Brazil leading CO2 Absorption in Planted Forests

Brazil leads... the world should follow!

What is a Tree? - A video message from Bracelpa, the Brazilian Pulp & Paper Association, to the COP15 (United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen 2009)

Maybe the time has come to stop seeing one of the best ever made approaches to sustainable forestry as a problem-maker... and start seeing it as a world-leading effort towards sustainable production and one of the most efficient man-made tree based bio-industries.

A hectare of eucalypt cultivated forests can be up to 6 times more efficient sequestering carbon than other alternatives for a given time-span. (Bracelpa: Planted Forests, Vital Allies of the Planet)

Maybe the time has come to see sustainably managed planted forests like those of Brazil, a productive use of land, as an useful aid to increase carbon uptakes... and make them be part of the solution.

Maybe the time has come to see timber crops as one of the highest yielders of current and future positive externalities within the available options for a productive use of land.

During the last 35 years the Brazilian Pulp & Paper Industry has jumped from 51 to 85% for renewable energy over total energy consumption. (Bracelpa: Planted Forests, Vital Allies of the Planet)

Maybe the time has come to start seeing the eucalypt based pulp and paper industry as a global timber-fueled bio-refinery industry able to sustainably manage the land base that yields renewable and recyclable materials we all use everyday at once that walks towards zero fossil fuel generated carbon emissions.

Maybe the time has come to see what a tree is. What a tree can give. If used wisely.

The Prince of Wales speaks at the COP15 (United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen, December 15th 2009). Video courtesy The Royal Channel.

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Eucalyptus Pulps & Papers: Fibers & Fine Fractions

Different Eucalyptus Pulps and Papers: Managing Pulp Fine Fractions

by Celso Foelkel

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Summary of Contents

• Defining Fine Fractions in Cellulosic Processes
• Anatomy of Primary and Secondary Fine Fractions in Cellulosic Processes
  
• Metodologies for Fine Fraction Measurement
  
• Contents and Properties of Fine Fractions in Eucalyptus Cellulosic Pulp
  
• Fine Fractions, Pulp Coarseness & Fiber Density
  
• Influence of Primary and Secondary Fine Fractions on Kraft Cellulosic Pulp Production
  
• Fine Fractions & Effects on Paper Manufacture and Paper Quality
  
• Paper Recycling & Fine Fraction Generation
• Fine Fraction Management in Market Pulp Mills & Paper Mills
  
• Final Considerations
• References & Recommended literature

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Obama praises Norway & Brazil's fight against deforestation

Obama Praises the Brazilian Amazon Fund

President Barack Obama arrived in Oslo early this morning on his journey to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Obama to Norway by means of a working breakfast with views towards Oslo's skyline before thanking him for and urging him three times to keep moving forward in the global fight against climate change as an investment for future world peace.

Obama at the Oslo Press Conference. Image courtesy SVT (tack guys!!)

The U.S. President acknowledged his presence in Copenhagen next week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference would be an important step for a truly global strategy in this sense.

After remembering the bond between both countries through the huge Norwegian-American community back home, Obama praised the joint initiative of the governments of Norway and Brazil to monitor and try to minimise deforestation rates in the Amazon Basin.

Obama & Stoltenberg shake hands before the visit to King Harald. Image courtesy SVT (tack guys!!)

Norway has become one of the main financial investors in the preservation of one of the largest remaining virgin forests of the world through a yearly 100 million US$ contribution to the Amazon Fund, a piece of the National Plan on Climate Change launched by Lula last year aiming to keep reducing deforestation rates. The amount of non released carbon stored by preserving the Amazonian forest with this contribution is expected to equate 10 times all Norwegian emissions.

The Brazilian approach for forest preservation via stopping deforestation is parallel with a reduction of pressure on its native forests for industrial timber procurement. Suitable areas in the South and East of the country have become part of industrial tree crop polyculture systems using mosaic silviculture designs. These involve the sustainable management of fast growth timber plantations surrounded by interlinked ecological corridors that aim to preserve the basic functions of native ecosystems within those areas scheduled for a predominant timber productive function.

Also in Eucalyptologics...

Environmentalist (mono) cultivation of environmental analphabetism

Eucalyptus paper: sustainable from our tree to your desk

Eucalyptus timber crops in Brazil 2008

Global Eucalyptus Map 2009

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