Forests
Green Business Network report
Submitted by staff on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 23:02
ShareThisThe Green Business Network aims to provide tools and support to businesses willing to work towards a sustainable future for the Heart of Borneo. By working together we can secure the natural resources on which businesses rely and develop an international reputation for the Heart of Borneo as a place to do green and sustainable business.
We aim to work with:
Exporting in a Shifting Legal Landscape
Submitted by staff on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 19:42
ShareThisGFTN's guide to legal exports, Exporting in a Shifting Legal Landscape, is aimed at companies that currently export, or intend to export, forest products to the US market.
GFTN's Guide to Legal and Responsible Sourcing
Submitted by staff on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 12:55
ShareThisSince the Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) first published its Guide to Responsible Purchasing of Forest Products over five years ago, followed by the closely associated Keep It Legal manual there have been numerous developments in both international policy and trade.
A New Sustainability Standard for Business
Submitted by staff on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 06:28
ShareThisFrom Greenbiz.com: Today, the veil of secrecy is being lifted on a project in which my colleagues and I have been engaged for several years: The creation of a global sustainability standard for business.
Human well-being better in a better protected environment: WWF
Submitted by staff on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 15:34
ShareThisBonn, May 22, 2008 – Well planned and managed protected areas can play a key role in reducing poverty, with the relationship strengthened when well-being is measured as more than just income, according to a new analysis by WWF.
Environmental protection vital to reducing natural disaster impact...
Submitted by staff on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 15:34
ShareThisBonn, May 20, 2008 – Environmental degradation is a key factor turning extreme weather events into natural disasters, a new WWF report has found. WWF is urging governments to create suitable protected areas and to maintaining natural ecosystems, such as coastal mangroves, coral reefs, floodplains and forest, that may help buffer against natural hazards.
Human health linked directly to forest health
Submitted by staff on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 15:34
ShareThisGland, Switzerland – Environmental degradation is causing serious detrimental health impacts for humans, but protecting natural habitats can reverse this and supply positive health benefits, according to a new WWF report.
Landscape Outcome Assessment Methodology (LOAM) in Practice
Submitted by staff on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 15:34
ShareThisConservation and development agencies, including WWF, IUCN and the World Bank, are increasingly focusing their efforts at a landscape level.
Natural Solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change
Submitted by staff on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 15:34
ShareThisClimate change poses an unprecedented level of threat to life on the planet. The facts are well known. Atmospheric greenhouse gases are creating warmer temperatures, ice melt, sea-level rise and an unpredictable climate, with a range of extremely serious and hard-to-predict consequences.
Gift of the Himalayas - high value plants and NTFPs
Submitted by staff on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 15:34
ShareThisThe Himalayas are a rich repository of flora with a large number of native plants and high value nontimber forest products.The high topographic complexity and related climatic variability of the Sacred Himalayan Landscape has given rise to significant ecological gradients, and thus, high ecosystem diversity over a relatively small area and due attention for conservation of these natural resources.
