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Source: The Melbourne Anglican - The Archbishop of Canterbury and Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu were among the leading Anglican voices who appealed for prompt, effective action before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban late last year.

One year ago, Wetlands International released a report that revealed that the rate of deforestation in Malaysia’s province of Sarawak is about 2% a year. Most is being converted to oil palm plantations. “Total deforestation in Sarawak is 3.5 times as much as that for entire Asia, while deforestation of peat swamp forest is 11.7 [...]

One year ago, Wetlands International released a report that revealed that the rate of deforestation in Malaysia's province of Sarawak is about 2% a year. Most is being converted to oil palm plantations. "Total deforestation in Sarawak is 3.5 times as much as that for entire Asia, while deforestation of peat swamp forest is ... [...]

Source: Reuters - A group of 26 countries vehemently opposed to the EU's aviation emissions trading scheme will meet in Moscow on February 21 to discuss a plan of action, EU and Indian sources told Reuters on Monday.

Source: Reuters - German utility E.ON and Hydrocop Concessions, a group of eight energy distributors in France, announced a partnership on Monday to bid for lucrative hydropower contracts if the French government opens the business up to competition.

Source: The Citizen - Tanzania is among countries that would benefit from funds donated by Norway to finance projects that aim at reducing the effects of climate change.Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD).

Source: Public Agenda - REDD+ aims to reward or compensate tropical developing countries for keeping their forests intact or for reducing the scale of deforestation. It's predicted that financial flows to these countries from REDD+ could reach up to US$30 billion a year.

Source: AP - You wouldn’t know it from the Republicans, but these are boom times for American energy. And you wouldn’t know it from President Barack Obama, but he has very little to do with that.

Source: ABC Australia - If history is anything to go by, periods of droughts and flooding rains could become more common in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand, according to a new study.

Source: Economic Times - Britain's newly-appointed Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey on Monday confirmed the country's commitment to its green energy targets and its focus on growing the offshore wind power generation capacities.

Resolute Forest Products (formerly known as AbitibiBowater) has purchased the idled co-generation plant at Dolbeau, Quebec from Boralex for $5 million. AbitibiBowater idled its Dolbeau mill in June 2009, putting 240 workers out of work. Boralex operated the co-generation plant at the mill, producing steam generated power from wood waste. Boralex sold that power to [...]

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Fibrek Inc. has received the results of a formal evaluation of the company’s common shares. Based upon and subject to the analyses and assumptions set out in its valuation, Canaccord Genuity is of the opinion that, as at February 3, 2012, the fair market value of a common share of Fibrek was in the range [...]

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Inter Press Service: "In the Andes, and all over the world, mining on mountains should be banned. Distinguished scientists and papers in the most prestigious journals are saying this," a regional planning expert in Colombia told IPS. The expert in question is forestry engineer Fernando Mauricio Castro, in charge of planning for CORTOLIMA, the top environmental agency overseeing natural resources and their sustainable use in the central Andean province of Tolima, with its capital, Ibagué, located 202 km southwest of...

AlertNet: Climate change impacts -- from worsening droughts to new pots of climate-related cash for fragile states -- may turn out to be a catalyst for worsening conflict. If so, keeping an eye on local politics and the quality of governance could be as important in heading off climate crises as breeding drought-resistant crops or protecting forests, climate security experts said at a recent meeting in London. Growing climate change-related tensions "are not simply about climate change but about... the...

Mongabay: In 2009 researchers discovered 19,232 species new to science, most of these were plants and insects, but 148 were amphibians. Even as amphibians face unprecedented challenges-habitat loss, pollution, overharvesting, climate change, and a lethal disease called chytridiomycosis that has pushed a number of species to extinction-new amphibians are still being uncovered at surprising rates. One of the major hotspots for finding new amphibians is the dwindling tropical forests of Southeast Asia. "Southeast...

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Feb 6 2012  Tetra Pak has inaugurated its new packaging material factory in Finland. The factory, located in Imatra, with a planned capacity of 500 million packages per year, will expand Tetra Pak’s gable top capacity for Northern Europe.

Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica's high-altitude region Cerro de la Muerte. The discovery was made thanks to molecular data analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The collected records have also increased the overall knowledge of plant lice (one of the most dangerous agricultural pests worldwide) from the region with more that 20 percent.