For years, Indonesia has made money by chopping down its forests. Now it wants to earn billions by preserving what is left, according to a report from Planet Arc in the lead up to this week’s UN climate change talks in Bali. The huge archipelago, with about 10% of the world’s tropical rainforests, is pinning[…]
Vocational training should fortify the ability of workers to handle a wide range of different jobs, while university education should be honed to ensure that training and teaching coincide more closely with the forest industry’s future needs, according to the Finnish Forest Industries Federation. “The forest industry’s vocational and university teaching should come more closely[…]
The National Association of Forest Industries in Australia has welcomed incoming Prime Mininster Kevin Rudd’s move to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Rudd reiterated his intentions at the Bali Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which started this week. NAFI CEO Catherine Murphy said forestry was the only carbon positive industry[…]
The first chips were fed into the digester in the Fray Bentos Botnia pulp mill in Uruguay earlier this month. The start up process is proceeding fluidly, according to the scheduled plan. The start up process began when the recovery boiler was turned on with fuel oil in order to generate the necessary high pressured[…]