The UK Government has decided to drop plans to sell-off 40,000 hectares (15%) of Forestry Commission land to allow a review of woodland protection.
The secretary of state Caroline Spelman said it wanted to re-examine the criteria for the sell-off but their other plans to have non-governmental bodies to take on sections of the 258,000 hectare [...]
Brazil has more than 100 years of Eucalyptus biomass fuel experience, but the Dow Chemical Company will be the first Brazilian company in the chemical and petrochemical industry to utilise it.
The Dow Chemical Company has signed an 18-year supply agreement with Energias Renováveis do Brasil (ERB), where they will invest, install and operate a 13-megawatt [...]
The UK governement has unveiled its long-awaited plans for the Forestry Commission, proposing to lease woodland to private sector operators and hand over control of England´s heritage forests to charitable trusts.
The coalition is already committed to taking 15 percent of the public forest estate out of state control, generating up to £100 million [...]
After last week’s climate change meetings in Cancún, Mexico produced two important developments on forestry, which is a key issue for Indonesia.
Independent research discovered how deforestation is not a major generator of greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, industrialised countries and the World Wide Federation alongside Greenpeace failed to win an agreement for their proposals that the [...]
In the past, agriculture was used exclusively to produce food, but now we are turning to crops as a source for energy use. Nowadays everyone is familiar with the argument s relating to the environment and how the energy we use directly affects are surroundings. People are conscious of the effects of greenhouse gas emissions [...]
Brazil is to auction large sections of the Amazon forest to private timber companies and co-operatives in an effort to reduce the demand for illegal logging.
Finally, the government is reviewing its concessions for private companies to log its national forest, after years of legal battles and political opposition.
“The future of the Amazon …combating deforestation and [...]
ArcelorMittal Bio-energy is responsible for the production and marketing of the renewable commodities such as charcoal, wood, seeds and seedlings from the formation of Eucalyptus forests. From 2011-2016 the firm plans to invest $390 million with the aim to expand the production of charcoal from 2.5 million cubic metres up to 5.2 million m³ by [...]
Last week the first forestry investment was issued credits and in return, voluntary carbon market players could increase demand for carbon credits from the forestry sector.
Forestry credits have been eagerly anticipated within the market sector for a long period of time, so this will be a welcomed piece of news
The voluntary carbon market has [...]
Scientists have reported that on the ground studies combined with airborne laser surveys have been used to verify a map of the Peruvian Amazon that accurately shows how much carbon is stored and released.
The research was centered in Peru and should now help kick start schemes that will pay forest rich countries to preserve [...]
Experts have warned against a one size fits all approach when it comes to implementing a new financial mechanism aimed at mitigating climate change from the destruction of tropical forests. They are demanding a more balanced, flexible solution to surround this new mechanism instead. Their main criticism is that the benefiters of this scheme are [...]
There has been a lot of praise recently for tree planting projects and while that is good news, after all the more trees planted the better, right? Well not quite because how does the uninformed general populace know that these schemes really deliver the level of cuts they are praised for?
The answer (at least in [...]
If the climate change summit in Copenhagen was characterized by over optimism followed by bitter disappointment the Cancun summit looks set to be characterized by a cart load of over pessimism. In the face of this apathy you’ve got to admire the attempts by Mexico to ‘rescue’ the climate change negotiations ahead of this year’s [...]
Like a lot of my peers I am very eco-minded and conscientious about the environment. Also unlike my peers I know that money can grow on trees if you know where to invest.
At the moment there are several options for ‘green investments’, whose purposes are to make profits from supporting green projects while also supporting [...]
In the past this blog has looked at the benefits to forestry investing but has been negligent in talking about the risks associated with forestry. I aim to correct that, but first it is worth noting why forestry investments have become so popular.
In recent years the number of investors acquiring timberland solely for investment purposes [...]
Timber is one of the most stable investments in the world. It is a precious commodity and is able to yield high returns, even in a down economy. Timber products are at an advantage, they will always be in demand, from tissue paper to wood chips for fuel, as more and more countries develop their [...]
Forestry investment projects worldwide could be the benficiary of a new plan unveiled by George Soros, the billionaire financier.
Mr Soros has submitted a proposal this week to give poorer nations up to $100bn, using the International Monetary Fund’s reserves to deal with the threat of climate control . Speaking at the Climate Control summit in [...]
Staying with the environmental side of forestry news, as part of “National Tree Week” in Great Britain, its main television broadcaster the BBC has initiated an investment ina forestry project to plant a million trees across the country, in a scheme entitled ‘Tree O’Clock’. The World Record attempt took place on Saturday 5th December 2009.
According to [...]
Wood Energy features in the news from India and the United States. An Indian power generation company has recently announced that negotiations are ongoing with “Green Energy Resources” with respect to a supply of more than 7 million tons of wood chips, valued at over $576 million over a 12-month period. Green Energy Resources sources [...]
News just released that Amazon deforestation rates have declined by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began 21 years ago.
Slightly more than 7,000 sq km was deforested between July 2008 and August 2009.
The news is clearly going to be welcomed ahead of the Copenhagen summit on climate [...]
The Walt Disney Company plans to invest US$7 million in forest conservation projects in the U.S.A, the Amazon and the Congo Basin in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Disney’s forestry investment policy is being made in partnership with three conservation groups: Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and The Conservation [...]
