Anti-REDD groups lobby California’s governor. A carbon cowboy seeks spoils and gets exposed. A government-commissioned report tells England how to step up its woodland creation, while New Zealand forest owners get vocal on barriers to project development. South-South collaboration finds a new voice as Brazil shares REDD lessons with Ethiopia.
A non-profit attempts to repopulate eastern Washington with beavers while the Australian government transacts big buybacks in the Murray-Darling plan. Meanwhile, green infrastructure continues to thrive in the US. Also, Forest Trends reports on their findings from Rio on scaling up payments for watershed services.
Cities and communities around the world have embraced innovative financing mechanisms designed to ensure long-term supplies of clean drinking water by promoting good stewardship of the surrounding watershed. Now, say practitioners, it’s time to scale up – by keeping the programs simple, focused, flexible and local.
Investments in Watershed Services (IWS) represent a suite of tools that enable the protection of watersheds through sustainable finance, rewarding watershed stewards for the benefits realized downstream. This panel, moderated by Gabriel Quijandría, Vice Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources at the Peruvian Ministry of Environment (MINAM), will highlight some of the most successful […]
Organizations throughout the world are preparing for the Rio +20 Summit beginning next week and Forest Trends is no exception. During the conference, Forest Trends will be busy hosting an event that explores investing in mountain communities through watershed services and also collaborating with Google Earth Outreach on a side event concerning data collection and mapping.
Ten years ago, the city of Quito implemented a $21,000 program designed to preserve upland water supplies by getting downstream water users to pay indigenous people to act as guardians of the watershed. Today, FONAG is a multi-million-dollar program with a history of results and scores of imitators.
Ecosystem Marketplace’s 2012 State Of The Voluntary Carbon Markets Report, featuring data collected from offset suppliers around the world, is due to come out very soon. The report promises in-depth findings on the past year’s developments in REDD and the relationship between compliance and voluntary market prices, among other issues.
Norway is ratcheting up funding for UN-REDD and other bilateral efforts, but 89 out of 99 countries signed up for UN REDD+ say they aren’t up to speed on measurement, reporting and verification. Meanwhile, Tasmania and Mozambique take illegal logging into their own hands.
Ecosystem Marketplace has formally closed its collection of data for the State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2012 report.
Fresh finance is flowing into forest carbon efforts internationally, from Mexico to the Republic of Congo to Sri Lanka, and European Union member states are thinking of adding cropland, grazing land, and forest carbon emissions to their national greenhouse gas accounts. Here’s a look at the top forest carbon stories of the past month.