Propopulus Team A total of 73 Andalusian landowners, most of them from Granada, signed on 14th May, the founding act of the Granada Chopo Marjal Producers Association. Among the members of the group, almost 60% are small owners (between 1 and 5 hectares) and around 15% have more than 20 hectares. During the event, the…
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ProPopulus Team Technology giants Microsoft and Google are turning to wood as the base material for the construction of their new campuses, in Silicon Valley, California. With efforts to find new and more effective ways to lock up carbon, net zero committed companies are beginning to look at wood as “the new concrete” for their…
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ProPopulus Team A new digital tool to help poplar producers (developed jointly by Propopulus’ sponsor Bosques y Rios and the University of León (Spain)) was presented in the framework of the International Conference ‘Populus 360. Innovation, collaboration and challenges in the poplar sector’, held in Ponferrada last October. The application has been designed to offer…
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ProPopulus Team The Spanish company Garnica, a founding member of ProPopulus, has led a research project co-financed by the CDTI (Center for Industrial Technological Development) and the European Union (ERDF Funds), which will benefit the entire industry. This project aimed to find a solution that would allow wood to be humidified or dried after the…
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ProPopulus Team The possibilities that wood offers never cease to amaze. It is a renewable, recyclable and sustainable material that not only has many and varied industrial applications, from making furniture to building wind towers and skyscrapers, including packaging, textiles, and clean energy, but it also helps in the challenges posed by climate change through…
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ProPopulus team Spain’s blockchain project for forestry has taken a major step forward. One of the partners of ChainWood, the consortium responsible for the development, recently announced in a statement that the project, that has been carried out for over two years, piloting pine, eucalyptus, poplar and chestnut in Galicia, Asturias and Castilla y León…
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ProPopulus Team The Social Council of the University of Granada, Spain, has recently published a study on how poplar benefits bioeconomy in the province of Granada, in Andalusia, Spain, as part of the project Dialogues with Society. The Council is the University’s branch for social participation and aims at promoting the connection between the University,…
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ProPopulus Team Protecting forests from changes in land use, increasing planted forests, improving sustainable forest management and using certified wood to build high-rise buildings can help meet the challenge of cutting down carbon emissions and tackling climate change. To foster a greener building sector would also contribute to a bio-based, more sustainable economy. Just in…
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ProPopulus Team Offsetting carbon is one of the main objectives of countries that want to meet the goals set by the Paris Agreement. This is one of the reasons why plantation forests are increasing in Europe and worldwide. But as controversy around forests and ecosystem services rises in Europe, policymakers must keep their eyes set…
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ProPopulus Team The General Directorate of Natural Environment, Biodiversity and Protected Areas of the Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development Department of the Andalusian Government (Dirección General de Medio Ambiente Natural, Biodiversidad y Espacios Protegidos de la Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible de la Junta de Andalucía), has assigned a batch of…
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