The New Zealand Government has the country on the fast track to carbon neutrality – seemingly at any cost. But in this special report, Bill Dyck says modern climate change science confi rms there should never have been a Kyoto Protocol.

In a ‘first’ for the Australian engineered wood products industry, Big River Timbers (BRT) at Grafton in northern New South Wales has achieved chain-of-custody (CoC) certification under the Australian Forest Certification Scheme for its range of construction, manufacturing, domestic flooring and decorative plywood products.

An Australian industry plan to divert 65% of wood materials from landfills could double post-consumer recovery to 1 million tonnes a year by 2017, as Jim Bowden reports.

This concludes our special report on the impressive achievements of the Brazilian plantation forestry industry (part 1, issue 77), by regional expert Robert Donnelly.