Sentences with phrase «earned by planting trees»

Private sector buyers flocked to offsets earned by planting trees, saving tropical forests, or distributing clean cookstoves in the developing world, according -LSB-...]

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Users earn points toward planting virtual trees by adopting earth - friendly habits.

The Green Belt Movement was founded in 1977 by Professor Wangari Maathai, whose efforts to develop communities through tree planting earned her the 2004 Nobel Prize for Environment.

I've written quite a bit about whether markets in carbon credits earned by cutting, avoiding or absorbing such emissions — whether from avoided deforestation, tree planting, or leaving oil in the ground — are credible, sensible or doable.

A growing minority, however, favored an A / R (Afforestation / Reforestation) strategy, which would let them earn carbon credits by planting trees on land that hadn't been forest for a long time — if ever.