Thus investments in REDD, by providing support for implementing GIS for forestry, have a dual benefit.
For example, expanded credits for forestry-based offsets, including reforestation, afforestation and avoided deforestation, would give the rural poor a critical source of income to manage and sustain their landscapes.
ECONOMIST: On climate change, Bretton Woods, the Pope's speech | The
The Forest Stewardship Council provides certification for the forestry industry and its products.
This funding boost for the Forestry Commission Scotland will help towards achieving that.
BBC: West Highland Way among recipients of ?3m cash injection
It dates back to 1993, when the Forest Stewardship Council, an alliance of greens and loggers, drew up a list of rules for sustainable forestry.
ECONOMIST: Western consciences can do only so much to conserve forests
Neil Stoddart, a forest district manager for the Forestry Commission at Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, said although conifer production was an important part of rural economic development, it could be balanced with environmental gains.
Environment Agency Wales, Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Commission Wales will join forces early next year.
Phillip Shepherd, 61, from Treorchy in Rhondda, received an MBE for services to forestry and archaeology in Wales.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | MBE for disability group founder
Mr. Jari Koskinen, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, represenatives of UNDP, FAO, World Bank and UNDESA as well as representatives of the civil society.
The decision to bring together the Environment Agency Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Commission Wales (FCW) has received mixed reactions from the opposition parties.
On 29 November 2011 the Welsh Government announced that the Environment Agency Wales, Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Council Wales will merge into a single environmental body from April 2013.
On May 24th all but one of the 73 lower-house deputies of the catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), the PT's main coalition partner, voted for an amendment to a new Forestry Code to grant an amnesty for illegal logging before 2008.
Christopher Starr from Penrith, was appointed OBE for services to British Forestry and Forestry Education.
BBC: Julian Carradice appointed MBE in New Year Honours list
This is paving the way for a more responsible forestry, in our lease and in Karelia as a whole.
Now the authorities hope to set the standard for the enforcement of forestry law, thanks to some clever new technology.
Paddy Gorman, spokesman for the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union, said none of the miners at Agnew Gold Mine in resource-rich Western Australia state is a member of the mining union.
So, for example, when it comes to forestry, there's nothing wrong with us cutting down some trees for timber, as long as you make sure that it's done in a sequence and is spaced properly so that the forest itself is sustained.
Mondi's forestry division, for example, has only a quarter of the employees it had four years ago.
ECONOMIST: South African firms are struggling to cope as AIDS spreads
It will develop aims and indicators for ecotourism, agriculture and forestry.
The reaction was sharp in part because it came on the heels of the suspension of an unrelated company, Hong Kong-listed China Forestry Holdings, for accounting irregularities.
Dafydd Elis-Thomas, AM for Dwyfor Meirionnydd asked how the minister would ensure that activity would continue in the transition period of merging the Forestry Commission, Countryside Council for Wales and the Environment Agency into a new single environmental body.
That is accomplished either through a TIMO or via independent forestry consultants who work for individual landowners.
Even as the campaign ran on, the government announced a deal with the industry committing both to aim for almost 40, 000 new forestry-based jobs by 2001.
Yungas's organic coffee and agro-forestry have enormous potential for growth.
Director of strategy Darryl Dixon said the licensing authority had been trialing a "light touch" inspection regime for the past year in the forestry industry - a sector considered low risk.
Roughly 50% of the raw materials that the company uses for its products come from agriculture and forestry.
Forestry Commission inspectors will survey for infestations in the buffer zone and take steps to ensure they are tackled.
He is now a consultant with a group, mainly industry-financed, that calls for a balance between the needs of forestry and the environment.
He has also chaired the independent forestry panel, which called for England's woods and forests to be reassessed and revalued and led to the government's decision not to sell off publicly owned forests and woodlands.
The forestry industry, which accounts for around 8% of exports and is centred in the worst-hit regions, may be shut down for at least a month because of damage to factories and to transport links, says Charles Kimber of Arauco, a big forestry firm.
应用推荐