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[…]
Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) and the Tropical Forest Trust (TFT) announced that the major timber company has more than doubled the amount of certified rainforest it operates in the Congo Basin, creating the largest ever tract of contiguous certified tropical forest in the world, a total of 750,000 ha. To meet the standards for[…]
An increasing number of construction firms around the world are committing to using Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified timber in their building projects. Royal BAM Group in the Netherlands and Even Construtora e Incorporadora in Brazil are two of the latest examples. In Brazil, Even Construtora e Incorporadora is set to use more FSC for[…]
Peru President Alan Garcia has criticized those who question Peru’s active natural resource utilisation, and emphasized the need for Peru to continue its utilisation of such resources, the Tropical Forest Trust reported. President of Peru’s Exporters Association Lumber Committee, Herbert Frey, said exporters in the sector accepted the President’s challenge to better use natural resources,[…]
A group of nine non-governmental organisations, including Greenpeace, has launched a proposal for a national agreement to end Amazon deforestation at an event attended by the Brazilian Minister of Environment and State Governors in October. The proposal aims to achieve a broad commitment from sectors of the Brazilian Government and civil society for measures to[…]
With deforestation as the second leading source of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions, experts are focusing the discussion on the viability of compensating countries for protecting their forests, according to information from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The proposal ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation’ (RED) was not included in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)[…]