An interesting story ran in the times last week about the United Kingdom, where forest cover could double as a result of the plans.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6995796.ece
I f you don’t want to read the whole article here’s a quick summary……The plan is for the conversion of land to forestry plantations for wood burning power stations using eucalyptus and [...]
In the United Kingdom, central government is estimated to purchase as much as twenty percent of all the country’s timber, (this figure rises to 40 per cent when local authorities and other government bodies are included), and a commitment to procurement policy has been released by its central government.
To summarise, the social criteria that will [...]
According to Olga James a writer for the Baltic Times forestry will be vital to the future of Latvia. She explained that the timber industry and related sectors have made up a crucial part of the country’s economic structure and will continue to do so for many years.
However she also pointed out that changing technologies [...]
Forestry investors in eucalyptus plantations could be excused for feeling a little light-headed, if they have spotted the news from Brazil.
http://www.cop15brasil.gov.br/en-US/?page=noticias/green-steel-for-the-brazilian-steel-industry
The text below is from the Brazilian federal government’s website on December 4th 2009.
“Green steel for the Brazilian steel industry”
“Considered as an environmental villain, the steel industry may become an ally of the Federal Government [...]
The forestry biomass sector came under scrutiny once more at the seventh annual natural resources forum in British Columbia, Canada. One of its key speakers, forestry analyst Don Roberts for CIBC (a North American Investment institution) stated that bio nenergy is likely to play a pivotal role in the future of the forestry investment industry.
Recent [...]
Putting my financial hat on today, I decided to trawl back over the past eighteen months and look back over the global financial crisis and see if I could learn any lessons and mitigate my risks in investing generally. Forestry is often quoted as being uncorrelated to financial markets and so it seems sensible to [...]
The exceptionally harsh winter conditions across northern Europe at the end of last year and the beginning of 2010, has had serious repercussions in the Scottish forestry and timber sector. The timber supply chain there has almost ground to halt as the big freeze engulfed the region for an unusually prolonged period. The Scotsman [...]
News relating to forestry and timber investments:
Lurio Green resources, a Norwegian company has plans to invest over 2 billion $US in Eucalyptus plantations in Mozambique, Africa. The government in Mozambique has just approved the eucalyptus project. The forestry species will be specifically grown and harvested for industrial purposes across the northern province of Nampula.
Luis Covane, [...]
Thirty two percent of all energy produced in Brazil is from biomass. Of this, firewood and charcoal account for 11.4% of the total. Brazil produced about ten million tons of charcoal, of which 84% was used in the steel industry for the production of iron, 8% for residential use and 8% for other activities. [...]
