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 [...]
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 [...]
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… [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Russian Carbon Trading Scheme Rescues Orangutans The gas giant Gazprom and international agencies are working to save 100,000 hectares of endangered rainforest from clearance for palm oil Russia’s state-owned energy giant has devised a carbon trading scheme that could help save orangutans in Indonesia. An agreement is close to being reached between Gazprom and a [...]
Forest Carbon’s Gabriel Eickhoff quoted in BBC story on REDD projects in Indonesia. From the article: Tucked into the Borneo rainforest, there is not much debate about climate change here. No one reads about carbon stocks in the morning paper – there isn’t one. But a few months ago, something happened on Setulang’s doorstep that [...]
Forest Carbon Managing Director, Scott Stanley, featured on NPR for his discovery of a new Orangutan Community in Borneo. From the Article: If there is paradise for monkeys, it might well be in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province, on the island of Borneo. Located in Southeast Asia, the island is home to the pig-tailed macaque, the [...]
The Prince’s Rainforests Project has featured photos taken by Forest Carbon’s Gabriel Eickhoff on its website. The pictures are from Gabe’s journeys to Kalimantan and Papua You can see Gabe’s photos and also learn more about this great organization by visiting the organization’s official website at:The Prince’s Rainforests Project.
