In an uncertain market, voluntary carbon offset projects are exploring new security with political risk insurance. Projects in Cambodia and Nicaragua have successfully obtained risk insurance from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) respectively. In addition to mitigating risk, project developer EcoPlanet Bamboo also saw lowered interest rates to access capital from political risk insurance.
Un sociólogo peruano ha logrado demostrar que la conservación y el desarrollo económico no son antagónicos. Gracias a su propuesta, muchos campesinos que viven en extrema pobreza pueden conservar los recursos hídricos y, a la vez, obtener importantes ingresos. Centenares de familias han sido beneficiadas en Guatemala, Perú e Indonesia. Hoy, la propuesta de Julio […]
Australia streamlines biodiversity offsets at the state level in New South Wales, but the national Biodiversity Fund will be defunded to the tune of $231 million as a side effect of the country moving to a floating carbon price. Meanwhile, wetlands are on everyone’s mind in the Gulf of Mexico, and a new crowdfunding platform is launched.
Este abril, el gobierno ecuatoriano presentó un Acuerdo Ministerial que establece lineamientos e instrumentos de regulación para el mecanismo REDD+ en el territorio nacional. Como parte del proceso para definir la reglamentación, se estipula el desarrollo de nuevos artículos legales para su implementación. Valorando Naturaleza comparte algunas reacciones sobre la regulación propuesta y señala algunos […]
This year’s State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2013 report showed that carbon markets are funneling more and more money into projects that distribute low-carbon cookstoves. Now, a new initiative seeks to propel the adoption of these offset projects even further, with an eye toward contributing to the dissemination of two million improved cookstoves by 2017 in Southeast Asia and West Africa.
As Latin America’s economic prospects brighten, so does its concerns over how economic health will impact the environment. Several countries have begun to explore biodiversity offsetting, but Colombia is the first to implement rules and regulations specifically designed to support biodiversity offsetting. Here’s how they’re doing it.
Sissel Waage of BSR (Business of Social Responsibility) discusses reasons why ecosystem services thinking is on the rise as the number of governments investing in ecosystem services initiatives and companies incorporating their environmental impacts into existing business models continue to grow.
With US President Barack Obama’s recent pledge to REDD+ in his Climate Action Plan, the US joins a number of nations and corporations committed to using the United Nations mechanism to curb tropical deforestation and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
A new Forest Trends brief compares and contrasts case studies from two villages in Vietnam to highlight the implications of illegal logging on REDD+ and FLEGT as well as the role of community participation and land tenure agreements in forest governance. Meanwhile the Ecosystem Marketplace Carbon Program gears up for its final round of data collection in preparation for the 2013 State of the Forest Carbon Markets report.
Leaders of the mitigation banking industry believe the recent ruling on the Supreme Court case involving compensatory mitigation-Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management- will not have a negative impact on mitigation banking. Also, Forest Trends’ BBOP (Business and Biodiversity Offset Program) are hosting new webinars this month.
