Climate Focus is helping Kenya become one of the first developing nations in Africa to receive REDD+ financing to conserve and restore its forests.
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Timber shortage in Kenya forces merchants to import commodityA chronic timber shortage has hit Kenya forcing the country to turn to expensive imports from neighboring countries.
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Kenyan Carbon Project Earns First-Ever Voluntary REDD Credits
The US-based conservation consultancy Wildlife Works Carbon won the race to issue the world’s first offset credits for the voluntary carbon market from a project designed to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
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REDD Integrity: Addressing governance and corruption challenges
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Kenyans Soft-Launch New Carbon Exchange
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Swiss water firm taps Kenya’s carbon market
A Swiss water treatment firm is seeking a piece of Kenya’s carbon market through distribution of water purifiers to reduce the use of firewood and kerosene for water treatment in western Kenya.
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Maathai calls for action on climate change"Climate change does not affect everyone equally," says Wangari Maathai, who won her Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her work linking the environment, peace and sustainable development, while promoting democracy in Kenya. "Here in Africa, we are paying a high price for a rapidly changing climate - more droughts, food crises and it is set only to get worse. We can see how climate change is already aggravating the competition for resources and the economic stability all over this continent."
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'We either burn charcoal or die of starvation'
Veronica Erupe has lived in the village of Manyatta Chokaa, along the Isiolo-Samburu district border in northern Kenya, since 2008 when she fled drought and frequent livestock rustling at her Baragoi home, 600km away.
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Benefit Sharing Mechanisms for REDD+ in Kenya : exploring the optionsThe last of the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) seminar series was presented by Audrey Chenevoy from Institut Superieur d’Agriculture (ISA) in France. She is working with others within the ASB Partnership for Tropical Forest Margins to further ICRAF’s work on the REDD+ Program. In the last 5 months, she has been exploring Benefit Sharing Mechanism (BSM) options for REDD+ in Kenya.
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Allianz takes 10% stake in REDD developerGerman insurance giant Allianz has invested an undisclosed sum in Wildlife Works Carbon, a US-based developer of projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
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Japan approves 4 forestry CDM projects(1)
Host country: Nicaragua
Project Name: South CDM reforestation project in Nicaragua
Activities Summary: reforestation of native species to the former pasture has declined by over-harvesting (area: 813ha)
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Kenya’s emerging carbon trade to benefit from new regulations
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2009/2010 Budget mentioned that Kenya would establish a carbon trading exchange.
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Meru and Nanyuki - building a sustainable future with carbon financeRecently I travelled to the foothills of Mount Kenya to visit the Meru and Nanyuki Community Reforestation Project, so I and a client could meet the communities benefitting from carbon finance and project developer TIST and see the project first hand.
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World Bank’s New Greenhouse Gas Accounting Methodology Approved by SCS Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) has assessed the World Bank’s new methodology for estimating the emission reductions resulting from adoption of sustainable agricultural practices.
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World Bank Methodology for Soil Carbon Sequestration ApprovedAn agroforestry project financed by the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund in western Kenya presented a methodology for soil carbon sequestration through sustainable agricultural land management, which was approved by the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).
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Kenya's pastoralists reach out for carbon cashIf the promise of earning carbon credits is realised, Nixon Parnisa counts himself among hundreds of pastoralists likely to profit from a new revenue stream.
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Conservation is priceless for Kenyan forest
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Africa Wildlife Foundation faces lawsuit from indigenous community in KenyaAfrica Wildlife Foundation (AWF), the conservation nonprofit based in Washington, DC, is facing a lawsuit by Kenya’s Samburu tribe over alleged unlawful evictions.
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Kenya now hires carbon credits advisor
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Code REDD for environmental protectionUp to now a forest’s value has been measured mainly in terms of the price of its wood, but the United Nations is currently turning this premise on its head by placing a price on the forest’s capacity to absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Kenya loses $145 million to deforestation in two yearsA joint Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released Monday, November 5, 2012, has revealed that deforestation deprived Kenya’s economy of 6.6 billion shillings ($77million) in 2009 and 5.8 billion shillings ($68 million) in 2010, making it a total of $ 14 in jus
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