Siempre líder en el desarrollo de compensaciones de carbono forestal, el recientemente publicado reporte anual de Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace sobre el Estado de los Mercados de Carbono Forestal 2013, Cubriendo Nuevos Suelos, reveló que en América Latina, este mercado ha sufrido en torno a temas de falta de claridad de tenencia de tierra, políticas […]
Key findings from Ecosystem Marketplace’s State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013 report, which was published last week, includes market growth by 9% while the global average price for forestry offsets decreased. However, it was still higher than prices paid by voluntary buyers across all offset project types. The report tracked forest carbon management over a land area larger than Ecuador.
28 October 2013 | The American Tea Party hates Obamacare. They hate it with a visceral passion because it’s a government program that may – just may – succeed where the private sector failed. Such a success would invalidate basic Tea Party tenets, so they fight it with everything they have: a few rational points […]
Ecosystem Marketplace’s annual State of the Forest Carbon Markets report is due out November 6 and with it the latest findings on forest carbon projects’ structure, standards and finance. Focus points include the changing dynamics of forest finance and global market activity. Join Ecosystem Marketplace in London for a presentation on these findings. RSVP today!
The past month saw movement in the green infrastructure space with an assessment on green infrastructure valuation tools and a $50 million fund slated to implement natural infrastructure upgrades in Chicago. Also this month, two papers from Forest Trends offering thoughts on the social impact assessment of investments in watershed services programs.
A Peruvian sociologist dedicated to poverty alleviation has helped implement a version of payments for watershed services projects in impoverished nations like Guatemala, Peru and Indonesia with the help of WWF. The initiatives have led to a host of benefits for the local populations and ecosystems and now have the Chinese government as well as other nations interested in the model.
The Governor’s Climate & Forests Task Force (GCF) just gained three new members from Peru. But while membership may improve REDD+ development in the South, it does not mean it will be easy finding a buyer in the North. There are growing doubts that California, a GCF member, will accept REDD+ credits into its cap-and-trade program. A bill introduced in the California legislature earlier this year that sought to ban international offsets indicates reservations about REDD remain.
3 October 2013 | WASHINGTON, D.C. | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a $13 million grant to Forest Trends and its Forest-Based Livelihoods Consortium to strengthen the role of indigenous and historically marginalized forest communities in combatting climate change. The program, known as “Accelerating Inclusion and Mitigating Emissions” (AIME), seeks […]
Cada segundo existe mayor certeza de la responsabilidad que tiene el hombre en el cambio climático y más evidencias del efecto irreversible en la vida de todos los seres que habitamos la Tierra. El quinto informe del Panel Intergubernamental de Naciones Unidas para el Cambio Climático (IPCC), confirma las causas, los impactos y los escenarios […]
El Peru Carbon Fund (PCF) desarrolló el año pasado un estándar específico para carbono forestal para crear una alternativa casera a los estándares internacionales. Así mismo, Costa Rica oficialmente lanzó su propio mercado voluntario de carbono nacional a principios de septiembre de este año. En Brazil, la reciente transacción REDD+ entre el gigante brasileño de […]