“This volume of softwood log exports was down 10.2 percent from the 2008 volume of 776.3 million board feet, while the volume of softwood lumber exports was up 17.5 percent from 293.0 million board feet,” said Debra Warren, an economist with the station.Warren compiled the data from the U.S. International Trade Commission and will publish [...]
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We assessed options for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation in the US Great Lakes States, a region heavily dependent on coal-fired power plants. A proposed 600 MW power plant in northern Lower Michigan, USA provided context for our evaluation. Options to offset fossil CO2 emissions by 20% included biomass fuel substitution from (1) [...] In several policy documents bioenergy is recognized as an important renewable energy source in Italy. The increase in energy prices represents an opportunity for lignocellulosic energy crops such as acacia and poplar.However, for Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) and Short Rotation Forestry (SRF) to be adopted by farmers, these crops must be perceived to be at [...] In The Value of Nature lecture, Pavan Sukhdev will talk about this incredible cost of continuing to take nature for granted. He will also explain the costs and benefits of actions taken to reduce these losses.Pavan is a senior banker at Deutsche Bank and is currently on secondment to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) [...] Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig have written a very good summary of carbon sequestration in soil: “Soil and Carbon Climate Change: Carbon Exchange in the Terrestrial Domain of Agriculture”, CSA News, Vol. 54 No. 6, June 2009. If you somehow missed the soil classes in your geology courses, this article illustrates the big picture. Why [...] The approach to determine national baselines, or reference levels, for quantifying REDD has emerged as central to negotiations over a REDD mechanism in a post-Kyoto policy framework. The baseline approach is critical to the success of a REDD mechanism because it affects the quantity, credibility, and equity of credits generated from efforts to reduce forest [...] Policies allocating credits to countries for reducing deforestation and forest degradation should monitor illegal timber trade and take into account the policy-induced leakage of wood extraction to other countries. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904942106 |
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