REDD+
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Want to learn more about the basics of REDD+?
All those global officials responsible for REDD-plus ►
If you want to have an introduction to REDD+, if you want to understand deforestation, why it happened and where it still happens then follow this link, we will lead you the right direction - and, don't miss "Don't demonize deforestation!"...
Lost in space because of all those specific terms when reading deforestation texts?
Glossary of Forests related Climate specific terms ►
Want to know some background info of UN-REDD programme?
UN-REDD came up with a Q&A in July 2010 ►
All global forest info at your mousecklick...
International Forest Industries |
1 week 9 hours ago
What a year it’s been for those involved in carbon markets. A raft of new legislation, a jump followed by a dramatic drop-off in carbon pricing and then a slow-down in trading. The roller coaster ride has caused plenty of angst for those foresters, emitters and investors with an interest in...
EurActive |
1 week 9 hours ago
Greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels such as palm oil, soybean and rapeseed are higher than those for fossil fuels when the effects of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) are counted, according to leaked EU data seen by EurActiv.
The default values assigned to the biofuels compare to those from...
Yomiuri |
1 week 9 hours ago
Firms that emit greenhouse gases but also want to help revitalize business in the Tohoku region following the Great East Japan Earthquake are being drawn to participate in a carbon dioxide offset trading scheme.
Named J-VER (Japan Verified Emission Reduction), the scheme is a type of carbon-offset...
Eco-Business |
1 week 8 hours ago
Some of our clients will remember that The CarbonNeutral Company started business in 1997 trading as Future Forests, and will know that our services have always recognised the central role played by ecosystems in maintaining a stable climate. Planting and protecting forests makes perfect sense...
Forest Carbon Asia |
1 week 9 hours ago
International climate change negotiations at COP17 in Durban, December 2011 saw further developments on the proposed REDD+ mechanism to reduce forest-based emissions and enhance forest carbon sinks. A binding international REDD+ agreement and a larger climate change agreement will likely be many...
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+
Rumors and Facts |
1 week 5 days ago
China has lowered the minimum price foreign companies must pay for Chinese carbon credits for the first time since 2008, but traders say the move is unlikely to have much impact as it will remain twice as high as current carbon prices. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the...
Rumors and Facts |
1 week 5 days ago
ociete Generale on Tuesday lowered its price forecasts for European Union and U.N.-backed carbon, citing an over-supply of emission units, a worsening EU economic outlook and an expansion of low-carbon energy sources. Front-year EU Allowances (EUAs) would average 8.9 euros ($11.28) a tonne in 2012...
Scientific American |
2 weeks 2 days ago
The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have "become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin," as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's...
Tags: Forest carbon, Bindung, sequestration, Senke, sinks, stocks, Vorrat, Carbon, Kohlenstoff
The Citizen |
2 weeks 4 days ago
Dar es Salaam. Funding for a carbon trading system known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) has been suspended until further negotiations between poor countries and powerful industrial nations.
Japan FS |
2 weeks 4 days ago
Tags: Forest carbon, Japan, Bindung, sequestration, Senke, sinks, stocks, Vorrat, Carbon, Kohlenstoff
Conservation International |
2 weeks 4 days ago
The purpose of this guidebook is to assist project developers in evaluating and selecting those VCS approved methodology(ies) that are best suited to account for the greenhouse gas benefits of their proposed REDD project activities. It contains a summary of VCS requirements applicable to all REDD...
ForestCarbonAsia |
5 weeks 4 days ago
At the beginning of the UN climate negotiations in Durban (COP17), FERN published a short report looking at carbon markets as a means of financing REDD. The briefing, which was signed on to by 28 organisations explains why carbon markets will not deliver for southern governments, forests and people...
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, Carbofinance, Forestfinance
Summit County Voice |
5 weeks 4 days ago
Assumptions that forest thinning treatments help sequester carbon are not grounded in science — instead, recent research shows that thinning actually releases more carbon to the atmosphere than any amount saved by successful fire prevention.
The study acknowledges that there are many valid...
ForestCarbonAsia |
5 weeks 4 days ago
Few studies have attempted to address the carbon emissions resulting from the degradation of tropical forests. Selective forest logging represents an important form of degradation of tropical forests, and may lead to future deforestation of the area by providing accessibility to these areas. This...
Carbon Neutral |
6 weeks 5 days ago
Over the years, a number of our clients that first used compliance-grade offsets, namely Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), as part of their carbon management strategies have switched to voluntary offsets, or Verified Emission Reductions (VERs). VERs have become the instrument of choice for...
Commodities Now |
6 weeks 5 days ago
UN-backed carbon offsets plunged to an all-time low Tuesday on the back of continued fears of over-supply in the market, albeit in thin trade. By 11:00 GMT, the December 2011 CER contract on
Reuters |
6 weeks 5 days ago
(Reuters) - EU carbon prices fell to their lowest ever level on Wednesday as the euro currency and equities slid on renewed fears over the bloc's debt crisis and oil prices tanked after producers promised to maintain high output.
The ICE ECX December 2011 EUA contract fell 73 cents to an all-...
MarketWatch |
6 weeks 5 days ago
ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. is pleased to announce that the company has achieved a new sales milestone, having sold more than 2 million tonnes of forest based carbon offsets to customers and clients around the world.
ForestCarbon Asia |
6 weeks 5 days ago
The following methodologies have been submitted to the VCS methodology approval process. The methodologies are posted on the VCS website for a 30-day public comment period, from 13 December 2011 through 12 January 2012.
TRUST |
6 weeks 5 days ago
(Reuters) - After decades of depending on bauxite, timber and gold for revenue, Guyana proposed five years ago that wealthy foreigners pay it to protect its tropical South American rainforests.
The idea was hailed as an innovative way to spur economic development while helping prevent destruction...
Tags: Forest carbon, Guyana, REDD+, Carbofinance, Forestfinance