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  • Weekly Forest News, April 04

    Apr 4, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Trump’s Logging Orders: Wildfire Risk Fix or Forest Faux Pas?  In a twist no one had on their 2025 bingo card, Donald Trump’s executive orders to expand logging on federal lands may actually have some merit—at least according to forestry experts. While…
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  • This Week in Forest Finance, April 03

    Apr 3, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Rhino Conservation at Risk as U.S. Funding Freeze Stalls Reforestation and Patrols A freeze on U.S. foreign aid and conservation grants since January 2025 has triggered a funding crisis for rhino conservation programs worldwide. The International Rhino…
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  • Weekly Forest News, March 28

    Mar 28, 2025, 12:25 pm By Stewart Mior
    What 18 Years of Regeneration Tell Us About Boreal Forest Management A long-term silvicultural experiment in Quebec’s black spruce forests just dropped some serious insights—and spoiler: clearcutting might be overrated. Across six sites and five harvesting…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance March 27

    Mar 27, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    $300M for Trees: New Forests and Oji Bet Big on Plantation Forestry with Global Fund New Forests and Oji Holdings are putting nearly $300 million on the table with the launch of the Future Forest Innovations Fund, aiming to plant—or manage—70,000 hectares…
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  • Weekly Forest News March 21

    Mar 21, 2025, 12:22 pm By Stewart Mior
    B.C.’s Forest Carbon Math Isn’t Adding Up—And That’s a Problem for Reforestation British Columbia’s forests are supposed to be massive carbon sponges, but no one seems to know exactly how muchcarbon they’re storing (or worse, releasing). A…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance, March 20

    Mar 20, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Hawai‘i Carbon Smart Land Program Expands Funding for Tree Planting Projects The Hawai‘i Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission has announced a fresh wave of grants for the Carbon Smart Land Program, aimed at boosting climate resilience across…
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  • Weekly Forest News March 12

    Mar 14, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    White House Orders Major Timber Expansion, Reshaping U.S. Forestry Policy Two new executive orders are shaking up the timber industry, aiming to boost domestic production by streamlining regulations and cutting reliance on imports. The first order directs an…
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  • Weekly Forest News March 14

    Mar 14, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    White House Orders Major Timber Expansion, Reshaping U.S. Forestry Policy Two new executive orders are shaking up the timber industry, aiming to boost domestic production by streamlining regulations and cutting reliance on imports. The first order directs an…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance, March 13

    Mar 13, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Microsoft’s Green Bet: 1.5M Tonnes of Carbon Credits, Millions of Trees in India Microsoft is going big on carbon removal, committing to buy 1.5 million tonnes of carbon credits from Climate Impact Partners over the next 30 years. This deal fuels the Panna…
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  • Accountabilitree: Evertreen

    Mar 11, 2025, 12:27 pm By Stewart Mior
    Evertreen, an organization that facilitates corporate-sponsored tree planting, claims to have planted over 2 million trees worldwide. Their projects span multiple countries, aiming to combat deforestation, restore ecosystems, and support local communities.…
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  • Accountabilitree: Evertreen

    Mar 11, 2025, 12:27 pm By Stewart Mior
    Evertreen, an organization that facilitates corporate-sponsored tree planting, claims to have planted over 2 million trees worldwide. Their projects span multiple countries, aiming to combat deforestation, restore ecosystems, and support local communities.…
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  • Fact Check: How Many Trees Does the US Plant Per Year?

    Mar 10, 2025, 1:41 pm By Stewart Mior
    Claim:  The U.S. plants 2.5 billion trees per year. (The Hill) Rating:  Unverified Evidence and Analysis Joe Westerman’s claim that the U.S. plants 2.5 billion trees annually lacks strong supporting evidence and contradicts the most reliable available…
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  • Agroforestry Stores Less Carbon Than Reforestation

    Mar 9, 2025, 12:04 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by Jeremy Hance originally appeared in Mongabay. New research finds that a reforestation and agroforestry project on Indigenous land in Panama missed its carbon sequestration goal, but returned better-than-average results and had many other…
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  • COP16 Summit in Rome OKs Finance Plan, But Challenges Loom

    Mar 8, 2025, 12:06 pm By Stewart Mior
    This article by Justin Catanoso originally appeared in Mongabay. When the COP16 U.N. biodiversity summit ended without a final agreement in October 2024 in Cali, Colombia, negotiators agreed to meet in Rome, Italy, in February. There, the parties mapped a…
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  • Weekly Forest News, March 07

    Mar 7, 2025, 11:56 am By Stewart Mior
    Colombia’s Reforestation Hits 23-Year Low—Even as Deforestation Slows Colombia just pulled off a rare win—deforestation dropped to one of its lowest rates in two decades—but there’s a catch: reforestation efforts hit rock bottom, marking the worst…
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  • Weekly Forest News, March 07

    Mar 7, 2025, 11:56 am By Stewart Mior
    Colombia’s Reforestation Hits 23-Year Low—Even as Deforestation Slows Colombia just pulled off a rare win—deforestation dropped to one of its lowest rates in two decades—but there’s a catch: reforestation efforts hit rock bottom, marking the worst…
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  • This Week In Forest Finance, March 06

    Mar 6, 2025, 11:56 am By Stewart Mior
    Tree Global SA & the Africa Reforestation Green Bond: Big Trees, Bigger Impact Tree Global SA just scored a $350,000 boost from the SDG Impact Finance Initiative to cook up the Africa Reforestation Green Bond—because saving the planet isn’t cheap. Forests…
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  • Corporate Transparency Helps, But More (Than) Info Is Needed

    Mar 5, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Madlen Sobkowiak, EDHEC Business School Could corporate transparency be one of the solutions to climate change? Or, at the very least, could it be a way to hold businesses accountable for their environmental impacts? Not by itself, according to our paper,…
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  • Canadian Firms Push ESG on Social Media, but Investors Doubt It

    Mar 4, 2025, 9:28 am By Stewart Mior
    Sean Cleary, Queen's University, Ontario and Dhruv Baswal, Queen's University, Ontario Tesla founder Elon Musk made his stance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings unmistakably clear in June 2023 when he posted “ESG is the devil” on his…
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  • The Antidote to Greenwashing: Interview With Tobias Augspurger

    Mar 3, 2025, 3:51 pm By Stewart Mior
    In the spirit of transparency, we will note that the author and editor do some volunteer work for the OpenSustain.tech team. Our bias is very clear, we think. OpenSustain.tech And Other Ventures Tobias Augspurger is a passionate advocate for harnessing the…
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