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This report was created to increase transparency and answer fundamental questions about the supply of forestry-based carbon credits, such as transaction volumes, credit prices, hectares influenced and tenure rights. It outlines the aggregate numbers from our survey of 61 project developers (and in some cases, project proponents) and 34 intermediaries representing 226 projects across 40...
The Manual is designed to be used by carbon project proponents aiming for validation under the CCB Standards, or other multiple-benefit carbon standards. The NGOs involved in this initiative believe that a combination of credible social impact assessment methods and robust standards for verifying the co-benefits provides an important way of promoting positive social outcomes of land-based...
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August 10, 2010
This Forest Trends/Katoomba Group report presents an analysis of the legal and policy framework for tree and forest carbon in Ghana – key elements for REDD+. It shows how the current legal and regulatory structure for forestry and lands in Ghana provides indications and precedents for how carbon rights and benefits might be managed and distributed. But it also highlights significant...
August 3, 2010
In Our Balancing Act - The real value of ecosystems Denis Slieker and Jos van Assendelft explore the route of putting a value on ecosystems. Next to this, the book places the pressure on ecosystems in an historic perspective and presents ways to define the monetary value of ecosystems.
May 1, 2010
The report is based on the survey responses of 207 corporate participants during January and February 2010 who, according to the data, purchased at least 7.9 million carbon credits in 2009, including approximately 3.0 million offsets from forestry. When compared with 2008 volumes, the survey respondents represent approximately half the global demand for voluntary forest carbon offsets.
May 1, 2010
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provides the backdrop for carbon finance activities. Carbon finance is the generic name for the revenue streams generated by projects from the sale of their greenhouse gas emission reductions (see Figure 1) or from trading in carbon permits. It sets the basis for an innovative scheme to meet the GHG...
July 9, 2010
A new round of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) talks and meetings of the AWG-LCA (Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action) and the AWG-KP (Ad Hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocol), as well as of the two subsidiary bodies SBSTA (Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advise) and SBI (Subsidiary Body on Implementation) took place in Bonn,...
June 28, 2010
Designated Operational Entities (DOEs) are accredited independent entities responsible for ensuring that proposed projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) meet all requirements established by the CDM Executive Board operating under the Kyoto Protocol. In May 2009, Öko-Institut and WWF published a first rating of DOEs. The rating aims to provide transparent information to...
