The Russian Federal Government is trying to assist development of its forest industry by adding export taxes on logs, thereby limiting competition by foreign companies for the Russian timber, as reported by Wood Resource Quarterly. These taxes are currently 25% of the log value (€15/m3) for softwood logs and are scheduled to increase to a[…]
The international community should enable rainforest countries to halve deforestation by 2020 and make the global forest sector ‘carbon neutral’ by 2030. This is the recommendation of an independent report to the British Prime Minister published today. The Eliasch Review, Climate Change: Financing Global Forests, is an independent report commissioned by the Prime Minister and[…]
Payments from polluters in rich countries to tropical communities in exchange for slowing deforestation may soon play a bigger role in combating climate change if problems like measuring preservation efforts can be overcome. It’s a bit of a minefield,” Michael Brune, the executive director of nonprofit group the Rainforest Action Network, told the Reuters Global[…]
Wood chip costs in Western US, which have been some of the highest in North America, declined 13% in the 3Q, but are currently still 25% higher than a year ago. Another region in the US that has experienced substantial fibre cost changes this year is the Northeast, where hardwood log prices have increased for[…]
The Vale Florestar project, one of mining company Vale’s main environmental projects in the north of Brazil, will benefit 300 Mha in the southeast of Pará. It will enable CO2 sequestration in record volumes. Altogether, more than 11 million seedlings have already been planted and 40,000 ha have been recovered; 15,000 to plant eucalyptus and[…]
International efforts to combat climate change received a boost in mid September with consensus amongst a diverse group of global forest leaders on a new set of principles dealing with sustainable forestry. A two-day meeting in Washington, organized by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) in conjunction with the World Bank, covered a wide range of issues.[…]
Tembec has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for its forestry practices over a 711,020-ha public forest in Senneterre, in Abitibi-East, Quebec. “Achieving FSC certification is the culmination of months of hard work and represents a well-deserved recognition of the efforts of our Senneterre team,” said Dennis Rounsville, Executive Vice President and President of Tembec’s[…]
The latest Research Note from the Forestry Commission provides an update on red band needle blight (RBNB), a serious disease that is increasingly affecting conifer trees in Britain’s forests. Written by Dr Anna Brown and Dr Joan Webber, scientists from the Tree Health Division of Forest Research, it presents the latest information to help foresters[…]
The Finnish forest industry managed to purchase a total of 5.3 million m3 of wood from privately owned domestic forests in August. The industry’s wood supply situation remains dire even though the August purchase amount increased almost threefold from July. The aggregate purchase volume for January-August, 17.4 million m3, is still substantially less than normal.[…]
ConFor has set out its case to UK MEPs opposing the moves by the European Parliament to amend radically the plant protection directive. The EC propose to change the approvals systems for pesticides in Europe from one based on risk assessment to one based on hazard criteria. The effect of these proposed changes will be[…]