Vientiane, Lao PDR. December 12, 2012. Forest Carbon, partnering with GIZ Laos through the CliPAD programme, has begun a groundbreaking jurisdictional forest carbon accounting and mapping project in the Khammouane Province of Laos this month. Forest Carbon will carry out a jurisdiction-wide, wall-to-wall REDD+ analysis, identifying potential investment opportunities for private companies interested in forest [...]
November 12, 2012 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Malaysian Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (NRE) with co-funding from The United Nations Development Programme, launched a project this month to develop sustainable mechanisms to finance REDD+ in Malaysia. The goal of the project is to facilitate private and public sector capital towards financing climate mitigation [...]
Monday, October 8, 2012 WWF and Forest Carbon are conducting a technical feasibility assessment of a new Trans-boundary REDD+ project in Central Vietnam and Southern Laos. The “Avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation in the border area of Southern Laos and Central Vietnam for the long‐term preservation of carbon sinks and biodiversity” project, referred to [...]
A recent journal article that looks into village forest rights in Indonesia, published by the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies (JAIS), features work from Forest Carbon. In 2011, Forest Carbon mapped the legal process for communities to obtain a village forest concession, which is known as hutan desa. The flow [...]
Forest Carbon employees contribute to new book entitled “Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate” that was developed at Yale University and published by Springer. Forests are critical to mitigating the effects of global climate change because they are large storehouses of carbon, but there are significant uncertainties about the actual behavior of many of [...]
The Finnish government through its Energy and Environment Partnership has awarded 180,000 Euros to an Indonesian consortium to develop a plan to create energy generation facilities that utilize waste products from small holder oil palm farmers in Riau, Indonesia. The goal of the project is to create viable energy solutions in the province and increase [...]
Orangutan Foundation have partnered with Forest Carbon to assess orangutan habitat in Central Kalimantan. To support this effort, the French based Planet Action Foundation has provided high-resolution satellite imagery as well as image and spatial analysis software that will allow the group to monitor forest cover in the Lamandau and Belantikan Hulu river watersheds in [...]
Forest Carbon has just started a consultancy with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to identify innovative private-sector REDD initiatives throughout the tropics and assess their applicability for Ghana’s Forest Investment Plan.
Forest Carbon projects are not quick and easy, and they are not cheap“, say private sector forest carbon project developers across Asia. How has the private sector engaged across the region? What have been the main challenges in different countries? What lessons have been learnt? We set about to investigate the private sector engagement & [...]
Forest carbon markets: Critical or evil? Written by Unna Chokkalingam on May 06, 2011 Link to the original article. Are carbon markets critical for reducing forest carbon emissions and mitigating climate change, or are they risky or even evil propositions? In fact what exactly are forest carbon markets? Differing perceptions, suspected motivations, a language issue… [...]
Jakarta, May 2, 2011 This week, Forest Carbon’s Scott Stanley headed to Laos to begin a feasibility study for a new project in Lao PDR with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)’s Climate Protection through Avoided Deforestation (CliPAD) Project. Forest Carbon will be undertaking the first initial assessment of putting together a new VCS [...]
Lao, May 25, 2011 Forest Carbon has begun supporting a major new independent online REDD news initiative, ForestCarbonAsia.org, started up by Dr. Unna Chokkalingam, based in Vientiane Lao PDR and S. Anuradha Vanniarachchy based in Sri Lanka. One of PT Forest Carbon Indonesia’s Directors, Gabriel Eickhoff, will contribute regular submissions to the website regarding carbon [...]
Forest Carbon’s lead technical advising and project development support to it’s client, InfiniteEARTH, has paid off. This week, The Economist magazine has featured the project in an article on the state of the Indonesian REDD regulatory system. Text from the article on The Economist, April 4th 2011 : Banyan: The Finitude of Forests AS THE [...]
By Sara Schonhardt, Eco Business, 12 January 2011 Some unlikely businesses have emerged to lead the way on conservation, and the trend appears to be catching on, noted former US vice president and environmental campaigner Al Gore at a business dialogue in Jakarta on Sunday. Timber, palm oil and pulp and paper companies, for instance, have [...]
The University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Fall ’10 Newsletter Written by : Gail Kuhnlein Awakening to the sound of gibbons howling at the rising sun in the forests of Central Kalimantan, stepping in fresh tiger scat in southern Sumatra, and working with local forest villagers who tied up logging machinery with [...]
CANCUN, MEXICO – For years, policymakers and scientists alike have spoken of the need to save tropical forests as a way of curbing climate change. By week’s end, U.N. negotiators may finally set the rules of the road for doing it. If all goes according to plan, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change will [...]
Preliminary scientific trials using LiDAR technology to calculate forest carbon stocks in REDD projects in Indonesia look promising Forest Carbon, an Indonesia-based forestry and environmental consulting firm, and Credent Technology, a Singaporean based mapping technology provider, have partnered with The Nature Conservancy on a pilot project to map forest carbon stocks in Borneo using cutting [...]
Gazprom Marketing & Trading, a unit of the world’s largest natural-gas producer, said its method for generating carbon credits from forestry projects was approved by the Voluntary Carbon Standard. The International Emissions Trading Association and the World Economic Forum helped develop the voluntary carbon standard in 2005 to verify which credits companies can use to [...]
In the role of lead consulting firm for this project, Forest Carbon advised USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia on a Regional Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation Plus (REDD-plus) assessment in Asia. Forest Carbon was responsible for assessing and creating a comprehensive report that identified the REDD-plus opportunities and needs of the Asia region [...]
Through the Berbak Carbon Initiative (BCI), the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) seeks to enhance the protection and management of large tracts of Sumatran Tiger habitat in Jambi, Sumatra. ZSL aims to achieve this through the generation of carbon credits through avoided deforestation and degradation and mitigating emissions from peat degradation and destruction. Forest Carbon [...]
Orangutan Foundation UK (OF UK) through financing from the EU has been assisting the Indonesian Government to protect peat swamp forest that provides habitat for orangutans. Forest Carbon is currently mapping the vegetation of Lamandau River watershed in Central Kalimantan and conducting a full carbon stock assessment that includes aerial and ground surveys. Forest Carbon [...]
