January 27, 2012
- Knox Parks is one of 17 nonprofit organizations and municipalities that will be reimbursed a total of $81425 from the America the Beautiful (ATB) Urban Forestry Grant Program. According to a press release, the program is made possible by funding from ...
... “But during the initial studies, we began to realize that there was a real opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint.” The cogeneration facility features a gasification combustion system provided by Chiptec Wood Energy Systems, cyclonic dust ...
...- In 2008, scientist Bryan Black took core samples the diameter of a pencil from a forest near the north Oregon coast. Most of the trees were hemlocks and Douglas fir that had been undisturbed for about 90 years. The hemlocks were growing normally.
... The World Bank’s carbon finance initiatives will likely be needed for at least five years, as the United Nations struggles to create a self-sufficient, international carbon market, the manager of the bank’s carbon finance unit told Reuters.
Negotiators at December’s U.N. climate talks in South Africa agreed to extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol – the only global pact enforcing carbon cuts on developed nations – for at least five years beyond its...
Despite the refusal of conservatives in the United States Congress to believe in the harmful effects of rising greenhouse gases, the rest of the world seems to be trying to do something about it, particularly China, which has surpassed the US as the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide gases.
The latest development came earlier this week when the Asian Development Bank announced it would provide a US$750,000 equivalent grant to help China establish a pilot...
- Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, who just finished his official visit to Spain, traveled on Friday to the city of Davos (Switzerland) to take part in the World Economic Forum's annual meeting which will count with the participation of the leaders of the worlds top economies.
- Peru is a country that devoted itself to the Rule of Law, with a responsible management of its economic policy, uses its own model and respects what is going on in other countries, said on Friday Peruvian President Ollanta Humala.
- REDD Forest and Land Conservation projects generate carbon revenue and in future potentially further income from other ecosystem service markets (eg water, ...
... - Indigenous People in East Kalimantan are defending their forests against two oil palm plantations companies. Can REDD help them?
... This working paper begins with an overview of the climate change impacts on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), providing a brief analysis of regional climate scenarios and their expected consequences.
SIDS in the rainforest coalition (CfRN) are demanding clarity on the rules for land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) accounting, and the role of REDD in complementing developed country domestic mitigation efforts, while supporting developing country efforts in...