The Brazilian state of Acre has implemented a comprehensive legal framework to support compensation and payments for ecosystem services, and indigenous groups are among the first to begin implementing it. Here’s a look at how the program is being rolled out.
For REDD+ and forest carbon initiatives to work, it is important to understand the applicable legal framework in any given host country and locality in order to gain clarity about issues of ownership, authorization, benefit-distribution, and other practical matters. This article outlines the legal framework for forest carbon in Peru, with a particular focus on […]
con conservación, manejo sostenible de los bosques, y el aumento de carbono en los bosques) es muy importante entender el marco jurídico aplicable a fin de tener claridad sobre las cuestiones de propiedad, autorización, distribución de beneficios y otros asuntos prácticos. Este artículo describe el ordenamiento legal para el carbono forestal en el Perú, con […]
With forest carbon projects continuing to expand in Latin America and French-speaking Africa, the Ecosystem Marketplace team is excited to announce the translation of the State of the Forest Carbon report into Spanish and French. Details on this and other news from the world of Forest Carbon inside.
Negotiations remain deadlocked in Durban, but a coalition of rainforest people are moving forward with plans to build up capacity for REDD, and they’ve engaged the financial strength of the Inter-American Development Bank and the know-how of Yale University to make it happen. Here’s the latest from Durban.
Cash-strapped countries hope to earn carbon credits for saving their rainforests, but many fear their gains will be wiped out by the high cost of documenting the carbon they capture in trees. Ghana hopes to change that by blending satellite technology with ground-truthing in a way that they say is both cheap and effective.
At the Ecosystem Marketplace, we’re finding ourselves looking south and for good reason: as work continues on a REDD+ framework, we’re eagerly waiting to see how biodiversity protection might fit into a large-scale forest payments program in developing countries. Read this week’s MitMail for details on this and more.
Forest Carbon Portal and Ecosystem Marketplace are gearing up for COP17 – but there is plenty of news to keep us occupied until then. The UNFCC solicited views on the implications of a policy change around A/R CDM project activities. And biofuels were under scrutiny in two reports. Read these articles and more inside this week’s Forest Carbon News.
August is normally a pretty slow news month, but we’re seeing lots of interesting projects these days. Like the Forest Stewardship Council piloting ecosystem service management indicators in their certification. And landowners recieving $100 million in conservation easements for 24,000 acres of Florida wetlands. Plus, the Ecosystem Marketplace and Mission Markets webinar is now available for streaming.
Try as they might, carbon offset suppliers and infrastructure providers will be ever-challenged by carbon controversies. So the market continues to band together to make Best Practice… well, better. In this issue (our biggest yet!) we bring you news of market efforts to preempt – or counterattack – assaults to the market’s claims to legitimacy.