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BVRio is on the search for The Earthshot Prize winners


Posted on 18/01/2021  by Charlotte Williams
Tagged: The Earthshot Prize, Environmental Services

The search for The Earthshot Prize winner is now on, and BVRio is honoured to have been chosen as an Official Nominator.[...]

PREVENT Selects Circular Action Hub for Large International Circular Economy Project


Posted on 17/12/2020  by BVRio Comms Team
Tagged: Circular Action Hub, PREVENT Waste Alliance, Plastic waste, Circular Credits

The Circular Action Hub has been selected by PREVENT Waste Alliance as one of eight global innovative and sustainable pilot solutions that contribute to a circular economy in low- and middle-income countries.[...]

Promoting Lesser-Known and Lesser-Used timber species from Ghana


Posted on 17/12/2020  by BVRio Comms Team
Tagged: legal timber, Ghana, Responsible Timber, Responsible Timber Exchange, Lesser-known species, FLEGT

In collaboration with Ghana Forestry Commission’s Timber Industry Development Division (TIDD), Forest Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), Ghana Timber Millers Organization (GTMO) and the Ghana Timber Association (GTA), BVRio developed a set of communication materials that include technical information about a selection of timber species that are available to the international markets.[...]

Brazilian REDD+ Alliance: Voluntary transactions can help nations overachieve their Paris Agreement targets


Posted on 08/12/2020  by Cristina Tavares de Bastos
Tagged: REDD+, Voluntary Carbon Markets, Paris Agreements, BVRio, REDD+ Alliance

Voluntary transactions have the potential to help nations not only achieve but surpass their Paris agreement targets, according to new analysis compiled by BVRio and the Brazilian REDD+ Alliance. The analysis also focuses on the positive potential the new Brazilian Programme Floresta+ has.[...]

Illegal timber trade from Brazil and the need for robust due diligence


Posted on 25/11/2020  by BVRio
Tagged: Due Diligence, illegal timber, Responsible Timber

At the 12th BRICS Summit, held via video conference on the 17th November 2020, the Brazilian government “threatened to disclose” that “Europeans have purchased illegal timber from Brazil during 2017”. Indeed, this is true. Recent analysis by BVRio concluded that a high percentage of Brazilian hardwoods, exported to EU member states and the USA in 2016-2017, had a very high risk of illegality. The study was based on BVRio’s Timber Due Diligence systems, that uses big data analysis and satellite imagery and is able to able to identify the risk of irregularities in 99% of cases.[...]

WEBINAR: LESSER KNOWN SPECIES – Utilising Ghana's Sustainable Timber Resources


Posted on 17/11/2020  by Cristina Tavares de Bastos
Tagged: Responsible Timber, Responsible Timber Exchange, Ghana, Sustainable Timber, FLEGT-VPA, Lesser-known species, Lesser-Known

While Ghana has nearly 90 species that are regularly exploited and traded as timber, its diverse forests contain many other species that can be commercialised. Many of these under-utilised species have similar and sometimes even better performance capabilities than well-known species. Others have a distinctive and unique appearance that makes them ideal for creating attractive timber products. Using a more diverse selection of species is not only a good business decision but also has the potential to improve livelihoods, protect biodiversity and promote sustainable forest management.[...]

New Forest Code approved in the Republic of Congo


Posted on 22/10/2020  by Cristina Tavares de Bastos
Tagged: republic of congo, RDC, Responsible Timber, Forest Code

With over 65% of the Republic of Congo covered by forest – an area almost the size of the United Kingdom - it is vitally important that sustainable forest management practices take place in the country, both to improve livelihoods and protect the forest. The main legislation to do this is the country’s Forest Code; in July 2020, a new version of the code received presidential approval after eight years of revision. This is an important milestone towards a more sustainable and inclusive forestry and timber sector.[...]

THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM PARTNERS WITH CIRCULAR ACTION HUB


Posted on 29/09/2020  by Cristina Tavares de Bastos
Tagged: Circular Economy, Circular Action Hub, World Economic Forum, UpLink

Thanks to this partnership, the circular economy communities of CAH and the Forum will have enhanced access to a wider pool of knowledge and new connections, that will allow them to provide clear value proposition to our communities.[...]

BVRio and FSC Peru host a webinar about COVID19 in the Chinese timber sector


Posted on 09/09/2020  by Cristina Tavares de Bastos
Tagged: Responsible Timber, Responsible Timber Exchange, COVID-19, China, FSC©, FSC Peru

BVRio and FSC Peru are working together to promote certified and legal timber from Peru to the international market. On 19 August, both organizations hosted a webinar for Peruvian timber companies. This was an informative session that included presentations from two Chinese timber companies, who shared their experience in the sector during the COVID19 pandemic.[...]

New research demonstrates climate benefits of rainforest protection and restoration


Posted on 18/08/2020  by Cristina Tavares de Bastos
Tagged: Climate Action, Climate Change, Rainforest protection, Nature-Based Solutions

Researchers from 13 institutions studied an area of tropical forest in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, that was heavily logged in the 1980s and subsequently protected from further logging or conversion to plantation agriculture. They found that areas left to regenerate naturally recovered by as much as 2.9 tonnes of aboveground carbon per hectare of forest each year. This is important because it highlights that if degraded tropical forests are protected, they can recover well naturally.[...]

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