18 June 2009
“We have all the elements in our industry, the willingness and the potential to contribute, to be part of the solution to climate change.” Teresa Presas, Managing Director of CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries), will be a key-note speaker on Opportunities for Development at the XIII World Forestry Congress in Argentina. [ more...]
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8 June 2009
Over the last few years, two key environmental issues, closely related, have been on the top of the environmental agenda: climate change and deforestation. Forest is a subject for these two concerns. Deforestation, estimated at above 13 millions hectares a year, or an area roughly equivalent to the size of Greece, has immediate consequence in terms detraction of livelihoods for people, increased carbon emissions, and loss of biological diversity to mention few. Most of the forest cover losses are taking place in developing countries, in particular in South America, Africa and South-East Asia. One of the root causes behind deforestation is the weak governance structure for forest conservation and sustainable management of forest resources. This applies particularly to public-owned forests that represent over 80 percent of the global forest cover. One of the recent mechanisms to battle deforestation through attaching economic value to the carbon stored in the forest was launched in Montreal in 2006. The “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation” (REDD) initiative is already part of the international negotiations on climate change. However, understanding real values of losses and gains of forests still needs improvement. [ more...]
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