Forest Trends in the News

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but reporting on the environment in Vietnam is not an easy task. The one-party state was recently ranked 175 out of 180 in Reporters Without Borders’ 2017 World Press Freedom Index, between Sudan and China.

Science has been around since the beginning of human civilization. It was the engine behind Aristotle’s ambitious effort to fly and even earlier than that, it helped the Babylonians fashion an understanding of time and their universe.

Ngày 19/1, Hiệp hội Gỗ và Lâm sản Việt Nam đã tổ chức hội thảo “Làng nghề gỗ Việt Nam trong bối cảnh hội nhập: Thực trạng và các lựa chọn về chính sách phát triển bền vững”.

Kết thúc năm 2015, XK gỗ đã tiến sát mốc 7 tỷ USD khi đạt 6,891 tỷ USD, tăng 10% so với năm trước đó. Trên cơ sở đó, khi bước vào năm 2016, ngành gỗ đã đặt mục tiêu lần đầu tiên XK vượt mốc 7 tỷ USD. Tuy nhiên, XK gỗ năm 2016 […]

According to preliminary statistics from Vietnam Customs, from January 1 to December 15, the wood sector grossed more than 7.2 billion USD in export turnover, which is hoped to top 8.5 billion USD by the year’s end, including exports of furniture.

Global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to reach record highs in 2017 and again in 2018, according to estimates by the Global Carbon Project. This comes after a three-year period where emissions remained flat, which many scientists had hoped signaled a peak in climate warming emissions.

Every few years, New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity surveys economists who have expertise on climate change, and it always finds overwhelming support for putting a price on carbon to drive down emissions — support that ideologues on the right routinely dismiss, usually on unfounded “economic” grounds.

Whether it’s the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa – the world’s forests are being razed to sate global demand for […]

HANOI – Experts and entrepreneurs say the main source of raw timber, especially rubber wood, for processing products for export will be in short supply in the long run.

Developments in international policy, new standards and the promise of future demand from the aviation industry are pushing the voluntary carbon market forward, the top firms in Environmental Finance’s 2017 rankings say