Sustainable Forest Articles & Analysis
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This reduces reliance on virgin wood pulp, promoting sustainable forest management. Biodegradable Bliss: Unlike their foam counterparts, paper egg cartons decompose naturally, leaving minimal impact on landfills and the environment. Composting Champion: Many sustainable paper egg cartons are even compostable! This translates to nutrient-rich ...
The ‘Scaling up the implementation of the Lao PDR Emission Reductions Programme (Project 2)’ aims to address decades of forest loss. Building on and coordinating with complementary initiatives including the success of FP117 (GIZ Laos Project 1), Lao PDR leverages GCF funding to further remove investment, policy, and financing barriers to create a ...
FutMon project Delta‐T Profile Probes have been installed at four sites across the U.K. to provide soil moisture data as part of FutMon, an EU Life+ project. The aim of FutMon is to create a Europe‐ wide long term forest monitoring system. The FutMon partner organisation in the UK is Forest Research (Centre for Forestry and Climate Change). The data required for FutMon are being ...
It is interesting to note that family forest owners account for 92 percent of private forest owners, and hold 62 percent of the private forestland (35 percent of all forestland) in the U.S. ...
This is a huge knowledge gap considering that forests provide space for recreation and are vital to sustaining water supplies, regulating the climate, and providing staples like medicines, food, and shelter. ...
Today, a group of leaders in government, business, and civil society launched Global Forest Watch at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. “Partnerships like Global Forest Watch that bring together governments, businesses and civil society and technological innovation are the kinds of solutions we need to reduce forest loss, alleviate poverty ...
REDD+ recognizes five activities that developing countries can do to earn compensation from developed countries, including: * Reducing emissions from deforestation; * Reducing emissions from forest degradation; * Sustainable management of forests; * Conservation of forest carbon stocks; and * Enhancement of ...
Looking at it from an emic point of view, this paper attempts to analyse the extent to which the Baka indigenous people of the eastern region of Cameroon have managed to conserve their forest resources by means of following a sustainable way of life.Keywords: pygmies, indigenous peoples, sustainability, culture, forest resources, ...
Natural resource accounting aims to provide indicators for the sustainability of current economic activity. The objective of the paper is an integrated economic and natural resource by compiling forest resources and integrating into the national accounts in the state of Karnataka, India. ...
We review the economics perspective on sustainable resource use and sustainable development. Under standard conditions, dynamic efficiency leads to sustainability of renewable resources but not the other way around. For the economic-ecological system as a whole, dynamic efficiency and intergenerational equity similarly lead to ...
The Forest Atlas displays the major official forest land use categories--forest concessions, protected areas, community forests, and forest plots--on one platform, including where these uses overlap. ...
But despite forests’ critical role the country until recently lacked a comprehensive information system to actually monitor and sustainably manage these ecosystems. ...
To reduce illegal logging and support the legal actors in the forest sector, Brazil must strengthen its forest control systems and policies. ...
To tackle the high rate of deforestation in Indonesia's production forests, a new type of licence was introduced in 2004 known as an Ecosystem Restoration Concession (ERC) or IUPHHK–RE by the Indonesian Government. For the first time, production forests could be managed for the purpose of restoration instead of logging. ...
Fire is the biggest forest hazard, especially in Mediterranean climate countries, leading to desertification and collapse (Naveh, 2007). Wildfire is among the most dramatic threats to forests (Goldammer, 2004). In many countries, it is not easy to find companies that want to insure forests stands. ...
Demand for sustainably produced forest products will create an incentive to properly manage forests and preserve forested lands. ...
'Genuine Saving' is an indicator which reflects the practical steps towards sustainability. This paper for the first time estimates the Genuine Saving for forests in China. ...
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation have inspired this paper, which completes the existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three instruments of forest exploitation, the study ...
In these agreements, Parties stated that reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks, and sustainable management of forests in developing countries should be recognized as mitigation actions. ...
In terms of paper purchasing, the policy addresses most of the themes covered in WRI’s Sustainable Wood and Paper Procurement Guide. Disney commits to maximize the use of recycled fiber, maximize the use of paper made from wood sourced from sustainably managed forests (as certified by the Forest Stewardship Council or an ...