In the Solomon Islands this week I heard how Tourism is being promoted as a major development industry to replace forestry – when all the trees are gone in probably less than a decade. To many people in the world forestry is just an extractive industry – like mining. (more…)
New Zealand would be well placed at Copenhagen if this modified Emissions Trading Scheme is settled in legislation by December. We would be ahead of both Australia and the United States where legislation introducing similar schemes is still being debated. While Europe has had an ETS since 2005, it covers a narrower range of sectors.
says the Kyoto Forestry Association. (more…)
| GREEN SCORE | NEW ZEALAND FORESTRY |
| Effort | B+ |
| Results | A- |
In New Zealand we farm pine trees, like wheat or corn. Do people complain about seeing harvested wheat and corn fields? No. Because New Zealand is a pioneer in plantation forestry, our practices are foreign to many overseas visitors. Their countries still harvest large areas of natural forests for wood fibre (eg North America). Or where natural forests have long been plundered (eg metropolitan Asia), import wood from developing countries who are only now in full plunder mode. (more…)