14 Apr 2010
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday launched a mandatory scheme to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from large office buildings and factories. The first cap-and-trade programme in Asia, it allows entities to purchase emissions credits achieved by others. The city accounts for around 5 per cent of Japan's greenhouse gas emissions.
22 Apr 2010
An exciting future for forestry on farms is foreseen by new Farm Forestry Association president John Dermer.
23 Apr 2010
The forestry and wood product industries are organising a festival to showcase the sector during Rugby World Cup 2011.
28 Apr 2010
New Zealand needs to make a modest step forward on climate change with an ETS on 1 July to provide incentives to invest in forestry, renewable energy and more efficient technology, Climate Change Issues Minister Nick Smith says.
30 Apr 2010
A task force set up last month by Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to root out the legal corruption that allows widespread illegal logging, may be too late for Indonesia's legal forestry industry. It says its members are going bankrupt as a result of the activities of illegal loggers.
30 Apr 2010
The Wood Processors and Frame and Truss Manufacturers Association (WPA) have supported the findings of the Commerce Commission which has fined Total Frame and Truss Ltd for using substandard timber in its products, says WPA CEO Peter Bodeker.
28 January 2011
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity shipping costs, has fallen to the lowest level in almost two years partly in response to the floods in Australia curbing coal shipments, says the National Bank of New Zealand in its January Rural Focus.
27 January 2011
The British Government has unveiled its long-awaited plans for the Forestry Commission, proposing to lease woodland to private sector operators and hand over control of England's "heritage forests" to charitable trusts.
26 January 2011
Unions representing wood processing workers said that while a meeting with government yesterday was constructive, there remain serious differences on solutions for the jobs crisis in wood processing.
