Millions of trees are ready to go into “carbon forestry” as soon as Australia’s emissions trading legislation is completed. In July, Carbon Conscious, a part of the Australian Agricultural Contracts, signed a carbon sink forest deal with Origin Energy potentially worth up to $169 million. .Carbon Conscious also has recently completed a deal with BP [...]
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 [...]
The significance of the forestry and timber industry to the worlds economy was outlined at the World Forestry Congress by Jose Urtubev, the representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Mr Urtubey quantified the international trade in forestry investment specifically referring to wood panels, pulp and paper for 2006, was in [...]
Some forestry news from Brazilian timber investors. Brazilian pulp and paper maker Suzano is raising the price for Eucalyptus pulp from the beginning of November 2009.
A spokesperson for Suzano stated in the company’s Executive Summary, that global market pulp shipments from producers remained stable in the third quarter of 2009 and were 1.7% and [...]
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