At “Forestry Invest” this year, it has been a pleasure to witness a genuinely friendly forestry investment community developing. Despite some of the fundamental differences people have in their views, polite debate has always prevailed here and in the majority of cases, opinions have been emailed in on a very civilsed basis, so thank you.
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Over two hundred companies from the forestry investment sector have joined forces to lobby the climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark this month.
Not many industries are as competitive as the eucalyptus pulp and paper business in South America. Due to the combination of breeding and climate conditions, a eucalyptus tree reaches the optimum harvest point in [...]
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 forestry investment news in Australasia as promised, Gunns has just completed the acquisition of ITC Timber for A$88.5 million. This forestry acquisition follows the statement by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that it did not intend to oppose the acquisition.
Speaking on behalf of Gunns, Wayne Chapman stated “The acquisition represents a logical [...]
We have really seen a big pick up in numbers checking us out at “forestry invest” judging by the quantity of emails we’ve been receiving of late. Generally the feedback has been quite positive, but thanks for any feedback, good or bad. A wide range of investors in forestry have sent in private comments, so we are definitely gathering some momentum. As you’ll be [...]
For those not particularly familar with “The Forest Investment Program” (FIP), this is a programme within the World Bank’s Strategic Climate Fund (a Trust Fund which is part of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds).
They have recently updated their website (which forms part of the climatefundsupdate.org website) in preparation for the Copenhagen COP [...]
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 [...]
An American based investment company, Cogent Partners intends to make a sizable forestry investment in a eucalyptus project in Ontario, Canada comprising 11 thousand hectares of plantation. Cogent Partners invest in several countries in the area of reforestation.
The company responsible for developing the project and managing the forestry investment, Timber Value, has its headquarters in [...]
France has proposed that one fifth of the money raised for developing countries to deal with climate change is ring-fenced for the fight against deforestation and investments in forestry projects, for the next three year, in order to protectof natural forestry and mitigate climate change.
French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, spoke about the proposal at [...]
The rainy season in Brazil is from December to July and is universally recognised by the forestry operators in situ as the optimum time for planting out the seedlings destined for the forestry plantations. Beyond this period, the weather becomes very dry and extremely hot, with temperatures ranging from 35 degrees to as much as 45 [...]
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 [...]
According to the Brazilian Association of Planted Forests, the planting of teak forests is one of the most rapidly advancing in Brazil.
In 2008 the cultivated area of teak increased 10% to almost 60000 hectares. In 2005 that number was 40,000 hectares. Reforestation projects have already attracted institutional forestry investors like pension funds and now [...]
