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Microsoft snaps up Madagascan rainforest protection credits
2014-02-18 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Microsoft is helping to protect one of Madagascar's most pristine rainforests, after buying a block of carbon credits from the government. The IT giant confirmed last week that it has invested an undisclosed sum in the Makira REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation 'plus') conservation project. Overall, the project aims to curb deforestation on 320,000 hectares of land, preventing the release of 32.5 million metric tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. Deforestation...
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Rainforest Alliance to independently audit APP's zero deforestation commitment
2014-01-30 00:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Rainforest Alliance has agreed to conduct an audit of Asia Pulp & Paper's progress in implementing the zero deforestation policy the forestry giant signed last year. The deal, announced Thursday in Jakarta, could help boost the credibility of APP's policy, which while heralded as a breakthrough by several environmental groups, is still viewed with skepticism by some prominent critics, who remember past broken commitments from the paper producer. Rainforest Alliance knows the controversy well:...
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Climate change: Rainforest absorption CO2 becoming erratic
2014-01-26 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Tropical rainforests are becoming less able to cope with rising global temperatures according to a study that has looked back over the way they have responded to variations in temperature in the past half a century. For each 1C rise in temperature, tropical regions now release about 2 billion extra tonnes of carbon-containing gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, compared to the same amount of tropical warming in the 1960s and 1970s, the study found. Rising levels...
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Guardians turn predators of the rainforest
2014-01-24 11:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Alex Lacerda and Paulo Maués drive a silver pickup to an outdoor sawmill near the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Carrying 12-gauge shotguns, they step out and approach a shack, knock and enter cautiously. They are agents for Brazils environmental police. A stocky man identifies himself as Joo Pereira, owner. The agents ask him for two documents: an operating license for the sawmill and a certificate of origin for the lumber stacked outside. I have the license, Pereira says. My accountant...
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Carbon credit scheme for Indonesia's rainforest launched
2014-01-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: A new standard to measure carbon for rainforests was launched Thursday at the West Bali National Park, an initiative that designates the islands forest conservation site as the pilot project for research to develop a carbon credit mechanism. Launched by the Consortium for Rainforest Standards in Indonesia, this landmark initiative is expected to help reduce the loss of Indonesias tropical forests and biodiversity. It is also to provide a new way of generating income for the management of...
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