Americas > California releases draft tropical forest offset standard as it prepares to revisit contentious REDD issue

California releases draft tropical forest offset standard as it prepares to revisit contentious REDD issue

Published 15:36 on September 6, 2018  /  Last updated at 23:11 on November 23, 2022  / Dan McGraw /  Americas, Mexico, Nature-based, South & Central, US, Voluntary

California will hold a public meeting on Nov. 15 to consider whether regulators should endorse a tropical forest standard, in a move that would pave the way for the state's cap-and-trade programme to become the world's first compliance carbon market to allow REDD credits.
California will hold a public meeting on Nov. 15 to consider whether regulators should endorse a tropical forest standard, in a move that would pave the way for the state's cap-and-trade programme to become the world's first compliance carbon market to allow REDD credits.


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