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The establishment of two bio-char professorships at Massey University is another important step on the path towards New Zealand becoming a low-carbon nation, Forestry Minister Jim Anderton said tod

Forestry Minister Jim Anderton today applauded the awarding of a Canadian Wood Council “Wood Advocate – Wood Champion” award to Auckland University professor Pierre Quenneville.

The government is working in partnership with the industry to unleash its potential

Wood is part of the environmental solution

Forestry will be the first sector to join the Government’s newly-announced emissions trading scheme

Wood is environmentally friendly because it's energy efficient

Wood takes less than a tenth of the energy of steel and concrete and is cheaper

Illegal logging is costing New Zealand wood producers hundreds of millions of dollars in the global marketplace.

These initiatives will lead to more wood being used

New Zealand is setting a benchmark of excellence in environmental practice

Within a year, new government-funded building projects for buildings up to four floors (including the ground floor) will have to commission designs and at least consider options for using wood or wood-based products as the main structural materials.

Changing from a tender process to one of direct grants removes uncertainty

National should be grappling seriously with climate change issues, not playing games

John Key is simply not credible when he says he can give away carbon credits and offer tax cuts

Perhaps National Leader John Key is slowly starting to realise that Climate Change is a reality

New figures highlight the need for urgent action on forestry policy

A report released today by Forestry Minister Jim Anderton says a key aspect of New Zealand’s climate change policy is to use the carbon dioxide absorbed by forests to offset increased greenhouse gas emissions from other sources.

There was never any promise to the forestry industry that carbon credits would be devolved