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Frane Zilic: "The State Must Push for Timber Construction Because No Private Entity Can Do It Alone"
The construction sector—in its most traditional form—is responsible for 11% to 12% of global carbon emissions, a figure that even surpasses land-based passenger transport, warned Frane Zilic, manager of Biobío …
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Manager of Acoforag and the Harsh Forest Reality: "Violence Has Become Normalized in the Southern Macrozone"
The manager of the Association of Forestry Contractors Acoforag, René Muñoz, warned about the normalization of rural violence in the Southern Macrozone, particularly in La Araucanía, and criticized the lack …
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U.S. Investigation Results on Tariffs for Timber and Critical Minerals Could Be Known During August
The Undersecretary of International Economic Relations (Subrei), Claudia Sanhueza, stated that the investigations being conducted by the United States regarding potential tariffs on products such as critical metals and timber …
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Old Railway Sleepers Reveal Past Climate in Southern Chile
During the railway boom of the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of sleepers were produced from Nothofagus obliqua forests, a native oak species in southern Chile. The demand was so …
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Forestry Guilds Warn of Impacts from U.S. Tariffs
Leaders of the Chilean Wood Corporation (Corma) and the Guild Association of Small and Medium-Sized Wood Industries (Pymemad) expressed their concern about the impact that the increase in tariffs on …
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Total Inconsistency: 30 Years After the Central Bank Report on Native Forests
By Leonardo Araya Valdebenito, forestry engineer.In 1995, the Chilean forestry scene was shaken when the so-called Central Bank Report was made public, containing grim forecasts about the future of Chile's …
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