Issue No.2 June 1998

Contents

• Information
• EDITORIAL
• SPECIAL FEATURES
  • Combined heat and power generation from bagasse and eucalyptus by sugar mills in Nicaragua
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • "Forests and Energy" Forum
  • World Forestry Congress
  • EC-FAO joint programme (1998-2000)
  • Unified Wood Energy Terminology, Definitions and Conversion Factors (UWET)
• NEWS AND NOTES
  • Development of a rice husk furnace
  • Renewable energy
  • Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)
  • International Energy Agency
  • Super trees
  • By-products put to good use
  • The microturbine – New hope for biomass-to-electricity?
  • ENVOC (Environmental Vocabulary) – Multilingual thesaurus of environmental terms
  • Global bioenergy potential calculated by a model considering overall biomass flow and land use competition
  • A wood fuel lobby in Europe?
  • Regional wood energy development programme in Asia
  • Biomass energy newsletter
  • Green criteria
  • Recognizing the social value of women’s labour
  • "Women Feed the World" 1998 World Food Day/Telefood THEME
  • And have you heard about ...
• FOCUS ON ... MEXICO
  • TCP/MEX/4553 (dendroenergía para el desarrollo rural)
  • Resúmenes de los resultados obtenidos en los principales documentos técnicos
• COUNTRY COMPASS
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Burkina Faso
  • China
  • Costa Rica
  • Malaysia
  • Mali
  • The Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Sénégal
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • United States
• EVENTS OF INTEREST
• PUBLICATIONS
• WEB SITES
• POINTS OF VIEW
• READERS’ CORNER