California senator urges ARB to oppose Tropical Forest Standard
California regulator ARB should not endorse its Tropical Forest Standard (TFS) next month because sector-based REDD offsets lack environmental and social integrity and fail to address the root causes of deforestation, a state senator said, potentially opening a bicameral rift over the already divisive issue.
Read MoreGermany suspends Brazil forest aid amid deforestation resurgence
Germany is suspending some of its long-standing forest protection funding to Brazil because it doubts Brasilia is continuing preservation efforts.
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Read MoreGlasgow selected as venue for UN climate talks in 2020
Next year’s UN climate summit will be held in Glasgow, the UK government announced on Friday, assuming the country wins in its bid to host the annual conference.
Read MoreUN panel flags potential role for land-use carbon incentives, warns on BECCS
Paying landowners to protect their land could play a vital role in tackling climate change, though large-scale bioenergy use and storage could worsen the effects without careful management, according to UN-backed scientific panel IPCC in a landmark report.
Read MoreFourteen offset programmes apply for ICAO’s CORSIA aviation mechanism
UN aviation body ICAO’s expert panel will consider 14 emissions unit programme applications for the global offsetting mechanism CORSIA, with the submissions ranging from Kyoto era offset programmes and REDD initiatives to jurisdictional schemes in China, the Middle East, and Poland.
Read MoreBRIEFING: World Bank REDD Deals
Three African nations have now signed deforestation reduction agreements under the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) that could form the base of possible international emissions trade, with more deals expected to come later this year.
Read MoreCalifornia’s ARB to consider updated Tropical Forest Standard at September meeting
California regulator ARB will consider endorsing an updated version of its Tropical Forest Standard (TFS) at the board’s Sep. 19 meeting, nearly a year after the agency delayed its original approval of the possible precursor to jurisdictional REDD offsetting following a flurry of backlash.
Read MoreNew REDD standard targets heavily forested countries for national-scale GHG reductions
A new REDD standard will look to incentivise national-scale emission reductions in high forest cover, low deforestation (HFLD) countries, and the resulting carbon credits will be designed for use in a variety of compliance and voluntary markets.
Read MoreNorway and Suriname to explore carbon credits for preventing deforestation -report
Norway and Suriname are said to be exploring an arrangement where the South American country would earn carbon credits for keeping its tropical forest intact, according to a local news report.
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