Following a meager turnout at last week’s Carbon TradeEx America conference in Chicago, market participants are wondering what’s in store for upcoming events–and for the voluntary carbon market as it rounds the fourth quarter.
REDD+ Partnership talks officially launched on Monday after a weekend workshop. Since then, the Partners haven’t completed a single agenda item, and a large number of donors, recipients, and stakeholders lay the blame on co-chairs Papua New Guinea and Japan. A spokesperson for the Rainforest Coalition, however, says donors are stalling to avoid paying their share.
Carbon standards define all the actions and outputs that constitute a bona fide emission reduction, and they’ve been front-and-center these past few weeks. In our bi-weekly wrap of the world’s top stories in forest carbon, we have news from China’s Panda Standard, North America’s American Carbon Registry, the UK’s Woodland Carbon Code, and the global Voluntary Carbon Standard.
Forest Trends, la Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional de los Estados Unidos de América, la Unidad de Apoyo de la Iniciativa para la Conservación en la Amazonía Andina, Translinks, el Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental de la Amazonía, la Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica, la Organización para Estudios Tropicales y la Sociedad Peruana […]
The goal of this series of public and private meetings was to explore, and advise on, opportunities for payments for ecosystem services with Peruvian governmental authorities. Specific issues included legal and policy needs, management of financing, and valuation of environmental services to protect watersheds and maintain water quality. A small private meeting–between MINAM, SPDA, Peru’s […]
Norwegian forestry and carbon offset group Green Resources last week became the first carbon offset project developer to register a reforestation project under the Voluntary Carbon Standard’s guidelines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry, and land use. This week, a second project was also verified – and plenty of others are sure to follow.
Objetivo: Facilitar el diálogo regional sobre distintas experiencias nacionales de implementación de esquemas de compensación por servicios ecosistémicos con miras a su promoción como herramienta para el manejo, conservación y restauración de los ecosistemas. Resumen: Este taller hace parte de una serie de acciones del Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador (MAE), la Red de Interesados […]
The objective of this case study is to demonstrate an evaluation method for voluntary biodiversity offsets. We focus on the Antamina mine, operated by Compañía Minera Antamina S.A. (ANTAMINA). The Antamina mine is among the world’s largest copper and zinc mines, and is located in the Andean mountains in Ancash, Peru. In 2004 the company […]
The objective of this case study is to demonstrate an evaluation method for voluntary biodiversity offsets. We focus on the Antamina mine, operated by Compañía Minera Antamina S.A. (ANTAMINA). The Antamina mine is among the world’s largest copper and zinc mines, and is located in the Andean mountains in Ancash, Peru. In 2004 the company […]
UN negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany, made progress on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), while delegates to the Katoomba Meeting in Cuiabá, Brazil, broadly endorsed the use of REDD financing to save the Amazon Rainforest. Ecosystem Marketplace examines the best coverage of both proceedings.