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The Right Tree in the Right Place

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Virgin Media partners with VEON to plant 50,000 trees

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Broadband, cable and television group Virgin Media has started the planting of over 50,000 trees, which it said will be completed early next year. It has partnered with forest management experts VEON to help boost national tree-planting and support the fight against climate change. Over 50,000 native broadleaf trees will be planted, creating new native woodlands in … Read more

Minister Hackett welcomes Virgin Media’s renewed Low Carbon commitment

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Minister Hackett welcomes Virgin Media’s renewed Low Carbon commitment as group announces Tree Planting Partnership with VEON Forestry

From Broadband to Broadleaf – Virgin Media’s new initiative will increase native tree cover and benefit native wildlife, in addition to ongoing wider climate action measures.

Friday, 11th December, 2020 – Ireland’s leading broadband, cable and television group Virgin Media has today made a further major commitment to climate action by starting the planting of over 50,000 trees which will be completed early next year.

Virgin Media has partnered with forest management experts VEON to help boost national tree-planting and support the fight against climate change.   Local communities, farmers and the environment will benefit from Virgin Media’s native tree planting initiative supporting sustainable forest planting.

This is part of a much bigger climate action programme in which Virgin Media has committed to achieving the Low Carbon Pledge with Business in the Community Ireland, aiming for a further 50% reduction in Virgin’s carbon footprint by 2030.  Virgin Media Ireland has already achieved a 23% reduction in carbon emissions since 2017.

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Massive ad hoc wood removals dominate Forest Products Markets in 2019 and 2020

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(Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) As governments worldwide impose lockdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus, many industries are expected to suffer the consequences. The forest sector is no exception, and this comes after couple of particularly tough years marked by a rise in pest infestations, wildfires and droughts. … Read more

Ireland’s National Forestry Accounting Plan 2021 – 2025

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Ireland’s forests have removed (sequestered) an average of 4.3 Mt of Carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2 eq.) per year from the atmosphere over the period 2007 to 2017. These estimates include HWP removals and emissions from fires and deforestation. The trends in forest GHG removals are related to the level of annual harvest, tree mortality, extent … Read more

Veon and Simosol announce international Collaboration

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Veon has announced today 2nd September 2020 that it has entered into collaboration with Simosol, the Finnish based global leader in providing solutions for optimized forestry, dynamic forest carbon modelling, and forest data acquisition. The collaboration involves the deployment of Simosol’s forest management planning software IPTIM across a range of Veon’s institutional clients’ managed forest … Read more

A beautiful Veon commercial forest in Leitrim complete with birdsong providing the natural soundtrack

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Veon welcomes Microsoft’s pledge to become “Carbon Negative”

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Veon welcomes Microsoft’s announcement that it aims to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits by 2030 and hopes to have removed enough carbon to account for all the direct emissions the company has ever made by 2050. “This is an audacious, holistic and positive approach and is to be commended as Microsoft … Read more

Native Irish Red Squirrel is making a comeback in Irish forestry

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The growth of Sitka spruce plantations in Ireland over the past two decades may help explain why there has been a resurgence in the number of native red squirrel populations. The increase in the native pine marten population may also be a contributing factor as the invasive American grey squirrels appear to be a more … Read more