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(Reuters) - Private investors may be allowed to earn carbon credits by paying poor countries to halt the destruction of tropical forests, but a U.N.

(Reuters) - Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of glob

Korea will try to successfully launch the first Asian international agency by 2013 proposed by the country, the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO) to be based in Seoul.

The Korea Forest Service (KFS) said Monday that the country will put forth its best efforts to realize its agreement with ASEAN member states last week on the establishment of AFoCO.

SAN FRANCISCO and DURBAN, South Africa, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Wildlife Works announced today the launch of CODE REDD, an emergency action campaign to save the world's wild forests using private sector financing within the Voluntary Carbon Market.

Delivering REDD+ finance has taken more preparatory work, capacity and tailoring than initially envisaged.