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Researchers have repeatedly confirmed that, undisturbed, the world’s great natural forests are important reservoirs of atmospheric carbon. They have also confirmed that, even without taking carbon sequestration into account, the forests represent precious natural capital: they are worth more to humankind undisturbed than they could ever be as sawn ...
In addition, restrictions are placed on how and when buffer zone communities can access forest products, which means that communities struggle to support their families. ...
FIA Data Confirm Forest Growth in US South Outpaces Harvesting Rates By Kim Cesafsky, Manager of Sustainability You may have noticed a few changes to Enviva’s Forest Trend Map page and Track & Trace (T&T) infographic after the latest T&T web release. ...
The House passed a bill Thursday designed to improve the health of national forests by scaling back the environmental reviews that go into some timbering projects and discouraging lawsuits that delay projects. The goal is to speed up timber harvests and underbrush removal that the U.S. Forest Service deems necessary to improve ...
Accurate climate models depend on accurate assessment of the carbon cycle, and the forests play a critical role. Timber in the forests is essentially carbon in the bank. ...
“The observed changes affect forests as important as the Amazon, but also forests on all continents, possibly pushing some of them towards tipping ...
The forestry sector moves up the scale at Expobiomasa If the amount of exhibition floor space seems surprising for a specialised fair devoted exclusively to biomass, then this is mainly due to the 8,000 m2 of machinery and equipment for handling timber on display in ‘Expobiomasa Forestal’ included in the main fair. This was thanks to a specific call ...
The authors show that damage caused by forest disturbance has increased continuously over the last 40 years in Europe, reaching 56 million cubic meters of timber per year in the period 2002 – 2010. Scenario analyses for the coming decades also suggest a continuation of this trend: the study estimates that forest disturbances will increase ...
April marked a milestone for forest carbon projects when California Air Resources Board (ARB) issued the first forest carbon offsets to a project developed under the California Compliance Offset Protocol-U.S. Forest Projects. The Yurok Tribe Sustainable Forest Project improves forest management on approximately ...
“Importantly, it will support our efforts to mainstream sustainable forest management through forest certification”. In 2010, the CGF Board of Directors committed their 400 members, with a combined procurement power of over $3 trillion, to achieving zero net deforestation in their supply chains by 2020. ...
Europe has more than 117 million hectares of forest, but the sustainable utilisation – especially in privately owned forests – falls short of its potential. ...
In the tropics, peat swamp forests are often logged and converted to oil palm and pulp wood plantations. ...
That's a direct stab at LEED, which recognizes a single, stringent forest certification system - one that's opposed by timber industry giants such as Weyerhaeuser, because it does not certify some of U.S. timber. Green Globes accepts less stringent forest certification programs. Other bans target green building rating systems ...
The sold-out PEFC Stakeholder Dialogue on "Advancing Sustainable Trade in Asia", part of the PEFC Forest Certification Week, which started today in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, will provide take stock and identify opportunities to catalyze uptake of sustainable practices within the region. Participants can look forward to solutions-oriented discussions towards mainstreaming ...
Hastings, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said wildfires burned 9.3 million acres in the U.S. last year, while the Forest Service only harvested timber from about 200,000 acres. Hastings' bill includes an amendment by Rep. ...
Unless they are sustainably managed, commercial timber forests generally have low amounts of deadwood on the forest floor, as timber is harvested before it falls. However, this can affect local ecosystem services provided by forest streams. Naturally fallen logs can help purify stream water and prevent erosion by ...
The significance of responsible timber sourcing practices to promote sustainable forest management and combat climate change will be the focus of the keynote speech by Ben Gunneberg, PEFC International Secretary General at the forthcoming World Engineers Summit (WES) in Singapore next week. ...
The impact of current and adaptive management regimes on timber production and forest biodiversity were modelled for the Black Forest, Germany, between 2001 and 2200. The model projections suggest that both timber production and forest diversity would be severely reduced under climate change if adaptive ...
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Plum Creek, of Seattle, is one of the largest and most geographically diverse private forest and timber managers in the United States. Lignol Energy Corporation, of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is developing biorefining technologies for cellulosic biofuels, renewable chemicals and biobased products. ...