Climate change aid bitter-sweet for Guyana says president
Caribbean Net News | 1 August 2008
GUYANA: Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo says he is pleased that Guyana is among 14 countries selected for financial aid for combating tropical deforestation and climate change from an initial US$82 million partnership. Guyana will receive the funding from the Forest Carbon Partnership [...]
Archive for August, 2008
News: Guyana President wants to change FCPF funding mechanism
Posted in carbon trading, caribbean, funding, world bank on 3 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News: Indonesia continues tree-planting to absorb more carbon
Posted in asia, carbon trading on 3 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
RI resumes tree-planting drive to absorb more carbon
Antara News | 25 July 2008
INDONESIA: Indonesia will continue its tree planting drive in order to recover its damaged forests, re-green its denuded land areas and help reduce global warming by providing homes for billions of tons of carbon sink. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono –who launched a nation-wide [...]
News: New proposal for compensation from the Terrestrial Carbon Group
Posted in carbon trading, incentives, recent research on 3 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat
MongaBay | 24 July 2008
BRAZIL: Deforestation and forest degradation account for around a fifth of global carbon emissions from human activities, but new policy measures are focusing reducing such emissions as a cost-effective way to fight global warming. While the concept of [...]
