Sentences with phrase «forest carbon standard»

«ACR is honored for this recognition as the leading forest carbon standard in North America.

Ranking of ten voluntary forest carbon standards was based on contracted forest offset purchase volume in 2011.

Winrock International, a world leader in developing environmentally rigorous forest carbon standards and methodologies, has developed technical guidance for registration on its American Carbon Registry (ACR) of REDD + projects nested within a jurisdictional accounting framework.

Not exact matches

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The World Bank also does not really follow accurate carbon accounting, nor do they incorporate carbon adequately in their forest sustainability standards.

COTAP's carbon offset projects, which counteract emissions through tree planting, agroforestry and forest protection, are all located in areas where income levels are less than $ 2 per day, and are certified under Plan Vivo, the world's longest - standing voluntary standard for forest carbon.

That story quoted environment minister Carlos Morales Vázquez as saying the state had cancelled a program that used the acronym «REDD» for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, a term that generally refers to programs that harness carbon markets to save endangered rainforest using agreed - upon carbon standards and methodologies.

The Surui Forest Carbon Project is designed to prevent at least five million tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted over 30 years while protecting critical rainforest habitat, and its credits have been certified under both the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity (CCB) Alliance.

But I get very terresrtial visions: Mobile wood distilleries browsing the forests (Bayerwald Standard Holzöle), or collecting farm waste to produce carbon negative methanol.

Economists must offer convincing demonstrations of what is already apparent from the data: that modest warming correlates with increased GNP, higher average income, and enhanced living standards across the globe; and that carbon dioxide, rather than being a pollutant, benefits the growth of agricultural crops and forests.

Every standard that harnesses carbon finance to save endangered rainforest and Reduce greenhouse gas Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) is built on these Guidelines, and any agreement forged under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) must adhere to them.

The VCS remained the most popular voluntary standard in the forest carbon markets, with projects developed according to VCS methodologies transacting 14.6 MtCO2e, or 46 % of all market activity.

The Surui Forest Carbon Project (SFCP) earned dual validation under both the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), which ensures that the project is following recognized procedures for measuring carbon emissions reductions, and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standard Gold, which ensures the project is being carried out in a way that preserves biodiversity and serves the people living there.

The Surui — like the Tolo River People — first had to work with consultants to measure the carbon captured in trees, identify the threats to the forest, convert the threats and acreage to carbon emissions, and then calculate emission reductions that would be generated by saving the endangered portion of the forest — all in accordance with complex technical requirements of international carbon accounting standards.

Projects adhering to the ACR standard contracted the largest volume of forest carbon credits from any North American program... owing to their popularity among purely voluntary buyers based primarily in the U.S.» Corporate Social Responsibility buyers of the two million ACR forest offsets transacted in 2011 included Norfolk Southern, General Motors / Chevrolet and The Walt Disney Company.

We would like to thank the companies who have pioneered the development of forest carbon projects under our standard as well as those purchasing the offsets as an investment in the environment and to demonstrate voluntary action to reduce emissions,» said John Kadyszewski, director of ACR.

«The ACR Nested REDD + Standard is built on 15 years of work by Winrock around the world, providing technical assistance and building local capacity to design and implement science - based methods to measure, monitor and report carbon emission reductions from forests,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, director and chief scientist of Winrock International's Ecosystem Services group and Dr. Nancy Harris, lead scientists for the Standard.

This webinar explores topics like how project developers track and report their co-benefits; how standard bodies are expanding their methodologies to account for co-benefits; what role co-benefits play in marketing and selling forest carbon offsets; and the way in which co-benefits are, or could be, linked to the sustainable development goals.

American Carbon Registry Founding Members like Entergy agree: «Because of Entergy's ongoing efforts to actively participate in carbon offset projects, we pride ourselves on credibility and transparency, which is exactly what the Forest Carbon Project Standard will provide to the market,» said Brent Dorsey, director of Corporate Environmental Programs for Entergy Corporation.

The American Carbon Registry's Forest Carbon Project Standard offers project proponents several options for assuring the permanence of carbon stocks in forests.

These and other third - party standards also address permanence for forest - based carbon offset projects such as reforestation and avoided deforestation.

In their media release announcing the report, the World Agroforestry Centre points out the benefits of reducing deforestation in combatting climate change, and how they are working with the UNEP to develop a standard method for measuring carbon storage of landscapes, in order to develop mechanisms to incentivize farmers to preserve forests.

A forest conservation project backed by Shell, Gazprom Market and Trading and the Clinton Foundation on the island of Borneo has won approval under a carbon accounting standard, reports Reuters.

The plan was to save their forest and earn offsets for the carbon captured in trees under a financing mechanism know as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), but REDD project standards require a «Free Prior and Informed Consent» (FPIC, pronounced «F - pic») by the local people, a measure that requires disclosure, discussion and agreement — a process involving far more than just a few meetings between community leaders and a project developer.