The plunging demand for lumber will lead to significant losses of residual chips, crucial input to North American pulp and paper mills. “This will likely be the worst-ever,” a company analyst has told International Woodfiber Report. “The chip slump, predicted for several quarters but realised to only a lesser degree through 2007, will arrive in […]

Procter & Gamble and Domtar Corp have joined the North America Forest & Trade Network (NAFTN) in a bid to make their wood-based products more sustainably sourced. This announcement from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is the second development to cast a spotlight on the issue of sustainable forest sourcing. On Tuesday, ForestEthics and Dogwood Alliance released […]

The PEFC Council has issued a position paper on the carbon issue and forest certification. The paper outlines possible links between the mitigation of global climate change and carbon emission and their interactions with forest certification activities. PEFC believes that any credible mechanism of carbon credit trading must recognise and reward the carbon sink created […]

The World Bank will embark on afforestation program in 12 northern states of Nigeria, an official of Nigerian Forestry Association (NFA) has been quoted as saying, according to an online report out of China on ChinaDaily.com.