Three continents for one project – Karbon-X, a Canada-based climate solutions company, has been hired by a subsidiary of Dutch oil company Oilinvest to provide technical advisory services for the early development of a proposed nature-based carbon project in Libya’s Tripoli Wildlife Park. The Canadian company will help design the project’s carbon accounting framework, develop project documentation, assess methodologies, and establish MRV systems needed for international carbon standards certification. The proposed project aims to restore degraded landscapes through afforestation and ecosystem restoration, enhancing biodiversity and improving ecosystem resilience, all while hopefully generating future tradable carbon offset credits.

Ghost forests – A new study in Biogeosciences has found that dead trees standing in reservoirs, referred to as ghost forests, are an overlooked source of methane emissions in GHG accounting. The findings indicated that current reservoirs emissions estimates may undercount methane because measurement often focuses on emissions from the water surface, ignoring standing dead trees which can have significant emissions depending on water depth and tree characteristics. The Australian research team suggested incorporating ghost forests into reservoir carbon accounting could improve the accuracy of freshwater methane emissions estimates, better informing reservoir management and climate mitigation strategies.