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Australia: Emissions Trading Scheme update

22 June 2009
by David Coombes, Anna Wilson and Christine Hutchinson THE START date for the emissions trading scheme has been pushed back 12 months as the politics over the scheme unfold. If the new Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill (CPRS) is passed and phased in as promised from 1 July 2011
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Agreement with PNG another step forward in fight against illegal logging

11 June 2009
Australia and Papua New Guinea have formally agreed to join forces to tackle illegal logging, with an agreement signed at the Australia Papua New Guinea Ministerial Forums in Brisbane.
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$50K to advance Australia’s forestry industry

11 June 2009
Innovators have just a few weeks to win up to $50,000 to advance Australia’s forestry and other rural industries.
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Timber industry set to generate employment with infrastructure-led recovery

11 June 2009
Plantation forestry expansion is driving a massive increase in investment in the timber processing industry with infrastructure and development proposals worth around $7 billion of new capacity set to generate around 6,000 jobs, according to the National Association of Forest Industri
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MIS forest managers growing wood for an undersupplied domestic market

01 June 2009
In the torrent of media commentary about the recent collapse of major agribusiness managed investment scheme companies, Timbercorp and Great Southern, many of the statements made by the most vocal MIS detractors have been factually wrong or at best misleading, according to the Austral
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Forest activists recklessly misleading the community on woodchips

25 May 2009
Victoria’s peak forest industries body says extremist climate activists are recklessly and deliberately misleading the community about the role of woodchipping in Victoria’s forest industries.
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Bushfire devastation inevitable without forest industry

20 May 2009
In its submission to the Black Saturday Bushfires Royal Commission, the Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI), Victoria’s peak forestry body, has warned of a further reduction in bushfire prevention and suppression capabilities without the presence of a strong forest indus
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Auction of Ord’s oldest tropical sandalwood

20 May 2009
The oldest tropical sandalwood to come out of Kununurra will go to the market for the first time at the Forest Products Commission’s (FPC) auction at Harvey on Saturday, 23 May.
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On the way to financial recovery

20 May 2009
Australia's top central banker said that the country was in a good position to stage a recovery, although he warned growth was likely to slow in the early part of the global expansion cycle.
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Data confirms state forests as carbon sink

20 May 2009
Forestry Tasmania today released new figures that confirm state forests are a net carbon sink.
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