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Indonesia to Sign Legal Timber Agreement with EU
2013-09-24 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tempo: After the welcoming of new students at Universitas Hamka yesterday, Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said he will go to Brussels, Belgium to sign the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) agreement with European Union (EU) Chief next Monday, September 30. Zulkifli said the timbers from Indonesia now have documents explaining about the origin and the wood processing. By signing the agreement, he is hoping that global market will close the doors for illegal timbers distribution and legal timber...
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Appeal of Timber High Rises Widens
2013-09-23 22:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Chicago-based firm that has designed a long list of skyscrapers, including the new One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, has developed a structural system that uses so-called mass timber - columns and thick slabs that are laminated from smaller pieces of wood. In a report this year, the firm showed how the system could be used to build a 42-story residential tower that would have a lower carbon footprint than a conventional structure. "We're tall building engineers,"...
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Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Malaysias endangered rainforests
2013-09-11 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Japanese companies are failing to keep illegally logged timber from entering their supply chains, international human rights and environmental watchdog Global Witness said in a report released today. The report links several major Japanese firms to logging companies that are destroying tropical rainforests in Malaysian Borneo through illegal and destructive logging practices in Sarawak province. Japan is the largest importer of timber from Sarawak, where deforestation rates are among the highest...
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Timber not the only asset in Ore. forestland sale
2013-07-20 16:36:29| Real Estate - Topix.net
Below the 80-foot structure spreads a rugged, 32,475-acre tapestry of a pine-fir-larch forest that Rosenthal plans to auction July 25 in an unusual timberland sale.
Cause of haze? Up to 87% of recent deforestation in fire zone due to palm oil, timber
2013-06-27 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: New analysis of land cover in Riau Province reveals the outsized role industrial plantations play in driving deforestation and associated haze. The analysis, conducted by Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Sumatran environmental groups, finds that up to 56 percent of deforestation in Riau between 2007 and 2012 can be linked to timber plantations for pulp and paper production. The figure for oil palm plantations may be as high as 31 percent. Eyes on the Forest also found widespread overlap between...
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