Investment in UN's carbon scheme to 'dry up' as prices plungeUN carbon credits could be worth just 50 euro cents by the end of the decade due to a huge oversupply of allowances, hitting investment in its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), analysts Thomson Reuters Point Carbon warned yesterday.
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Germany Beats Fast-Start Finance Commitment But Sees Need For More ScaleDeveloped countries have been uneven at best in defining
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UN emissions credits sink to record low as demand wiltsUnited Nations Certified Emission Reductions dropped to their lowest ever as German power for 2013 fell to a record amid Europe’s continued debt crisis.
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Turning Forests into Carbon BanksFor decades, Lock Haven, Pa., has secured its municipal water supply from 5,200 acres of city-owned forest in northern Pennsylvania’s Appalachian Mountains. In the past, the city kept its water rates down by logging hemlock, hardwoods and other timber from the property.
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Costa Rica scripts a new chapter in forest carbon financeThick cloudy skies subdued the sunlight on an autumnal day in Paris. That did not stop the group of representatives from the public and private sector attending the 5th Carbon Fund Meeting of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) from making a decision that is a major milestone.
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Guyana REDD-Plus Investment Fund (GRIF) In 2009 the Governments of Guyana and Norway signed a Memorandum of Understanding and a
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The report, which aggregates data from 415 individual forest carbon projects historically, was published Thursday by Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace, a world-leading provider of news, data and analytics on environmental markets and investments in conservation.
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Peru seeks World Bank carbon market supportSAO PAULO, Oct 30 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Peru's government has requested technical and financial support from the World Bank to support its plans to study the adoption of a greenhouse gas emissions trading system, according to official documents.
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A Struggle for the Soul of the GCFExistential crises usually kick in mid-life, as one wakes and wonders: what is my purpose in life? Why am I here, and where am I going?
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Who pays? Lessons from CDM forestry projects for REDDForestry projects typically involve local communities and are challenging to implement. When farmers get involved with personal financial liabilities, the question of who bears the financial risk arises especially in cases where revenues from carbon credits do not materialise.
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Norway Pays Brazil for Deforestation Cut Amid Verification Row
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Bolivian delegation in Doha: “this is a COP of climate change not a COP of carbon trade”
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Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon marketsFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Government of UK: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+)
The world’s total forest area is just over 4 billion hectares, or 31% of total land area.
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Guyana receives more funds from Norway under LCD projectGuyana will receive US$45 million from Norway for its climate services in maintaining extremely low levels of deforestation while advancing the nation’s landmark Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
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How the Great Bear project is a leader in carbon offsets
As concepts go, carbon offsets are a simple thing: for every ton of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, a ton can be “offset” by, say, using wood waste instead of coal in a cement manufacturing plant.
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Forestry carbon cash boost could 'help drive forest REDD+ scheme' claims FRA The news that the World Bank's Forestry Carbon Fund has been boosted by an impressive $180 million in funding, has been welcomed by FRA.
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Individuals Can Buy And Trade Carbon Credits, Just Like Corporations CanOne of the little-known facts about cap-and-trade is that individuals are allowed to buy and trade carbon credits just like corporations can.
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‘Carbon credit rules for forestry projects should be made simpler’The carbon credit rules for forestry projects should be made simpler, said the director general of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) Dr VK Bahuguna while chairing the surveillance audit of ICFRE-Designated Operational Entity (DOE) in Dehradun on Monday.
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Globalisation, logging concessions, conservation organisations and local peopleA commonly held view in the developed part of the world is that conservation organisations are doing "good" when offering small-scale development activities to improve local livelihoods of people in remote forested areas, such as those in southeast Cameroon.
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The Yasuni Project: Protecting the rainforests and fighting climate changeTHE GREEN Party is excited to announce a special session “The Yasuni Project” at its spring conference; a fringe event hosted by Dr. Derek Wall in conjunction with the Ecuadorian Embassy.
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World Wildlife Fund disappointed over LCDS budget cut
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas has expressed concern that the cut to the budgetary allocation for the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) will undoubtedly negatively impact the country’s development initiatives through the revolutionary programme.
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Climate finance that makes sense to farmersAgricultural carbon projects involving smallholder farmers can take up to 16 years to generate a profit from carbon credits.
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Mitigation without adaptation can leave communities vulnerable — study BOGOR, Indonesia (27 August, 2013) — Understanding the vulnerability of forest-dependent communities is a point of departure for building more effective climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, a study has found.
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Protecting tropical rainforest: are parks or payments best?Tropical forests are home to many species as well as a store for large amounts of carbon, but they’re under threat of destruction.
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