Is cap-and-trade a rose which by any other name would smell as sweet? Australia will be finding out shortly as a carbon tax is in the process of being unveiled for the country’s top 500 emitters. Australia’s new regulations, California’s cap-and-trade delay and Indonesia’s moratorium on clearing primary forests are just some of the stories from the incredibly busy world of forest carbon.
Indigenous people like Uganda’s Bunyoro-Kitara tend to take good care of their land – and to lose big when someone else finds natural resources on it. Payments for ecosystem services (PES) offer a way to profit from good stewardship, but only if governments keep things clean. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.
The collection of stalled and wrecked policies accumulating on the shoulder of the road to meaningful climate action are not distracting project developers and market players who appear to be staying confident with eyes fixed directly ahead.
From the formation of an international alliance of domestic legislators to push REDD policy to the lingering debate over Guyana’s REDD+ Investment Fund, there appears to be no shortage of pioneers taking to the front lines for REDD. Read all the details on these and other stories in this weeks Forest Carbon News.
Analysis and engagement with partners working on ecosystem services transactions, policies and laws over the past 10 years have demonstrated a clear need to better understand the legal and institutional frameworks that have the potential to promote or hinder the development of payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes, as well as the complex legal considerations […]
El análisis y la interacción con socios involucrados en transacciones relacionadas con servicios ambientales y políticas y leyes conexas en los últimos 10 años, han evidenciado una clara necesidad de comprender mejor los marcos jurídicos e institucionales que tienen el potencial de favorecer o entorpecer el desarrollo de regímenes de pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA), […]
Scores of carbon offset projects are on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by saving rain forests and locking carbon in trees, but their efforts won’t earn UN credits if they don’t conform to emerging standards that keep track of forests on a national scale Here’s what project developers need to know about nesting.
El Consejo Nacional para el Cambio Climático y el Mecanismo de Desarrollo Limpio (CNCCMDL) en Republica Dominicana recientemente hizo público los esfuerzos que realiza para la implementación en el país de un mecanismo que financie iniciativas de reducción de emisiones. El articulo incluye una comprehensiva lista de fondos de financiamiento internacionales. Publicado originalmente en listindiario.com. […]
What would Walt Disney’s favorite Lost Boy say about recent regulatory challenges to emissions trading? "All of this has happened before…" and will continue to confront regulators shaping and retooling carbon controls. So be prepared – follow market trends in the latest issue of V-Carbon News.