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Howden, the global insurance intermediary group, today announces the placement of the first Carbon Credits Warranty and Indemnity (W&I) insurance policy. The W&I policy provided insurance cover on the sale of carbon credits for the reafforestation project of...

Forestry is not an industry that tends to move quickly. Trees need years to grow, even in tropical climates. But there are clear trends supporting the worldwide growth of commercial forestry. One factor is the rising consumer demand for timber products. Wood is...

March 4 - The idea that companies can offset their emissions by purchasing credits from schemes that remove carbon from the atmosphere, or avoid emissions in the first place, has never been universally welcomed. Critics fear that carbon credits merely serve as a...

The annual event a huge celebration of the outdoor environment, those that work with trees (arborists), and recognition of a hugely important global industry. Related story: Final planting of trees marks completion of Myerscough’s King’s Drive The day featured a...

The Fire Prevention and Wildfire Plan for Mere Plantations in the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve this dry season has been discussed and agreed with personnel of Ghana’s National Fire Service (GNFS) and Ghana Forestry Commission (GFC). Mere have engaged with GNFS...

Mere Plantations Limited (“Mere”) are proud to have achieved full certification of its plantation sites, under the Cercarbono Certified Carbon Standard. Mere’s carbon offering is one of the single biggest tropical hardwood reforestation projects globally, achieved...

The UK-Ghana Chamber of Commerce (UKGCC), a member-based trade association that promotes trade between Ghana and the United Kingdom, has celebrated its member companies in grand style at its 2nd End of Year Gala Dinner and Awards to celebrate the resilience and...

Following the hugely successful inaugural event in 2022 we are delighted to see the return of the Rose Road Association mass swim event at this year’s Southampton International Boat Show (Sunday 17 September). The event offers a rare opportunity to swim around one...

Myerscough staff have been in Ghana to train locals in land-based skills including chainsaw operation and tractor driving. James Willoughby and Steve Slater from Myerscough’s main Preston campus, along with Steve Williams, arboriculture tutor from our Cumbria...

My name is Salisu Fuseini. I have been working for Mere Plantations for a little over 8 years now. My job is Patrol Team Leader. I love going to work, every day is different. We have our basic functions that need to be performed each day but there is always...

The Treasury has announced that large organisations and those financial organisations which have holdings within them are likely to be required to report the risks which they directly or (via their holdings) indirectly face at the hands of climate...

CARBON OFFSETTING IN AVIATION:  THE SIZE OF THE TASK   Introduction   I have recently blogged on the ability and, indeed, the necessity of the aviation industry to engage in carbon offsetting in order to try to reach carbon nett neutrality by 2050. I will assume...

Name: Atu Josephine Oyinteko Age: 25 years Place of Birth: Kyebi/ Eastern Region. Education: SHS – completed 2013 Marital Status: Single. MONDAY 20TH JULY 2020 Performed the daily vehicle checks by checking engine and hydraulic oil levels, water, tyres, fluids,...

Hi, my name is Michael Amponsah. I am 30 years old, I come from Mallam, a district of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. I now live in Abofour, a small town on the edge of the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve. I went to school in Accra at the New Life School. That...

Introduction   We should draw a clear distinction at the outset between two separate, albeit related, concepts.   As I set out in my last series of blogs, one method of ensuring that a nation’s carbon emissions reduce over time is by constructing a ‘cap...

Let us now return to our main narrative. Kyoto set emissions targets until 2020 but long before that it became clear that even the systems set up under Kyoto would be insufficient to bring about the required level of carbon change. Zahar analyses (convincingly to...

There were several problems with Rio. First, it set no binding targets; second, it left the provision of funding ad hoc; third it did not really consider how private capital should be utilised for carbon mitigation and fourth, it left the majority of the world...

In this series of three linked initial blogs, I want to show you that however large the global figures for the production of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) generally and CO2 particularly may seem, climate change is a problem which can be broken down into manageable chunks,...

Mere Plantations, a UK company, established in January 2007 to reforest 10,000 Acres of UNFCCC classified degraded forest land within the Afram Headwaters Forest Reserve in Ghana, are the latest member to the UK Timber Trade Federation. Mere are one of largest...

My week as a Plantation Manager. Thomas Agyekum, everyone calls me Agyekum.   I am 53 years old and have been a professional forester all my adult life. The forest is where I feel most at home. I have 4 children who all live with me in Abofour. Originally, I...

My name is Salisu Fuseini. I have been working for Mere Plantations for a little over 8 years now. My job is Patrol Team Leader. I love going to work, every day is different. We have our basic functions that need to be performed each day but there is always...