 Sven Ombudstvedt new chief executive of Norske Skog
Sven Ombudstvedt (43), former CFO and senior vice president of Yara International and head of corporate strategy at Norsk Hydro ASA, has been named new chief executive of Norske Skog. He will begin in January 2010. Ombudstvedt succeeds Christian Rynning-Tønnesen.
Read more >> (14/01/2010)
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 Increased importance of European forests in fighting climare change
On 24 November 2009 Mr Lars Peder Brekk, the Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Food, opened an international forest meeting of the the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) in Oslo. He said that European forests have unexploited potential, which may render climate protection even more effective than at present.
Read more >> (14/12/2009)
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 The spruce bark beetle continues destroying Swedish forests
This year about 220.000 cubic metres of forest on the root in Southern Sweden have been killed by spruce bark beetles.
Read more >> (14/12/2009)
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 Using wood for environment protection purposes
Mr Juha Marttila, Chairman of the Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK), challenges the environment protection organizations to participate in a campaign to promote the use of Finnish wood for reducing the climate change.
Read more >> (14/12/2009)
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 Swedes are prepared to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
A majority of Swedes are of the opinion that we ought to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions at the same pace as the rest of the world. About 40 % think that we should advance faster than that.
Read more >> (18/11/2009)
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 Deciduous forests on the increase in Sweden
This year's national forest inventory made by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences shows that the part of deciduous trees in Swedish forests is now the biggest since the 1920s.
Read more >> (12/10/2009)
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