Approved by the State Forestry Administration (SFA), China’s pilot forestry carbon sequestration transaction officially kicked off on November 1st 2011 in Yiwu City of Zhejiang Province.
REDD+
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All those global officials responsible for REDD-plus ►
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CHRON Blogs |
vor 12 Jahre 4 months
Let’s see if an intriguing new paper in Science, released this afternoon, can break through your somnolent Turkey Day afternoon. Led by Oregon climate scientist Andreas Schmittner the paper suggests the rate of warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less than the most dire...
vor 12 Jahre 4 months
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
CIFOR |
vor 12 Jahre 4 months
The decision to finance Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, or REDD+, through the carbon market is the biggest factor that will determine the success of the global scheme that aims to slow the rate of climate change, said an expert.
Climate Connect |
vor 12 Jahre 4 months
VITOL, the world's leading energy trading firm has signed a landmark agreement to forward-purchase 7 million CERs to be generated from the first-ever CDM project and Program of Activity in Burundi. The deal represents an estimated value of €45 million over 7 years based on current market price....
Business Daily Africa |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2009/2010 Budget mentioned that Kenya would establish a carbon trading exchange. The ministry has since prepared a detailed draft National Policy on Carbon Finance and Emission Trading to guide the setting up of a legal, regulatory, and institutional...
Welsh Icons |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
The Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, John Griffiths, last week (3 November) visited the first woodland in Wales that allows companies to measure how much harmful carbon dioxide they are capturing from the atmosphere.
VOXY |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
National Party promises to adopt some of the recommendations made by the panel that reviewed the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) have been welcomed by forest owners. But they say much more policy work is needed if forestry is to achieve its potential for New Zealand.
Environmental Research Web |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
While logging is on the increase in Romania, it has not yet reached the same levels as during socialist rule, and Romanian forests remain a carbon sink. That’s according to researchers from the US, Germany, Italy and Romania who reported their work in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).
Eureka Alert |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A recent report provides new ideas regarding carbon and energy benefits forests and forest products provide. The report, Managing Forests Because Carbon Matters: Integrating Energy, Products, and Land Management Policy, summarizes and analyzes the most recent science regarding...
ForestCarbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
As more and more airlines, travel-related companies and websites offer carbon offsets to neutralize the impact of our day-to-day activities on the climate, people are faced with the seemingly daunting task of figuring out what offset projects are doing the most to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Biomass Magazine |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
A new study with multiple co-authors, including researchers from the U.S. Forest Service, found that energy produced from forest biomass merely returns recently absorbed carbon to the atmosphere, and essentially results in no net release of carbon, provided overall forest inventories are stable or...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
While a number of researchers and organizations in the US and internationally have highlighted the potential impacts of mitigation efforts on tenure, there remains minimal information and best practice on how to practically address these issues at the field level. Emerging interventions to reduce...
Terra Global |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 03, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Terra Global Investment Management secures approval for up to $40 million of financing for the world's first globally diverse community-based REDD and land-use carbon fund. The Terra Bella Fund's investment strategy is to provide project finance...
Forest Carbon Asia |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
Japan has exemplary carbon credentials. It is amongst the most energy and carbon efficient economies in the world, and one of its most beautiful cities gave its name to the UN’s Kyoto Protocol. Despite extraordinarily difficult economic and political circumstances, Japan is quietly forging ahead...
REDD-Net |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
One of the key questions that has arisen in the context of the REDD+ debate surrounds which actors have the right to exploit the benefits of GHG emissions reductions and removals in REDD+, and the associated rights to international payments. Because carbon is stored in trees and land, in many cases...
CDM in Africa |
vor 12 Jahre 5 months
Japan’s Environment Ministry said on Thursday that it has adopted 29 carbon projects under a bilateral offset mechanism, as part of nation’s efforts to achieve its climate goal to cut emissions. The projects were selected from among 77 proposals made between April 28 and May 26 and cover such...
MAFF - Japan |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
(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) Absorption predicted CO2: tons CO2 / 8,000 (2) Host country: India Project Name: Improvement...
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Environmental Finance |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
A surge in activity around projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) has helped boost the value of the forest carbon markets – despite lingering uncertainty about their future, according to a survey.
AIPPNET |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
Ecuador’s participation in the global carbon market has generated complications in indigenous peoples and Afro-Ecuadorian communities, which have not only seen cutbacks in their rights to use land for ancestral activities, but whose organizations have also undergone fracturing due to the government...