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News New York – 17 December 2007 – Two days after the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali reaffirmed the importance of combating deforestation to fight global warming, and at a time of growing recognition of the role of forests in poverty eradication and protecting biodiversity, the General Assembly today adopted a landmark agreement on international forest policy and cooperation.
News By Charles Clover, Environment Editor, in Bali Measures to save the rainforests will be included in a post-Kyoto climate change treaty, a meeting of 180 countries has agreed. This has achieved what 20 years of campaigning by environmental groups in developed countries has failed to do since the idea of a world forestry convention was first proposed in the 1980s.
RIGA - Latvian authorities have given residents something to cheer about when they invited them to cut their own Christmas trees for free – only to be chased away by forest rangers.
Unasylva No. 228 Vol. 58, 2007/3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2007 http://www.fao.org/forestry/en/
The United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat Department of Economic Social Affairs is pleased to invite you to the Special Event of the UN General Assembly to commemorate the adoption of the Non-Legally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forests on Monday, 17 December 2007 from 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm, at the UN General Assembly Hall
News Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has committed his country to spending more than $500 million a year to preserve the world's endangered rainforests. The Norwegian government chief, Jens Stoltenberg, says reducing deforestation in developing countries can quickly and inexpensively reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide - the main component of the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.
The French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has the pleasure to announce: A side-event to be held on 12 December 2007 Time 15:30 – 17:30 In pavilion of the European Union (Brussels Room) Assessment of forest cover changes in French Guiana using satellite imagery: Lessons for a post 2012 REDD regime.
News Budapest - The "Forests for Public Welfare" Section of the Hungarian Association of Forestry celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Man in the Forest, Man and Forest, Society and Forest – these terms show the changing attitude of the people towards the forest in the course of centuries.
The forest has always been an issue close to the heart of all Swedes, both culturally and financially. Nowadays an increasing number of actors in the forestry sector have a positive attitude to some kind of co-ordinated EU forest policy.
Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has put the spotlight on Russia's timber industry. At a meeting with key players and ministers in the Vologda Region, he's called for a rethink on how the country manages one of its most valuable resources.
By Michael Casey At U.N. meeting, it rejected limits for developing states.
News Raja Gaj KATHMANDU – What is thought to be the world’s largest Asian elephant has been missing from a Nepali wildlife reserve for a year and may well be dead, a reserve official said yesterday. Raja Gaj, or king elephant, was estimated to be 11 feet 3 inches tall at the shoulder, some two feet taller than the average Asian elephant. The bull was one of the main tourist attractions at Bardia National Park in southwest Nepal.
CIGAR Room, Ayodya Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali Sustainable forest management and climate change mitigation: building on past experience There is extensive experience worldwide in sustainable forest management – putting in place the policy, institutional, technical and financial frameworks needed to sustain and enhance social, economic and environmental services from forests.
News WASHINGTON, - A recent Forest Service determination finds climate change could affect the distribution and diversity of plants and animals in the United States. In an update of the 2000 Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment (US Forest Service 2001) conducted by the Forest Service, 15 key findings have emerged since the publication of the original assessment. on the status and trends of natural resources of U.S. forests and rangelands.
By Simeon Bennett (Bloomberg) – Australia said it opened a climate-change research center two days after the nation's newly elected government ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Prices for Swedish forest land continue to rise, although somewhat slower than before. In the first half of 2007 prices increased in the whole country by an average of 12 % in comparison with the whole year 2006.
News Florian Möllers, (Germany) Wild boars have increased tenfold in Europe since the 1950s because of changes in agriculture, the lack of predators and a fall in hunting. For the past 40 years, they have been living in the suburbs of Berlin.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — The Japanese government is planning to propose at an upcoming international conference a system to monitor rain forest destruction on a major scale by employing Japan's satellite technology as part of efforts to fight global warming, government sources said Sunday.
