvesting activities within a culturally vital portion of Ilk K’il Bin Territory known as Redtop.

  • Issue date: 
    25.05.2011

    Schlappe für Rousseff

  • Issue date: 
    May 23rd, 2011

    UK emissions targets ramped up to 50%

  • Issue date: 
    May 23rd, 2011

    Fierce competition over world’s wood supply

    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.



by Dr. Radut