With the release of a new report by Carbon Positive this week based on a survey of more than 100 developers of Afforestation/Reforestation projects, researcher Eduard Merger uncovers new perspectives and characteristics of the supply side of the forest carbon market and the unrivalled influence that domestic and international climate policy exert on the voluntary market.
Few people have influenced the growth of ecosystem markets like New Forests founder David Brand. His career, like the industry he has helped spawn, runs the gamut from forestry to investment, and from government to non-profit to money-making.
When not raiding illegal Indonesian logging operations with the Governor of Aceh or hanging ten off the Australian coast, Dorjee Sun is cutting carbon offset deals – among them the world's largest avoided deforestation project to date. The Ecosystem Marketplace talks to one of the environmental movement's true mavericks.
For the last fifteen years, Shaun Paul has been connecting local communities to global sources of technology and funding. The Ecosystem Marketplace finds out why the co-founder of EcoLogic Development Fund thinks global environmental solutions must respond to local needs.
For years forestry carbon--paying for the carbon sequestered by trees--has been the subject of intense debate among those interested in the world's carbon markets. Critics claim these projects are all about greenwashing, naysayers say they are difficult to monitor and skeptics charge they lead to large plantations of eucalyptus. But, while the debate around forestry carbon rages, a forestry carbon project in Uganda has benefited local communities, local biodiversity and local businesses while, arguably, helping the global climate. The Ecosystem Marketplace profiles Beatrice Ahimbisibwe, one of the program's local participants.
State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2009 report
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