California's forest protocol outpaces EU's LULUCF plans
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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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Ethiopian forest project gets UN carbon creditsThe U.N. has issued carbon credits to a reforestation project in Ethiopia, the second time tree planting has received emission reductions. The project in the village of Humbo, Ethiopia, which was approved by the U.N.
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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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The Clinton Foundation Partners with Carbon Offsets To Alleviate PovertyCarbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org) today announced its partnership with the William J. Clinton Foundation, adding the Clinton Development Initiative’s (CDI) Trees of Hope project in Malawi as the fourth project to its growing portfolio of certified forestry carbon projects.
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Does cutting down tropical forest emit less carbon?To date, most estimates of the carbon emissions resulting from tropical deforestation have used data on changes in forest area and timber harvesting submitted to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Counting carbon: Measuring carbon stocks in logging concessions in Cameroon Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are measuring the carbon content of a huge tree, selectively felled by a timber company.
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Noble Provides Project 81 Carbon SequestrationNoble Mineral Exploration Inc. (the "Company" or "Noble") is pleased to provide an update, further to its press releases of August 22, 2012 and September 10, 2012, on the carbon sequestration modelling undertak
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Scientists publish consensus statement on deforestation emissionsBack in January, a group from the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts deployed a pantropical forest carbon map to estimate emissions from global deforestation and land use at 8.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (2.2 petagrams of carbon) per year from 2000 to 2010 (
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Brazil takes action against forest carbon deal in the AmazonBrazil's Attorney General Office has taken legal action against a deal signed between an Irish company and an Amazon indigenous group for the sale of carbon credits from avoided deforestation.
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Understanding carbon loss and potential interventions in Manica Understanding how land use and its changes affect forest cover and carbon stocks is fundamental to developing
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Reforestation pilot in China earns carbon credits A project that has reforested 3,000 hectares of previously barren land in China’s southwest Guangxi is issuing its first carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism.
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Bamboo: A New Approach to Carbon CreditsIt is estimated that bamboo forests and plantations cover 35 to 50 million hectares today, which translates into a significant amount of stored carbon.
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EU Sells 3.5 Million EU Carbon Permits Below Market Price
The European Union sold 3.5 million prompt carbon emission permits at a lower price than bids on the open market, signaling lower demand for the allowances.
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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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How Two Different Studies Found Consensus On Emissions From Tropical DeforestationIn order for the United Nations to achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions from tropical deforestation by 50% between now and 2020, they have to know the amount of emissions that is currently caused by destroying tropical forests.
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First-Ever, REDD+ Project in the State of Acre, Brazil to Achieve Dual VCS-CCBS Validation
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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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The other side of the climate story
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Large trees play key role in tropical forest biomass storage – study BOGOR, Indonesia (6 August, 2013) – A large-scale study has found that a handful of big trees store up to half the above-ground biomass in tropical forests, raising implicatio
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Do carbon offsets work? The role of forest management in greenhouse gas mitigationAuthor: Fried, Jeremy
Date: 2013
Source: Science Findings 155. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.
Station ID: SF-PNW-155
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Plants Help Control Carbon Sink, Keep The Earth From CookingAccording to a new study led by Princeton University, enhanced growth of the Earth’s plants during the 20th century has caused a significant slowdown of the Earth’s transition to being “red-hot.” This study, the first to specify the extent to which plants have prevented
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Woodland schemes cutting down corporate emissionsSince the launch of the Woodland Carbon Code in 2011, UK businesses have become more aware of the benefits of emissions sequestration through the investment of sustainably managed woodlands.
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Three Reasons FAO’s New Forest Numbers Don’t Add UpDeforestation has made several big headlines in recent weeks:
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