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14th December 2011
Thesis on C02-emission trading
Our manager Jacqueline
Jakob-Gallmann has completed her
thesis on CO2-emission trading
which she wrote in her free time.
The thesis with the title “Regulatory Issues in the
Carbon Market – The Linkage of the Emission Trading
Scheme of Switzerland with the Emission Trading
Scheme of the European Union“ was rewarded “magna
cum laude” by the Faculty of Law and published on 5
December 2011 as volume 127 in the series of
publications by the Europe Institute of the
University of Zurich. If you are interested to learn
more about CO2 emission trading, please contact
Jacqueline Jakob-Gallmann, who will be happy to send
you a copy in exchange for a contribution fee.
15th March,
2011
FSC-Recertification
Our plantations have successfully
passed the yearly control and been recertified
by Forest Stewardship council (FSC).
FSC-label (PDF, 24 KB)
11th
November 2010
ecoLife, the Swiss Magazine for
Sustainability, has published an article on The
Tree Partner Company (ecoLife 5/10)
The article presents Forests For Friends and The
Tree Partner Company and their business. You can read more about it here:
ecological wood-plantations in Panama
(German only, PDF, 1,58 MB)
Portrait of Carol
Franklin in Context, the magazine for
professional business careers in Switzerland
You can read
more about her here:
Panama is so beautiful (German only, PDF,
888 KB)
22nd July 2010
„To protect tropical rain forests
completely would be the best thing we could do
for the climate and biodiversity - but it is
unrealistic. A combination of protected areas
and sustainable forestry, however, may be
successful.“ (Lukas Denzler, „The
Fate of the Tropical Rain Forests“, NZZ 21st
July 2010, German only)
Tropical rain forests are disappearing despite
the fact that their significance is widely known
and efforts to protect them have been
intensified since the Convention to Protect the
Climate and Biodiversity in 1992. The scientist
and author, Lukas Denzler, shows in an
interesting article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
of 21st July 2010 that the
sustainable, FSC-certified timber production is
an effective, long-term protection of the
rainforests. The benefits of sustainable
management lie in minimally intrusive
interventions that harm the biodiversity as
little as possible and in the preservation of
the managed forests as the habitat of endangered
animal and plant species. The main reasons for
the lack of resonance to the sustainable
management lie in the fact that global market
prices for certified wood are currently too low
and governmental institutions in tropical areas
are too weak to enforce sustainable management.
We should like to thank Mr Denzler for this
interesting article and are glad that we can
contribute to the protection of the rainforest
with our FSC-certified hardwood plantations –
even if we realise that it is but a drop in the
ocean.
16th December 2009
Our plantations have been certified by
the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) valid until
November 2014. (FSC-certificate
(PDF, KB 266))
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