Research centre
ABRAF statistical report for 2010
Click here to see the reportBrazil economic data
Click here to see the reportAssociation of Brazilian Planted Forestry (ABRAF) Statistical Data, 2009
http://www.abraflor.org.br/estatisticas/ABRAF09-Errata_EN.pdf
Association of Brazilian Planted Forestry (ABRAF) Statistical Data, 2008
http://www.abraflor.org.br/estatisticas/ABRAF08-EN.pdf
United Nations Economic Commission - Forest Products Annual Report
http://timber.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/publications/Final_FPAMR2009.pdf
Page 4. "What the statistics above fail to show is the boom in wood energy production and consumption. This is indeed an intrinsic factor in the ongoing structural change in the forest sector."
Page 6. "Driven by government policies for environmental reasons and energy security, wood energy is the one sector best surviving the economic downturn"
Page 8."The wood energy sector seems to have been immune to the global economic crisis. Demand for renewable energy sources, including wood biomass, continues to grow steadily due to Governments' incentive policies fostering climate change mitigation efforts and energy security."
Brazilian Government - Green steel for the Brazilian steel industry
http://www.cop15brasil.gov.br/en-US/?page=noticias/green-steel-for-the-brazilian-steel-industry
"The proposal presented by the Ministry of Environment aims to produce the "green steel", which uses charcoal from afforested areas, instead of coal, to produce the pig iron (steel with impurity). As a result of the Brazilian proposal, the iron and steel industries will commit to use only charcoal in their high temperature furnaces."
Inter American Development Bank - Forest Investment Attractiveness Index
http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=975603
Currency analysis
Click here to see the reportFuture for iron
Click here to see the reportRail links and Cargill, Bunge, and Galvani in comparison to the sites under management
Click here to see the reportOverview - Brazilian Forestry Sector [Prof.Dr.Fernando Seixas]
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