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Sveaskog is a sponsor of World Bioenergy 2012
Sveaskog is Sweden’s largest forest owner and leading supplier of timber, pulpwood and biomass. Our target is to create higher value by finding new ways to use the forest assets and the wood. In this work biomass has a central role. Sveaskog has a long history of supplying specific raw material to our customers. Together with our customers we create solutions which add value both for us and ...
By Elmia AB
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Looking Forward To National Bioenergy Day
The third annual National Bioenergy Day will be occurring on October 21, 2015, across the United States. This special day is led by the Biomass Power Association in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, and is intended to allow organizations to showcase the benefits of bioenergy to their communities. The National Bioenergy Day 2015 Participation Guide outlines some of the best ways to ...
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Durban Climate Summit enables carbon cuts from peatlands
The Durban Climate Summit has delivered an overall rather meager agreement. A positive outcome has though come forward to reduce emissions from peatlands, both in REDD+ from developing as under the Kyoto Protocol for developed countries. Wetlands International celebrates this result.Peatlands represent 6% of global emissions and until now, no incentive existed under the UNFCCC for reduce these. ...
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UK’s First Continuous Pyrolysis Plant for ELT Makes Industry Award Shortlist
The UK’s first continuous pyrolysis plant for end-of-life tyres operated by Carlton Forest Renewables has been shortlisted in two categories at the prestigious National Recycling Awards hosted by Materials Recycling World. The company, which expects to begin 24/7 operations imminently and has developed the unique technology over a period of years, has been shortlisted in the Team of the ...
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Amazon soaking up less carbon as tree deaths rise
The Amazon rainforest is losing its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, raising concerns about how the forest will respond to future climate and atmospheric changes, according to a study in Nature. The study, published on 18 March, found that net uptake of CO2 by the Amazon forest has dropped from two billion tonnes a year in the 1990s to about half that today. This ...
By SciDev.Net
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The Nature Conservancy and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Explore Responsible Sourcing for Bioenergy Feedstocks
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) launched a pilot project today to help bioenergy companies in the United States support responsible forest management through their procurement of woody biomass. The joint effort reflects the recognition by both organizations that the bioenergy industry provides new market opportunities for forest landowners and ...
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Svebio presents proposals to stimulate Swedish biorefinery investments
The Swedish Bioenergy Association (Svebio) has presented a series of robust steering instrument proposals that it says would enable Sweden to realize the potential of forest residues as feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels for transportation including shipping and aviation. Several Swedish companies are developing technologies for converting forest raw materials into high-quality ...
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Tropical soil carbon sink under threat
There are strong concerns that the conversion of tropical forests into land for agriculture or plantations has negative effects on the carbon budget. A new study conducted in South-East Asia reveals that moderate or heavy disturbance of tropical forests can damage fine root structures, which in turn reduce carbon transfer to the soil. Tropical forests are being converted into agricultural land ...
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Eaton Appoints Stephanie R. Fulbright Vice President, Global Real Estate
Power management company Eaton today announced that Stephanie R. Fulbright has been appointed vice president, Global Real Estate. Fulbright will report directly to Trent M. Meyerhoefer, senior vice president, Treasury, and will be based at Eaton Center in Beachwood, Ohio. Fulbright will lead Eaton’s global real estate function and establish and implement the company’s real estate ...
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World premiere: New slash bundler from John Deere
More horsepower plus new hydraulic and operating systems. Those are some of the innovations on John Deere’s new bundler, the 1190E, which is being shown for the first time at World Bioenergy in Jönköping, Sweden. “Machines for handling biomass are an important part of our product mix,” explains Per Väppling, marketing manager for John Deere in Sweden and Norway. ...
By Elmia AB
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Reliable method of determining biomass and carbon stocks in forests
Terrestrial laser scanning is a technique that allows the structure of vegetation to be 3D-mapped to the millimetre. A first research project in Australia has shown that this technique can be used to more accurately determine the biomass of trees; far more so than the methods currently in use. This makes it an important development in the monitoring of carbon stocks for worldwide climate ...
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Opportunities and risks of wood energy production
The use of wood energy can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and can contribute to poverty reduction, FAO said today. But the agency warned that the use of wood for fuel can result in deforestation or forest degradation if sustainable forest management is not effectively practiced. Wood is the most important biofuel, mainly in developing countries. Today half of the annual harvest of ...
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Indian State Closes Eight Pyrolysis Plants
The seemingly never-ending fight to clean up the tyre pyrolysis sector in India spreads far wider than the Indian sub-continent. Not least is to the reputation of pyrolysis as a chemical process that can help clean up our wastes.The Karnataka government ordered the closure of up to eight pyrolysis plants in the Bidar district., It also instructed two pharmaceutical companies to close their ...
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Iberdrola Renewables Starts Biomass Energy Construction in Lakeview, Ore.
Long-Awaited Lakeview Biomass Cogeneration Plant Expected to Bring Jobs, Improved Forest Health to Southern Oregon PORTLAND, Ore. - Iberdrola Renewables today announced the start of construction at its 26.8-megawatt Lakeview Biomass Cogeneration Plant in Lakeview, Ore. The Lakeview project is expected to finish construction and begin producing enough power for 18,000 typical homes by the fall of ...
By Iberdrola
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Forest in Valencia, Spain to be Named After JinkoSolar
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), a leading global PV solar power product manufacturer, today announced that Valencia Club de Futbol (V.C.F.) has signed an agreement with the Valencian Community and the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment to plant a new forest which will be named "Forest Foundation Valencia CF-Jinko Solar" ("Valencia-Jinko ...
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New maps reveal Enviva’s Ahoskie wood pellet facility threatens southern wetland forests, surrounding ecosystems and wildlife
New maps and a report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Dogwood Alliance reveal the ecological threat a major wood pellet manufacturing mill in Ahoskie, North Carolina, poses to surrounding endangered forests. The facility, operated by the South’s largest exporter of wood pellets, Enviva, produces approximately 400,000 tons of wood pellets per year to ship ...
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How Wood Biomass Can Help Solve Climate Change
The recent UN Report on climate change has put renewable energy back in the headlines, and rightly so. If we want to avoid the most serious damage from climate change, we need an all-in approach, solutions that are available today, and policies that support our working forests. While solar and wind power are the most talked-about renewable solutions, bioenergy is a critical part of the mix ...
By Enviva LP
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Media invitation: Advanced biofuels – Nordic region in the forefront
The Nordic region is in the forefront both for production and demand of advanced biofuels from cellulose, residues and waste. One example: both Norway, Sweden and Finland have targets for 30% biobased jetfuel in 2030. Another example: there are more than 60 projects for production of biofuels, up and running, under construction, or in planning. Both pilots, demonstration plants, and commercial ...
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Expanding wood energy markets in the U.S.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that it will invest up to $7 million in grants to fund projects that support the expansion of wood products and wood energy markets. This initiative, which is being managed by the U.S. Forest Service’s Wood Innovations Program, will address three main priorities: Mitigating the effects of hazardous fossil fuels while ...
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Newest BTEC Webinar Explores Federal Biomass Energy Legislation, Policy
WASHINGTON, January 14 - The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today announced the third webinar in its series of free educational webinars on key topics for the biomass thermal community. “Biomass Energy - A Policy Outlook: Programs, Legislation and the new Congress,” will be held January 27, 2011 at 1PM ET. This event is made possible with funding from the USDA Forest Service's Wood ...
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