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UN News Centre
The 14th World Forestry Congress concluded on Sept. 11 with a declaration setting out a vision for 2050 that sees forests playing "a decisive role" in ending hunger, improving livelihoods and combating climate change, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The Congress "underlined that forests are critical to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a message to the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, which will meet later this month in New York to adopt the 2030 development agenda," FAO said in a news release.
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The Oregonian
A lumber mill in Riddle, Oregon, is the first certified to produce a new type of wood building material praised as environmentally sustainable — and one that might be a boon for rural Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown announced Thursday that $350,000 will be dedicated to boost the effort to make Oregon a hub for cross-laminated timber, or CLT. That money includes a forgivable loan and a $150,000 grant.
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University of Kentucky
The Kentucky Wood Expo returns to Masterson Station Park in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sept. 18 and 19, and University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension will have a big hand in two days of educational and fun activities for the entire family. The biennial event, sponsored by the Kentucky Forest Industries Association, offers classes, competitions and more than 100 exhibits and demonstrations for everyone, from the forest professional to simple lovers of wood and wildlife.
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Woodworking Network
Arauco North America is investing $325 million to build the largest continuous press particleboard mill in North America. Located in Grayling, Michigan, the new mill will produce 424 million square feet of panels per year, along with full lamination capabilities to support the Prism TFL decorative surfacing program. The plant is expected to break ground in late 2016 and be operational in the latter part of 2018.
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TheStreet
Lumber is a relatively difficult market to follow. The easy part is new home and multifamily construction — because statistics are collected — but lumber is used in many other ways that are not monitored as closely. Supply statistics come out late. Lumber prices have trended lower the past 12 months, only interrupted once with a $50 countertrend rally. Prices have made lower lows, but the momentum study in the lower part of the chart is making a higher low and the rate of price decline is slowing. The decline is slowing because someone is buying! This could be foreshadowing a subsequent rally.
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Biomass Magazine
Finnish MHG Systems' mobile and internet cloud service Woodland Manager was launched last week at the Confor Woodland Show at Longleat Estate U.K. This real-time planning and management tool brings efficiency and productivity gains directly to forest owners' and managers' mobile devices. Woodland Manager helps create forest management plans that meet U.K. forest standards.
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Environment News Service
Over the past 25 years, the rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than 50 percent, even though the world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forested land is developed, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, reports. Some 129 million hectares of forest — an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa — have been lost since 1990, according to FAO's most comprehensive forest review to date, "The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015."
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E&T magazine
A new type of biomass-based fuel has been developed which its inventors claim could directly replace coal in power plants without the need for costly refurbishments. The fuel-making process developed by Biomass Energy Enhancements converts all types of plant-based and wood-based matter into a fuel suitable for coal-fired power stations either as an immediate replacement for coal or to be mixed with coal to reduce carbon footprint.
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The Economic Voice
A coalition of European and international organisations is calling on the EU to exclude bioenergy from its next Renewable Energy Directive and, thereby, to stop direct and indirect subsidies for renewable energy from going to biofuels and wood burning. Campaigners have published a new briefing on the impacts of the EU's bioenergy policies and say that they are targeting policy makers.
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