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U.S. Department of State
On Dec. 1, at COP21 in Paris, France, leading companies announced that they intend to prioritize their sourcing of commodities in regions implementing large-scale forest and climate programs. The U.S. welcomes this innovative new approach from Marks & Spencer and Unilever, and the expectation that other companies will join in this approach. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell attended the announcement in Paris and noted the importance of this public-private approach.
This move to source from jurisdictions combating deforestation will bring together the power of global agricultural supply chains with strong government commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Street Roots News
Greenhouse gas emissions from timber industry practices in western Oregon are at least four times greater than emissions from Oregon's last remaining coal plant in Boardman, and equivalent to between 2 million and 4 million new cars on the road, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Sustainable Economy, Geos Institute and Oregon Wild.
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Biomass Magazine
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced that the U.S. DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has awarded $125 million to 41 energy technology projects, four of which involve bioenergy or biomass. According to program criteria, the projects selected for funding will pursue novel approaches to energy innovation across the full spectrum of energy applications. Approximately 36 percent are being led by universities, 39 percent by small businesses, 10 percent by large businesses, 10 percent by national labs and 5 percent by nonprofits, according to the DOE.
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Nature World News
Wood pellets have become an increasingly popular alternative fuel source, and are even more environmentally friendly compared to coal. In fact, greenhouse gas emissions from wood pellet-based electrical plants are between 74 and 85 percent lower than those of coal-firing plants, a University of Illinois study revealed.
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The Badger Herald
Despite pressures of globalization and an aging workforce, the University of Wisconsin Forestry Department has no plans to change. With the largest number of forestry jobs in the nation, Wisconsin feels the shift in demand for wood products overseas acutely, according to DNR analysts.
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Forestry
Bioclimate models incorporating topographic predictors as surrogates for microclimate effects are developed for Populus tremuloides and Picea engelmannii to provide the fine-grained specificity to local terrain required for adapting management of three Colorado national forests and their periphery to climate change.
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Australian Broadcasting Company
Forestry representatives say Australia risks not having enough well-trained foresters to take over the burgeoning industry, which is suffering from a bad public image. Canberra's Institute of Foresters of Australia said the sector had been grappling with the problem for the past five years and could face a looming skills shortage if more students did not study forestry at a postgraduate and masters level.
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The Washington Times
A federal judge has ordered the former owners of a northern Indiana wood-recycling plant to pay $50.6 million in damages to people who lived nearby and contended its dust and fumes threatened their health. U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon last week ordered a default judgment against VIM Recycling Inc. and K.C. Industries and its owner Kenneth R. Will, with six named defendants receiving a total of $697,500 and 134 class members receiving a total of $15.6 million and 885 others receiving $34.3 million.
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The Telegraph
One of Britain's dozen remaining coal-fired power plants is to be converted to burn wood pellets shipped in from North America, after the European Commission approved a major subsidy contract for the project.
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