September 2011

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September 15th, 2011

Metso shuffles business units, foresees growth in biopower

Metso Corp.’s Board of Directors has decided to modify the company’s business structure in order to more effectively reach the company’s future business targets.

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September 12, 2011

Japan still matters to the B.C. economy

Canadians are coming to recognize that the balance of power in the international economy is shifting inexorably toward Asia. Already home to three-fifths of humanity, the next two decades will see Asia grow to account for half or more of global output.

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September 13, 2011

Rimba Raya debacle casts pall over Indonesian REDD

The world has eagerly watched as Indonesia pilots public and private investments to curb the country’s massive forest losses while still meeting economic development goals. But conflicting interests between the nation’s leadership turned ugly last month when a leading forest conservation project

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12 Sep 2011

A Huge Oil Palm Plantation Puts African Rainforest at Risk

Industrial palm oil production is coming to Africa, its ancestral home. The world’s most productive oil seed has been a boon to Asian economies, but the looming arrival of large-scale plantations in Africa is raising fears that some of the same issues plaguing Malaysia, Indonesia, and other leading producers — deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, conflicts with local people, and poor working conditions — could befall one of the world’s most destitute regions.

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Sep 5, 2011

Pöyry Launches Green Mill Index(TM) for The Pulp And Paper Industry

Finland, Sep 5, 2011 - Pöyry has released an index for analyzing the environmental sustainability of pulp and paper mills.

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Sep 6, 2011

Metsä-Botnia Participates in Plans to Construct a Biorefinery in Joutseno

Finland, Sep 6, 2011 - Metsä-Botnia, part of Metsäliitto Group, is participating in a feasibility study with energy companies Gasum and Helsingin Energia into constructing a biorefinery for biogas production in Joutseno, southeastern Finland. If realised, the biorefinery would produce biogas from renewable wood raw material for transmission to usage sites such as Helsinki Energy’s Vuosaari power plant via the Finnish natural gas network.

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September 7th

So what happens now to the plan to burn wood for power in Port Hawkesbury?

Remember the plan to burn wood in Port Hawkesbury to create power for Nova Scotia Power?

You may have been thinking that plan was dead now that the NewPage mill is being idled, but you may be wrong.

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September 5, 2011

Estimating Reference Emission Level and Project Emission Level for REDD Projects in Tropical Forests

The REDD scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a carbon-based compensation for projects that resulted in reducing carbon emissions or enhancing carbon sinks or both in tropical forests.

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September 6, 2011

The REDD Market Should Not End Up a Subprime House of Cards: Introducing a New REDD Architecture for Environmental Integrity

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Sep 8th, 2011

Breaking Walls, Building Bridges: Conflict Management in the Tropical Timber Industry

Clashing interests and values over the use of forestland, the rap

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September 2011

Metso shuffles business units, foresees growth in biopower

Japan still matters to the B.C. economy

Rimba Raya debacle casts pall over Indonesian REDD

A Huge Oil Palm Plantation Puts African Rainforest at Risk

Pöyry Launches Green Mill Index(TM) for The Pulp And Paper Industry

Metsä-Botnia Participates in Plans to Construct a Biorefinery in Joutseno

So what happens now to the plan to burn wood for power in Port Hawkesbury?

Estimating Reference Emission Level and Project Emission Level for REDD Projects in Tropical Forests

The REDD Market Should Not End Up a Subprime House of Cards: Introducing a New REDD Architecture for Environmental Integrity

Breaking Walls, Building Bridges: Conflict Management in the Tropical Timber Industry

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September 2011

Metso shuffles business units, foresees growth in biopower

Japan still matters to the B.C. economy

Rimba Raya debacle casts pall over Indonesian REDD

A Huge Oil Palm Plantation Puts African Rainforest at Risk

Pöyry Launches Green Mill Index(TM) for The Pulp And Paper Industry

Metsä-Botnia Participates in Plans to Construct a Biorefinery in Joutseno

So what happens now to the plan to burn wood for power in Port Hawkesbury?

Estimating Reference Emission Level and Project Emission Level for REDD Projects in Tropical Forests

The REDD Market Should Not End Up a Subprime House of Cards: Introducing a New REDD Architecture for Environmental Integrity

Breaking Walls, Building Bridges: Conflict Management in the Tropical Timber Industry

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