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Market Analysis
Investors and buyers have funneled record amounts of capital into forestry projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by conserving forests and capturing carbon in trees, according to a global survey of carbon market participants published on Thursday by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace.
Market Analysis
Bureaucratic machinations on the part of Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry have knocked the wind out of a pioneering forest carbon project that had become one of the first to attract big-league financing, lured in part by the promise of a profitable carbon market. Many are now left wondering about the future of REDD and its risky business.
Project Development
Mexico’s Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve links more than 260 small-scale farmers in a project that helps them earn carbon income for planting trees. It’s the kind of project that addresses the needs of poor people around the world, and last month it was validated under two leading standards. But can that success be replicated?
