Gazprom Marketing & Trading, a unit of the world’s largest natural-gas producer, said its method for generating carbon credits from forestry projects was approved by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. The International Emissions Trading Association and the World Economic Forum helped develop the...
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Forest300 |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
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Africa May Become Next Big Market for Carbon Projects, Emission Group Says By Dinakar Sethuraman - //--> Aug 26, 2010 8:28 AM GMT+0200
Gerson-Lehman Group |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
In a previous article we discussed the importance of the UN REDD program as well as the obstacles to its further implementation. Recognizing the impact that the retreat of the tropical forests is having on global warming, the United Nations launched the REDD program, Reduced Emissions from...
Government of Norway |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The government of Norway has agreed to transfer an initial contribution of USD 30 million through an international financing mechanism to finance Phase I of the Indonesia-Norway partnership on REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) in Indonesia. The two sides...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Just a few weeks of actual negotiating time remain before the year-end summit in Cancun, and climate talks are a mess. Sure, most parties agree it’s a good idea to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by saving trees, but that’s about all they agree on. This all highlights the amount of risk that...
SM.COM.AU |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
New Zealand's sheep farmers are flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool and mutton. The system, begun in 2008 and the only one of its kind outside Europe, awards farmers credits that are sold to offset greenhouse gas emissions. The project may...
Farm Online Blog |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
POLITICIANS of all persuasions have had a hard time being nice to farmers in ways that don’t upset larger, more vociferous and vindictive sections of the voting public. In this campaign, they seem to have discovered the key: carbon! The hype from both major parties is that they - and only they...
Bloomberg |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
New Zealand’s sheep farmers are flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool and mutton.
Businessgreen Blog |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
You've got admire Mexico's attempts to "rescue" the UN's climate change negotiations ahead of this year's crucial summit in Cancun. After all, were the hosts of a party to admit it is not going to be much fun, you'd know to start making other arrangements.
World Resources Institute |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
A new WRI project will quantify forest degradation and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the forests of the Republic of Congo.
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of this century's most important social and environmental revolutions. This seemingly humble practice—a technology that goes back thousands of years—has the potential to help mitigate a number of entrenched...
The Jakarta Post |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Indonesia hopes to renegotiate its US$1 billion deal with Norway on reducing carbon emissions by curbing deforestation, hoping Norway will accept tree planting as an eligible part of the program. “We hope REDD+ activities could be applied in the Indonesia-Norway climate deal,” Hadi Daryanto,...
Carbon Positive |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The Australian government is proposing to allow foresters and farmers to create carbon offset credits for international sale into foreign emissions trading markets. Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched the policy on the weekend, part of campaigning ahead of a federal election on August 21.
USDA |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
I want to thank Avoided Deforestation Partners for holding this event and inviting me to join all of the distinguished speakers here today in urging the adoption of REDD plus as part of a global climate framework. We are encouraged by the progress being made here in moving REDD forward. The...
The Independent |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The world's first genuinely green energy deal is about to be sealed. In a plan which could be a blueprint for saving large tracts of the planet from exploitation, a greater value is being put on a pristine wilderness than on the oil that lies beneath.
GRIST |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
With the climate bill officially dead, there's already a trickle of "who's to blame and what they should have done differently" pieces. I expect it will soon become a flood.
Planting Empowerment |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
I think we would all agree that it is a disappointment that the US Senate didn't take up a climate bill that included a cap and trade system to finally put a price on carbon and begin reducing emissions.
The Guardian |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Call it a hot topic. A study suggesting that intentional forest blazes could significantly cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from wildfires in the Western United States has prompted a piquant scholarly quarrel. The exchange highlights the challenge forest managers may face in balancing plans to...
UN-REDD |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
The UN-REDD Programme has been active over the past few months, in convening and engaging with partners from around in the world to advance ideas and common understandings of governance issues related to REDD+.
TVNZ |
vor 14 Jahre 4 months
Foreign-owned "carbon foresters" have ambitions to turn a fifth of New Zealand sheep and beef farmland into forests and that will devastate many rural towns, the national farmers' lobby says. Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said the organisation strongly believed that farm forestry was...