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ForestFinance sets up sustainable forestry training in Vietnam
May 7
A training institute in sustainable and certified carbon forestry is being set up by Germany's ForestFinance in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province.
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Forest tCER issuance the first in a 2012 rush
Apr 20
The first ever issuance of UN CDM forestry carbon credits took place this week, a move that will be the first in string of such issuances between now and the end of 2012.
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Investors sought for landmark African REDD project
Mar 19
South Pole Carbon is seeking upfront investment to help finance one of the world’s largest REDD projects to date, covering over one million hectares in Zimbabwe.
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EU move to bring forest carbon in from the cold
Mar 15
There is good news for forest carbon sector in this week’s EU move to include land-use changes in greenhouse emissions accounting rules.
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REDD+ Partnership focuses on financing
Mar 8
Financing global REDD+ , streamlining bureaucracy, improving communications and ensuring benefits spread to all stakeholders were the key challenges identified at a two-day meeting of the REDD+ Partnership in London.
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Positive regional signs for REDD+ and forest carbon
Forest carbon project developers and other sector participants looking for market opportunities eye promising domestic and regional carbon trading developments.
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New fund for California forest offsets
Feb 17
Sustainable forestry investment manager New Forests  launches a fund to generate forestry offset credits for sale into the California emissions trading scheme.
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Indonesian moratorium gets cautious thumbs up
The partial moratorium on forest clearing is a promising step towards cutting carbon emissions, a CIFOR report says.
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New tool promotes forest offsets to consumers
Feb 1
Canadian Reforestation project developer Taking Root has come up with a new online tool to help its offset buyers explain and promote their offsetting commitment to their own customers.
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New deforestation measure shows global fall
Jan 31
A new information tool could prove a valuable weapon in the fight to rein in global deforestation.
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Texas drought holds forest climate warning
Jan 14
Up to 500 million dead trees in the Texas drought shows what we might expect in a warming world of increasingly extreme weather events - and underscores the vital importance of forests in the fight to combat climate change.
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Agriculture doesn’t have to be at forest expense: Amazon study
Jan 12
Results from a Brazil study show it is possible reduce deforestation and meet the demands of agricultural expansion in front-line tropical forest countries.
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Durban leaves big REDD+ questions hanging
Dec 21
COP17 has left the forest carbon sector, hoping for significant progress towards an operational global REDD+ mechanism in coming years, with mixed results from the climate talks winding up in Durban earlier this month.
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SFM could save 1.2bn tCO2 annually in the tropics
Dec 14
Switching from conventional to reduced-impact logging could save up to 1.2bn tonnes of carbon emissions a year in tropical forest countries - while still producing wood for commercial consumption.
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REDD+ text points to private sector finance
Dec 12
The use of market mechanisms, such as carbon offsets and forest bonds, in the global REDD+ system has been recognised in text adopted at COP17 in Durban.
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Analysis: UN climate meeting moves on global treaty
Dec 12
UN climate negotiators have reached a deal over the weekend on future climate action that breaks a stalemate preventing agreement over the past five years - bringing the big emitters, US, China and India, into a legally binding global agreement to cut emissions.
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Australia passes carbon tax, ignites market
Nov 11
Carbon pricing laws have cleared their last hurdle in Australia to pave the way for a fixed carbon price of $A23/tonne, and eligibility for forest and farming offsets...
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Wangari Maathai
Sep 27
It is with great sadness that the family of Wangari Maathai announces her passing away on 25th September, 2011, at the Nairobi Hospital...
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