Financing Pulp Mills An Appraisal Of Risk Assessment And Safeguard Procedures

Author : Machteld Spek
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9789792446128

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Financing Pulp Mills: An Appraisal of Risk Assessment and Safeguard Procedures by Machteld Spek Pdf

This study analyses the risk assessment and socio-environmental safeguard procedures associated with the financing of pulp mill projects. The type and cost of the fibre source is clearly key to the economic competitiveness of any pulp mill. Nevertheless, investment institutions often carry out only limited assessment of the fibre source of the proposed mill. Although a growing number of financial institutions have adopted policies to employ social and environmental safeguard screening for investments in developing countries and transitioning economies, the scope of such screenings is in fact quite limited and they are often implemented ineffectively. [Provided by publisher]

Author : Sheldon Leader,David Ong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139504256

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Global Project Finance, Human Rights and Sustainable Development by Sheldon Leader,David Ong Pdf

Many infrastructure projects around the world are funded through the project finance method, which combines private financing with public sector backing from multilateral finance institutions such as the World Bank. This examination of the theoretical and practical implications of such funding begins with a discussion of the relationship between the financial structuring of these projects and finance, policy and legal disciplines, especially in the form of investment law, human rights and environmental law. A number of case studies are then examined to provide practical insights into the application (or otherwise) of human rights and sustainable development objectives within such projects. While these theoretical perspectives do not conclude that the project finance method detracts from the application or implementation of human rights and sustainable development objectives, they do highlight the potential for the prioritisation of investment returns at the expense of human rights and environmental protection standards.

Author : CIFOR
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CIFOR’s medium term plan 2007-2009 by CIFOR Pdf

Author : Benjamin J. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135941062

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Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing by Benjamin J. Richardson Pdf

This book is about fiduciary law’s influence on the financial economy’s environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability. Fiduciary law governs how trustees, fund managers or other custodians administer the investment portfolios owned by beneficiaries. Written for a diverse audience, not just legal scholars, the book examines in a multi-jurisdictional context an array of philosophical, institutional and economic issues that have shaped the movement for responsible investing and its legal framework. Fiduciary law has acquired greater influence in the financial economy in tandem with the extraordinary recent growth of institutional funds such as pension plans and insurance company portfolios. While the fiduciary prejudice against responsible investing has somewhat waned in recent years, owing mainly to reinterpretations of fiduciary and trust law, significant barriers remain. This book advances the notion of ‘nature’s trust’ to metaphorically signal how fiduciary responsibility should accommodate society’s dependence on long-term environmental well-being. Financial institutions, managing vast investment portfolios on behalf of millions of beneficiaries, should manage those investments with regard to the broader social interest in sustaining ecological health. Even for their own financial self-interest, investors over the long-term should benefit from maintaining nature’s capital. We should expect everyone to act in nature’s trust, from individual funds to market regulators. The ancient public trust doctrine could be refashioned for stimulating this change, and sovereign wealth funds should take the lead in pioneering best practices for environmentally responsible investing.

Author : Ole Kristian Fauchald,David Hunter
Publisher : Yearbook International Environ
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199539642

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Yearbook of International Environmental Law by Ole Kristian Fauchald,David Hunter Pdf

This yearbook contains articles from an international team of contributors. Each section of essays covers a topical subject, focusing mainly on environmental law, and the year-in-review section offers a round-up of world-wide legal developments.

Author : Benjamin J Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199715459

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Socially Responsible Investment Law by Benjamin J Richardson Pdf

Environmental harm is commonly associated with companies that extract, consume, and pollute our shared natural resources. Rarely are the 'unseen polluters,' the financiers that sponsor and profit from eco-damaging corporations, placed at the forefront of the environmental debate. By focusing on these unseen polluters, Benjamin Richardson provides a comprehensive examination of socially responsible investment (SRI), and offers a guide to possible reform. Richardson proposes that greater regulatory supervision of SRI will help ensure that the financial sector prioritizes ethically-based investments. In Socially Responsible Investment Law, he suggests that new governmental reforms should encourage companies to participate in socially responsible investments by providing a better mix of standards and incentives for SRI through measures that include redefining the fiduciary responsibilities of institutional investors to incorporate environmental concerns. By doing so, Richardson posits that corporate financiers, including banks, hedge funds, and pension plans, will become more accountable to the goals of ensuring sustainable development.

Author : David A. Raitzer
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Environmental impact analysis
ISBN : 9789791412728

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Assessing the Impact of CIFOR's Influence on Policy and Practice in the Indonesian Pulp and Paper Sector by David A. Raitzer Pdf

Methodological approach. The overall context. Chronology of events. Attribution of CIFOR's contributions. Counterfactual scenarios. Estimating effects on natural forest clearance. Valuation framework. Benefits attributable to CIFOR. Discussion of results.

Author : Mandy Haggith
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780753516317

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Paper Trails by Mandy Haggith Pdf

From the medical sheets in maternity wards to our death certificates, paper charts the course of our lives. Paradoxically, it spreads ideas and learning as well as thousands of tons of junk mail, yet our dependence on this material is damaging our planet and creating mountains of unnecessary waste. Mandy Haggith explores our society's obsession with paper, from its invention in China 2000 years ago to the millions of tonnes we now use every year. Following the paper trail around the world, Mandy discovers the human stories of those affected by the industry, from a Russian ecologist, a Finnish logger and Indonesian tribal leaders, to a Canadian publisher and a Vietnamese paper technologist. In the process, she uncovers the paper industry's dirtiest secrets and sets out simple, practical steps we can take to minimise our own personal use of 20 tonnes of paper over our lifetime.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Responsible Research
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Foresty in Asia - Issues for Responsible Investors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Quentin Beresford
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781742241937

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The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford Pdf

At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans. Its collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as was the arrest of its CEO for insider trading. Quentin Beresford illuminates for the first time the dark corners of the Gunns empire. He shows it was built on close relationships with state and federal governments, political donations and use of the law to intimidate and silence its critics. Gunns may have been single-minded in its pursuit of a pulp mill in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley, but it was embedded in an anti-democratic and corrupt system of power supported by both main parties, business and unions. Simmering opposition to Gunns and all it stood for ramped up into an environmental campaign not seen since the Franklin Dam protests. Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania’s decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all. ‘This is a tale that needed telling. It is an important case history in environmental campaigning and a must-read for anyone interested in fairness and transparency in government.’ – Geoffrey Cousins AM, businessman and president of the Australian Conservation Foundation

Author : Jürgen Bauhus,Peter van der Meer,Markku Kanninen
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781849776417

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Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests by Jürgen Bauhus,Peter van der Meer,Markku Kanninen Pdf

Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking water and other non-timber goods and services. Often they are monocultures that do not appear to invite people for recreation and other direct uses. Yet as this book clearly shows, they can play a vital role in the provision of ecosystem services, when compared to agriculture and other forms of land use or when natural forests have been degraded. This is the first book to examine explicitly the non-timber goods and services provided by plantation forests, including soil, water and biodiversity conservation, as well as carbon sequestration and the provision of local livelihoods. The authors show that, if we require a higher provision of ecosystem goods and services from both temperate and tropical plantations, new approaches to their management are required. These include policies, methods for valuing the services, the practices of small landholders, landscape approaches to optimise delivery of goods and services, and technical issues about how to achieve suitable solutions at the scale of forest stands. While providing original theoretical insights, the book also gives guidance for plantation managers, policy-makers, conservation practitioners and community advocates, who seek to promote or strengthen the multiple-use of forest plantations for improved benefits for society. Published with CIFOR

Author : Matti Palo,Erkki Lehto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048138968

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Private or Socialistic Forestry? by Matti Palo,Erkki Lehto Pdf

While deforestation continues at an alarming rate around the world, discussions on the range of underlying causes continue. The premise is that studying successful transitions from deforestation to sustainable forestry ex post in Finland can provide novel insights into how deforestation in the tropics might be reduced in the future. Our fundamental question here is why Finland succeeded to stop deforestation for a century ago and why not the same is feasible in the contemporary tropical countries? This book presents a novel integrated theory within which this case study on Finland and contemporary modeling of underlying causes of tropical deforestation are developed. Finland remains the world’s second largest net exporter of forest products, while maintaining the highest forest cover in Europe. A transition from deforestation to sustainable industrial forestry took place in Finland during the first part of the 20th century. The underlying causes of this transition are compared via our theory with deforestation in 74 contemporary tropical countries. Both appear similar and support our theory. The interaction of public policies and market institutions has appeared to be critical during this transition. The study’s findings suggest that private forest ownership with a continuous increase in the real value of forests and alleviation of poverty under non-corruptive conditions has been a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for this transition. In a parallel way public policies have also proved to be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition in this transition. The conclusion is that socialistic forestry along with corruption is artificially maintaining too low values in the tropical forests. The opportunity cost of sustainable forestry remains too high and deforestation by extensification of agriculture therefore continues. The prevailing socialistic forestry with dominating public forest ownership is by purpose maintaining administratively set low stumpage prices leading to low value of forests, wide corruption and continuous forest degradation and deforestation. An effective remedy – to raise the value of forests - is found to be within forestry.

Author : Markku Kanninen,Daniel Murdiyarso,Frances Seymour,Arild Angelsen,Sven Wunder,Laura German
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Deforestation
ISBN : 9789791412421

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Do Trees Grow on Money? The Implications of Deforestation Research for Policies to Promote REDD by Markku Kanninen,Daniel Murdiyarso,Frances Seymour,Arild Angelsen,Sven Wunder,Laura German Pdf

What do we know about deforestation?. The direct and underlying causes of deforestation and degradation. Policy options for reducing deforestation and degradation. Implications for policies and further research to support REDD.

Author : Center for International Forestry Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D028355480

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Annual Report by Center for International Forestry Research Pdf

Author : Robin N. Leslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02938289C

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The Future of Forests in Asia and the Pacific by Robin N. Leslie Pdf