The fight against climate change is one of the main objectives of the Landscape Transformation Program of the Ministry of Environment of the Portuguese government. To contribute to this, it will force the owners of forest spaces to properly take care of their forest lands for at least 20 years through a contract, compensating them [...]
On February 25, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences of the University of Murcia, a talk was given on carbon emission compensation systems and CO2 markets, which was presented by Professor Federico Martinez-Carrasco, of the department of Applied Economics of the UMU. Esteban Jordán of Ingenieria del Entorno Natura (IdEN), representing the LIFE [...]
The LIFE FOREST CO2 project continues to add accessions of companies and organizations from diffuse sectors that take the initiative and decide to act against climate change. Forestales, Ingeniería y Desarrollos Agroambientales (FS IDEA) has been the last company to join this project, a company with extensive experience dedicated to offering services and technical assistance [...]
Sustainability, transition towards low-carbon economic development and social mobilization against climate change require experienced profesionals who guide society, throught communication, to an enrichment of values and positive experiences about the preservation of the environment. Highlightting the importance of their contribution with small gestures to fight climate change along with showing public and private initiatives that [...]
During past month of June, the National Center for Forest Property (Centre national de la propriété forestière – CNPF - held three informative meetings with forest owners and companies and administrations of the non regulated EU ETS sector, to present LIFE FOREST CO2 project, as well as to raise awareness about the best carbon sequestration [...]
On Friday 1st June, around 100 participants gathered at the Borshette Center in Brussels on the initiative of the European Commission, about Climate Action in the Agricultural and Forestry Sectors - Intelligent Climate Policies and Innovation through LIFE and H2020. Among them, invited by the organizers of the event, members of the CNPF went on behalf [...]
In 2016, as every two years since it began its journey in 1992, the city of Madrid hosted the Spanish National Congress of the Environment (CONAMA), which this year celebrated its 13th edition under the motto "The Answer is Green". This event, which lasted from November 28 to December 1, counted with more than 7,000 [...]
LIFE FOREST CO2 project, an European initiative led by the Department of Water, Agriculture and Environment of the Autonomous Community of Region of Murcia, with an available budget of 2.335.417 €, co-financed at 60% by the European Union with € 1,401,223, faced its first external monitoring meeting on June 28th 2016 by NEEMO EEIG-IDOM, the [...]
One of the main objectives of LIFE FOREST CO2 project is to know precisely the net accounting of CO2 emissions and removals as a result of sustainable forest management practices in Pinus halepensis and Pinus pinaster forests. In order to enhance specific knowledge, project team will study carbon stocks (aerial biomass and radicular, organic carbon [...]
We inaugurate this section of LIFE FOREST CO2 project with excellent news. The Mediterranean Regional Office of the European Forest Institute, EFIMED, included a reference to the LIFE FOREST CO2 project in its March Newsletter, reporting about the kickoff meeting carried during 26th and 27th of January in the city of Murcia (Spain). In this [...]
