B.C. should use policy, not dollars, in carbon fight
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, natural gas prices were high and many major gas consumers worried that continued high prices posed serious risks to future profitability.
Benefit Sharing Mechanisms for REDD+ in Kenya : exploring the options
The last of the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) seminar series was presented by Audrey Chenevoy from Institut Superieur d’Agriculture (ISA) in France. She is working with others within the ASB Partnership for Tropical Forest Margins to further ICRAF’s work on the REDD+ Program. In the last 5 months, she has been exploring Benefit Sharing Mechanism (BSM) options for REDD+ in Kenya.
One day in April, Florentino Saludo led a team of 19 men in trekking through the forest of Sitio Canlugoc in Lunas, Maasin, Southern Leyte, with a mission in mind: to cut trees.
Country Is Hosting a Consultation and Capacity Building Workshop On
South Africa is hosting a consultation and capacity-building workshop under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+), with a focus on biodiversity safeguards.
Douglas Sheil and I launched CoFCCloT in August 2011. A Google search for CoFCCloT results in 138,000 hits just now. Not bad for an organization that doesn’t exist.
Face the Future rainforest rehabilitation project in Uganda achieves VCS registration
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS (September 22, 2011) - Soon after registration of the first tropical Improved Forest Management project in threatened Orangutan habitat in Sabah, Borneo, Face the Future has registered yet another” first” of its kind forestry project under the Verified Carbon Standard. The project is located in the Kibale National Park in Uganda, home to one of the largest Chimpanzee populations in the world.
