Sentences with phrase «timber trade of»

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This exchange - trade fund is one of the more popular timber ETFs, with more then $ 200 million in total managed assets.

The FTSE NAREIT Equity REITs Index, which contains 157 publicly traded REITs (as of 2016) that span commercial real estate in the United States, excluding timber and infrastructure REITs.

They did, returning to inform him that Canada-U.S. trade was about even until you added «timber» and «energy» into the mix, which pushed the U.S. into a deficit of about US$ 17 billion.

You may have to sacrifice some goats to save the palilla.10 Or you may have to jeopardize a few jobs in the already declining timber industry of the Northwest (already devastated by our inane trading policy with Japan) to save an old - growth forest.

The public - private partnership aims to work with wood importers and members of the timber supply chain to educate them about new trade policies and help them avoid illegally sourced timber.

Many of the impacted species — found in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia — are protected by law, but such measures have not stopped a growing illegal timber trade.

A new illegal trade «alliance» Yesterday, in an effort to chip away at the illegal timber trade, which is a key driver of deforestation along with agricultural expansion, a coalition of businesses, paper organizations and international groups banded together to form the Forest Legality Alliance.

«This ridiculous red tape is in danger of undermining our efforts to get sustainably harvested timber on the market,» says Chris Cox of the Ecological Trading Company, a wood importer.

Governments of 50 countries last week failed to reach agreement on how to regulate world trade in timber to help conserve forests.

Though these trading posts were originally utilized for such items as gold, ivory, timber, and spices, by the late 1400s trade had expanded to include the buying and selling of human cargo in the form of African slaves.

Reforestation offers the opportunity for communities to empower themselves through the development of local economies and infrastructures — constructing homes with timber, for instance, or selling and trading food and other products that come from the land.

The system allows Timber Hill to centrally price and manage risk on a portfolio of equity derivatives traded in multiple locations around the country.

Timber Hill Securities Hong Kong Limited is incorporated and begins trading at the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

Timber Hill Europe begins trading in Norway and becomes a member of the Austrian Derivatives Exchange.

Timber Hill trades just less than 5 % (15,000 transactions) of the daily volume in listed equity derivatives worldwide.

Timber Hill begins trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

On average, more than six percent of the daily global volume of exchange - traded equity options and equity futures is now traded across the Timber Hill / IB network.

Timber Hill becomes one of the leading market makers at the DTB, claiming more than 10 % of the trading volume.

In February, Timber Hill's new computer system and network is brought online, ushering in a new era of computerized trading.

There are a wide range of commodities that are traded daily including oil, gasoline, timber, agricultural products like orange juice and coffee, and precious metals like gold and platinum.

Offering the serenity and refreshing escape of the countryside, Losby Gods Hotel dates back 300 years to the lucrative timber trade.

One historian notes that by the year 1846 Bacalar boasted «forty - three houses of stone and mortar, with flat roofs of solid and beautiful construction, three of which were two stories: rich and well - stocked warehouses, a beautiful church, a maritime custom house and a fine export trade in timber.»

Whilst previously timber would have been carried slowly on Gabare boats, the introduction of the train line shortened the process considerably, creating considerable competition for trade with the Gabare river boats.

WWF must make membership of the scheme conditional on companies following sustainable, ethical and legal practices and prohibit any company from participating if it continues to destroy natural forest, trade in illegal timber, or is involved in human rights abuses.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Source: Global Witness field investigation; Yunnan Province, China; May 2006 [6] In October 2005, in direct response to Global Witness» report «A Choice for China» the governments of both Burma and China publicly denied that any illegal timber trade took place between the two countries.

Source: Xinhua, «Yunnan Public Security Border Defense Brigade takes actions to ensure the Yunnan - Burma timber and mineral trading cooperation»; 27 March 2006 [2] Source: Global Witness field investigation; Yunnan Province, China; May 2006 [3] Source: Global Witness, «A Choice for China: Ending the destruction of Burma's northern frontier forests»; October 2005, available in English, Chinese and Burmese from http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/index.php?section=burma [4] Source: Global Witness estimates based on statistical information from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, and China Customs made available by The World Trade Atlas; February 2006 [5] Border checkpoints in all but one area along the China - Burma border visited by Global Witness investigators had been closed.

REDD + has stimulated almost every dimension of forest activity: real - time satellite tracking of global forest loss; local communities using handheld data devices; long - simmering disputes over forest ownership and use; methods for benefit sharing; nested accounting to meld project and national approaches; the role of women in forest stewardship; the place for certification and reduced impact logging; enticements of billions from donors; open discussion of illegal timber trade and corruption; public platforms for indigenous groups to command large audiences, and many more... the exponential interest in REDD + has been tremendous.

«DLH has a horrific record of financing conflict through its timber trading during Liberia's bloody civil war.

Review November 2017 exposés of illegal timber trade by Global Witness and the Center for International Environmental Law

* Koch Industries * — with business in oil and gas exploration, pipelines, refining and trading, coal and other carbon product logistics, timber and consumer paper products, commodities trading and investing, chemicals, fertilizer, ethanol, cattle and game ranching, glass, fiber optics, electronics and plenty of awkward public relations.

Cracking down on the illegal timber trade and illegal conversion of forests for large - scale agribusiness helps to mitigate climate change by reducing CO2 emissions from land use change.

In March, the transition government, which seized power during a military coup last year, passed a decree banning logging and trade in rainforest hardwoods, including rosewood, following widespread international condemnation of timber trafficking.

When illegal timber enters the U.S. market, consumers in the United States become unwitting financiers of this illicit trade.

Between 2007 and 2010 she was a policy analyst in the European Forestry Institute's (EFI) FLEGT Facility, responsible for policy analysis and strategic advice and support on governance and trade matters to the European Commission in the negotiation and implementation of FLEGT VPAs (a series of bilateral trade / aid agreements between the EU and timber - producing developing countries).

Illegal logging and global forest crime has an estimated worth of $ 30 to $ 100 billion U.S. dollars annually, comprising 10 to 30 percent of the total global timber trade.

As highlighted by the recent Global Witness report «A Conflict of Interests: The uncertain future of Burma's forests», the timber trade in Burma is unregulated, highly destructive of the environment and intertwined with corruption, illegality, and armed conflict.

«Ty Sokhun's failure to make public his familial links to the timber trade is a massive conflict of interest and is in itself reason enough to dismiss him.»

Good news and bad news coming out of the think tank Chatham House today: According to their new report, Illegal Logging and Related Trade, the amount of timber chopped down and produced illegally has fallen 22 % since 2002

The objective of the project was to construct a low energy structure within a short time period — making solid timber and timber cassettes the optimum rapid and sustainable solution, as it eliminates the requirement for wet trades onsite and therefore an accelerated programme of works was achievable.

The agreement aims «to promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests and to promote the sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests.»

In early 1995, Global Witness carried out its first investigations in Cambodia and Thailand, exposing how the illegal timber trade across the border was bankrolling the war effort of the genocidal Khmer Rouge.

With this, Australia is joining the U.S. and EU taking rigorous steps against the trade of timber logged illegally overseas.

Defended Japanese trading company in ten - week jury trial, where U.S. investors were claiming damages for monopolization, restraint of trade, and tortious interference over control of timber concession in Indonesia, argued appeal before Fifth Circuit and judgment for client affirmed