Tuesday, April 12, 2011

This Week in Forest Carbon: Leaping Forward!...Or Not


Over the past two weeks in forest carbon news Africa and China made big leaps, California assumed a holding pattern, Indonesia is (still) debating internally whether and how to move, and a handful of major international policy and finance meetings continue rolling in through Southeast Asia.

In Kenya, the African Carbon Exchange had a soft launch, showing off the new trading platform to reporters. In China, the Panda Standard is pulling back the curtain on a growing domestic appetite for carbon offsets and trading with the first contracted sales from a bamboo reforestation project.

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