Recent trends indicate that there have been significant growths in Canadian forestry from Chinese investors.
After several miserable years of mill closures and redundancies totalling up to 1,000in a single month, Canada is now looking forward to a brighter future for its forestry industry.
The major surge in the desire for Canadian timber from China has [...]
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 [...]
Timber has been a popular asset amongst investors for many years. Due to their long-term nature of asset class and the amount of positive attributes they offer.
One of the main benefits is the attractive high interest rate returns over a long period. If one observes timberland activity over the past twenty years, timber has performed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
According to the Brazilian government deforestation in the Amazon has declined by 47.5% during the past year. This data was supplied from a preliminary survey taken by a low resolution satellite. The figure is the highest decline in deforestation rates since records began in 1988, amounting to a 90% drop in deforestation since the peak [...]
I was researching alternative assets classes that not only could perform as well as the stock market but also provide good diversification opportunities as well as passive income possibility. One asset class which seems a little overlooked is timber. According to several sources, investing in timber has beaten the stock market by 4 percentage points [...]
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 [...]
Turning income into capital without taxation in this world is like trying to spin straw into gold, impossible unless you know Rumpelstiltskin.
Well as it turns out he and I are on quite friendly terms and it was he who introduced me to forestry investments.
Most governments are eager to support any activities that they regard as [...]
Timberland Investment World Summit in New York.
Focusing in particular on the American timber markets and timberland prices, Credit Suisse believes log prices have bottomed in 2009 and they should improve in 2010-2011. Credit Suisse go on to forecast a healthy outlook for forestry investment with further strengthening of timber prices 2013 to 2018.
The managing director [...]
The Global Forest Coalition said an examination of international trading companies has revealed a new and growing global industry in wood for energy.
In Europe, small-scale woodchip power plants make use of locally harvested timber and wood waste, but such sources will not be able to feed the industry’s huge need for wood in [...]
Financial website The Motley Fool has recommended forestry investment as a means of diversifying one’s investment portfolio.
