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New Zealand: Forestry

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David Rhodes ... forestry has high profile at Poznan

Foresters have high hopes for Kyoto proposal

9 Dec 2008

New Zealand foresters will soon be able to gauge international reaction to their push for key changes to the regulations for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

Wairarapa pine planters mourn loss of ETS millions

9 Dec 2008

Wairarapa’s long-established pine forests would have generated the best part of $5 million for their owners if the emissions trading scheme had gone ahead, says carbon trader Greenair.

Nick Smith ... yes, I'll talk.

At last, forest owners get a date with the minister

9 Dec 2008

Representatives from the forestry industry will finally have an opportunity to put their concerns over delays to the emissions trading scheme to the new Minister for Climate Change Issues, Nick Smith, in person this week.

David Rhodes ... NZ issues before Poznan conference.

World listens to NZ forest owners' Kyoto case

5 Dec 2008

New Zealand forest owners have made a key advance in their efforts to advocate for Kyoto Protocol regulations to be altered to allow for land-use change.

Wait for trading road to clear, foresters told

5 Dec 2008

Forest owners are being advised to wait out the current period of emissions trading uncertainty amid calls for the carbon trading sector to be regulated.

Foresters fear trading advice is a waste of time

2 Dec 2008

The forestry industry fears that the wrong kind of advice is stepping in to fill the vacuum left by the new government as forest owners struggle to come to terms with what New Zealand’s potential emissions trading turn-around might mean.

Forest owners to confront new minister with facts

25 Nov 2008

Forest owners expect to meet the new Minister for Climate Change Issues Nick Smith later this week to tell him what National and Act’s agreement to review and potentially scrap the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is costing the industry.

Bryan Gundersen ... modified ETS likely outcome.

Don't panic, emissions expert tells NZUs sellers

25 Nov 2008

There are still opportunities for foresters looking to sell NZUs, says Kensington Swan partner Bryan Gundersen.

Roger Dickie ... buying orders for land cancelled.

ETS delay deal scuppers forestry project worth millions

18 Nov 2008

A $125 million forestry project has been scrapped and scores of forestry jobs lost as a result of a deal between the Act and the new National government to review the emissions trading scheme.

David Rhodes ... lobbying in Rome.

EXCLUSIVE: Forest owners make Kyoto advance

4 Nov 2008

The Forest Owners' Association has made a major international advance in its push to get forest-offsetting and other issues included in Kyoto Protocol regulations.

Nervous foresters: We don't want policy flip-flops

31 Oct 2008

Foresters awaiting regulations due to released at the end of the year in order to make firm calculations of their carbon credits and liabilities fear that a new government might turn the existing policy on its head.

Forest owners could benefit from weak carbon prices

28 Oct 2008

Falling world carbon prices could work to the advantage of New Zealand forest owners.

We're wasting our wood resource, says biofuel innovator

14 Oct 2008

A world-leading New Zealand innovator says he despairs over the country's inertia when it comes to using its abundant wood waste resource.

Shane Ahern ... prepared to go into bat for forest industry.

Nats vow to sweep new broom through forest industry

26 Sep 2008

National hopes to sweep a new broom through the forestry sector, promising changes to the Resource Management Act, pushing for offsetting to be included in the Kyoto Protocol, and creating open, regular dialogue between the government and industry.

ANALYSIS: Our future under K2 bleak without forestry

26 Sep 2008

The release of the National Party’s forestry policy has received a warm reception from the sector, with the New Zealand Forest Owner’s Association applauding the party for listening to the industry.

Market readies as NZUs about to go on line

23 Sep 2008

Excitement is mounting on the trading markets as NZUs (New Zealand units) are about to go live.

Steve Wilton ... expects forest costs to be high.

Promises, promises ... but what are the costs, asks forester

19 Sep 2008

The “Cassandra of carbon trading” says that the ETS-era is characterised with promises of rewards, yet riddled with unknown costs to achieve them.

ETS picture becoming clearer for forest owners

16 Sep 2008

The forestry sector will know precisely how to participate in the emissions trading scheme when the forestry stakeholder reference group meets with MAF at the end of the month.

Forest owners: Problems have not gone away

12 Sep 2008

The treatment of pre-1990 forests under the emissions trading scheme will emerge again as a major issue, warns the New Zealand Forest Owners’ Association.

Forest owners first to feel effects of ETS

11 Sep 2008

Forest owners will be the first New Zealanders into the emissions trading scheme - with the first entering within 10 weeks.

David Parker ... sympathy for landowners.

Parker: Not the time to move on offset planting

5 Sep 2008

Allowing land-owners to transfer forestry blocks to marginal land now would shoot New Zealand’s long-term international interests in the foot, says Climate Change Minister David Parker

Te Ururoa Flavell ... millions at stake.

Govt: ETS forestry compo benefits large number of iwi

5 Sep 2008

The Government claims a large number of iwi believe the compensation package under the emissions trading scheme gives them a net benefit rather than a net cost.

Carbon credit sharing fails to impress wood processors

29 Aug 2008

Sharing carbon credits around is not enough of a remedy for wood processors bracing themselves for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme.

Greenair: Forestry carbon opportunities are real

12 Aug 2008

Greenair Group has entered the Wairarapa-Manawatu debate over get-rich-quick interests seeking to take advantage of regional farmers and foresters through carbon credit schemes.

Steve Wilton ... carbon trading euphoria is premature.

Forester warns farmers of get-rich-quick carbon hucksters

5 Aug 2008

A forester is warning landowners to beware of “hucksters” pushing get-rich-quick schemes based on carbon trading.

Roger Dickie ... ready to wage war.

We'll fight for our forest rights, owners warn ETS policy-makers

25 Jul 2008

Kyoto Forest Owners say they will wage war if either major political party reneges on promises over carbon credits worth millions of dollars.

John Key ... rolled by his backbench, decided to delay, and can't govern alone on ETS

ANALYSIS: Heavy emitters and National scoring major own goal

25 Jul 2008

The little-covered press release issued by the Kyoto Forestry Association this week, seeking major-party assurances its members will still get hundreds of millions of dollars worth of carbon credits, speaks of the unspeakable position anti-emissions trading campaigners have got themselves and others into.

REACTION: NZ emission scheme should pick up some Aussie ideas, say forest owners

16 Jul 2008

Forest owners have welcomed the release by the Australian Government of its preferred policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Tasman mill at Kawerau ... the worst case is that Norske Skog walks away.

Paper giant might fold and flee if NZ emissions scheme 'hostile'

8 Jul 2008

International paper giant Norske Skog might quit New Zealand if it is confronted by what it regards as a hostile emissions regime, sources say.

David Rhodes ... clearly harvested wood products have a role.

Forest owners urge NZ to follow Garnaut carbon storage action

8 Jul 2008

Australia’s emissions trading scheme is likely to recognise carbon stored in wood products – something New Zealand’s own forest industry would like to see on the table for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Envrionment Dr Jan Wright

New report: more carbon credits needed to protect native forests

1 Jul 2008

Landowners will clear regenerating forests for exotic forests or farming if the carbon-storage capacity of indigenous trees is not fairly recognised under the emissions trading scheme.

Peter Clark ... forestry is a long-term game for long-term gains.

Report underestimates benefits of increased forestry planting, say forest owners

27 Jun 2008

A recent report from the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development grossly underestimates the potential benefits generated by the forestry sector under the proposed emissions trading scheme, says the forest owners’ association (NZFOA), because the report does not factor in the ongoing and increasing ability of newly-planted forests to sequester carbon.

Tree planting will have little effect on carbon - report

20 Jun 2008

A Ministry for the Environment report predicts forestry’s new planting levels will have a minimal impact on New Zealand’s overall carbon account situation for the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol - regardless of whether afforestation occurs at a rate of zero, 5000 or 20,000ha per annum.

Peter Clark

Government forestry policies costly mistake, say owners

17 Jun 2008

New Zealand’s national carbon accounts could be up to $1.5 billion worse off in the second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol than if the Government’s policies had encouraged levels of new plantings consistent with those of the 1990s, according to financial modelling by Peter Clark, climate change spokesman for the New Zealand Forest Owners’ Association and chief executive of PF Olsen Ltd.

Forestry owners: Ministers claim of liabilities warning not true

13 Jun 2008

Claims by forestry minister Jim Anderton on Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report yesterday that land owners were warned five years ago of potential deforestation liabilities are not correct, the New Zealand Forest Owners Association said yesterday.

Major deforestation ... driven by need to avoid cimate change policies or higher value dairy use?

Major deforestation reported, but MAF survey shows ETS will lift replanting rates

11 Jun 2008

National yesterday decried the worst ever loss of 13,600 hectares of forest last year as a disaster for the environment. However it will vote against the ETS, which a MAF study reveals will boost replating rates by 5 to 15%.

Sustainable logging in Sandakan, Malaysia  ... will the wood come labelled from now on?

Major policy clamp down on climate-warming illegal wood imports?

28 May 2008

The Cabinet has agreed in principle to mandatory labelling of all kwila products sold in New Zealand.

Chopping down more trees good for environment

Kiwis embrace the chop-down-trees environmental message

27 May 2008

New Zealanders think using more wood is good for the environment.

MAF: wood supply to jump about 3 million cu m a year

27 May 2008

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) has released new wood availability forecasts for the Central North Island that indicate a steady increase in supply for the region over the next 12 years.

Fiji .. tourist paradise to carbon sink

Aggressive EU move to use Fiji as carbon sink, vital for NZ forest interests

22 May 2008

Fiji is facing a new future as a repository of carbon credits.

Deforestation Risk Overstated

21 May 2008

Fears that a temporary delay in the passage of the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill could lead to significant deforestation are unfounded, according to the Flexible Land Use Alliance.

Forest owners tell ETS body: Our burden is unfair

13 May 2008

The forestry industry’s displeasure at being the only sector left in the early stages of the emissions trading scheme reached Parliament yesterday.

Californian coastal redwoods

Forest giant could be carbon-saving crop of the future

5 May 2008

Foresters wanting to cash in on the carbon trading regime are being told to think Californian coastal redwoods.

Tree-mendous ... Charles to check on our forests

2 May 2008

Internal Affairs officials are in the early planning stages for a visit by the Prince of Wales and they have been advised by their UK counterparts it will be all business, rainforest business.

Deer hunters stalk carbon sink scheme

24 Apr 2008

The Deerstalkers' Association wants to sink a government proposal to wipe out deer from blocks of the Aorangi Forest on the Wairarapa coast.

Small-forest scheme open for business

23 Apr 2008

Applications are now open for the Government's new Afforestation Grant Scheme aimed at getting more trees planted on farms as part of New Zealand's effort to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Wellington and its town belts .. worth hundreds of thousands a year in emission credit revenue?

Wellington City decides on carbon credit revenue plan from town belts, forests

21 Apr 2008

Wellington City is looking to earn large annual revenues from emission credits by turning its town belts and forests into carbon sinks.

New productivity indicators also helpful for carbon modelling

New indicators predict productivity of forestry sites

9 Apr 2008

Forestry scientists at Scion have for the first time developed the key soil and environmental indicators that show the productive capacity of sites in every part of New Zealand where someone may want to plant a forest.

GreenAir ... offering up funding to work up foresters' emission credit business

GreenAir Fund pitches for major new forestry emision unit business

8 Apr 2008

With new forestry in New Zealand eligible for NZUs (New Zealand carbon offset units) from January 1 this year, the Sydney-based GreenAir Fund is bidding for new business here by offering up-front funding to complete the qualification design and certification of a potential carbon credit project.

Professor reviewing forestry offset scheme proposal

3 Apr 2008

The Flexible Land Use Alliance has appointed Professor Lewis Evans to review a draft report by the University of Waikato and Covec on proposed changes to the forestry components of the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill, including the introduction of a Forestry Offset Scheme.

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