Asia-Pacific forestry information

2013

07.21

Save half of boreal forest from development, scientists urge

22 July 2013, CBC News - A group of international scientists is calling for 50 per cent of Canadas boreal forest to be protected from any type of development, and theyve outlined their plan in a report released today at the International Congress of Conservation Biology in Baltimore, Md. The International Boreal Conservation...

2013

06.27

AWC responds to President Obama’s climate change strategy

27 June 2013, Wbpionline news - The America Wood Council (AWC) has made the following statement regarding President Obama ’ s climate change strategy. While President Obama raised many climate issues in releasing his Climate Action Plan, one issue that deserves greater attention is for the US Environment Protection Agency...

2013

06.27

Japan and China import 83% of world’s traded hardwood chips in 2012

27 June 2013, Wbpionline news - From 2009 to 2012, global chip trade increased by 6.5 million tons to just over 31 million tons, valued at over US$5bn, slightly below the all-time high reached in 2011, reports Wood Resource Quarterly. Much of the increase in chip imports has been because of the expansion of MDF production...

2013

07.04

Forest related outcomes of the Bonn Climate Change Conference

4 July 2013, Forest Europe news - The Bonn Climate Change Conference took place in Germany from 3-14 June 2013. The thirty-eighth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 38) achieved what many saw as good progress on, inter alia, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation...

2013

06.29

Project to boost EU tropical timber sales

29 June 2013, Ttjonline news - A new initiative aims to boost sales of certified sustainable tropical timber in the EU by 30% in two years. The EU Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) has been set up by a Dutch government-backed public partnership organisation IDH (the Sustainable Trade Initiative) and is a response to...

2013

06.21

Singapore air pollution hits worst level on record, government blames

21 June 2013, Mongabay news - Singapore’s Pollutant Standards Index hit the highest level on record Friday as haze driven by fires burning across plantations, peatlands, and forest areas continued to rage across Sumatra. The air pollution gauge touched a record 400 at 11 am local time on Friday, according to the National...

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