Forests
Report
Inquiry into VicForests operations
This report looks at the important and complex areas of supply of timber to industry and compliance with regulatory standards in Victoria.
Working paper
Including forestry in an emissions trading scheme: lessons from New Zealand
This paper describes the policy changes to the New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS) since 2008 that directly affect forestry; assesses the effectiveness of the scheme; explores who is benefiting from it; and outlines issues facing forestry in the ETS moving forward.
Guide
Forestry statistics: a quick guide
Introduction This guide provides a quick overview of data sources for key statistics relating to the Forestry sector–production, trade and employment. Two primary sources of relevant statistics are released regularly. ABARES (the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences) publishes Australian Forest and Wood Products Statistics biannually, which includes a quarterly breakdown covering...
Technical report
Conservation values of state forests: assessment report
This report describes the assessment carried out by VEAC of conservation values of state forests in the four regional forest agreement areas in eastern Victoria.
Report
Permanent forest bonds: A pioneering environmental impact bond for Aotearoa New Zealand
This working paper sets out the case for a world-pioneering Permanent Forest Bond which belongs to the wider classes of green and climate-aligned bonds. The innovation is not only to fill a funding gap for budget-constrained government entities, it is to shift the environmental spending paradigm so that the New Zealand Government pays for positive...