Global hardwood pulp producers face higher wood fiber costs and lower pulp prices, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Profit margins are being squeezed for many hardwood pulp producers worldwide with higher wood fiber costs and lower product prices. The hardwood wood fiber price index (HFPI) reached a 24-year high in the 3Q/11 at the same time as hardwood pulp prices fell by 26% from June through October, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
According to a press release (from Greenpeace) Lego as the first major toy manufacturers, have a plan for their world-famous toy pieces and not ship the toys in packages made of paper and logged rainforest and suppliers who are involved in the destruction of the hard-exposed Indonesian rainforest among them Asia Pulp & Paper(APP).
Exports of pulp from Indonesia should gain momentum in coming months, adding further instability to the market. The increased supply of raw materials from Indonesia, mainly to Chinese customers, due to local government approval for the planting of forests in new areas, can lead to higher capacity utilization of factories. There is a new factory, in Kerinci (Sumatra), which should start producing 850 000 tones.
Researchers learned that CO2 emissions from deforestation have slowed by 27% since 2000 compared to the 1990s. This is primarly because the rate at which tropical rainforests in countries like Indonesia and Brazil are being cut down has slowed down; and strategies to encourage tree planting in Europe and Asia have helped provide a carbon sink so called because trees absorb CO2.
NewPage Corporation (NewPage) today announced its results of operations for the second quarter of 2010. Net sales were $890 million in the second quarter of 2010 compared to $736 million in the second quarter of 2009, an increase of $154 million, or 21 percent. The increase in net sales resulted primarily from higher sales volumes, partially offset by lower average paper prices during the quarter. Net sales in the second quarter of 2009 were affected by decreased advertising spending and magazine and catalog circulation that was largely attributable to general economic factors and inventory reductions by customers.
NewPage, together with two other U.S. coated paper producers and the United Steelworkers Union, continues to pursue the antidumping and countervailing duty cases filed last year against Chinese and Indonesian imports of certain coated paper.
Sweden provides SEK 500 million for action against deforestation, 100 million SEK goes to the Global Environment Facility, GEF (Global Environmental Facility) and applications for sustainable forest management and in addition bilateral assistance for at least 400 million.
In beginning of May Germany announced that they would spend at least Euro 350 million (~USD 450m) of their “fast-start” climate finance on REDD+. The Oslo Climate and Forest Conference aim to launch the Interim REDD+ Partnership through the adoption of a voluntary non-legally binding partnership document. REDD + is the result of negotiations within the UNFCCC.
World deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has decreased over the past ten years but continues at an alarmingly high rate in many countries, FAO announced in a press release lately.
Forest Day 3 in Copenhagen abstract: Carbon emissions from land-use change are estimated to account for one-fifth of current global carbon emissions. Reducing emissions from deforestationand forest degradation (REDD) has been promoted as an effective and efficient climate change mitigation option. Much of the debate has focused on the global architecture and how REDD+ can be included in a post-2012 climate agreement.
Article from Reuters about deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia. "The only way to measure forests efficiently is from space," said Jose Achache, director of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), which is linking governments, space agencies such as NASA and others in a new partnership to measure forests.
Indonesia and China will cooperate in management and certification of forest products to ensure legal wood trading between them to meet with rules on certification of origin under the US Lacey Act, a media reported in Jakarta Friday. China has become one of the world's largest importers of wood products from Indonesia, Russia, African countries and Solomon island.
Original article from China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-09/25/content_8737620.htm
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Sweden provides SEK 500 million for action against deforestation, 100 million SEK goes to the Global Environment Facility, GEF (Global Environmental Facility) and applications for sustainable forest management and in addition bilateral assistance for at least 400 million.
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