Redd Forests on Al Jazeera

December 12, 2011
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International carbon markets: what are the implications for Australia?

October 21, 2011

By Tony Wood Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute at University of Melbourne First published on October 19 in The Conversation Anyone observing the climate change debate from Australia might think the world is moving away from carbon trading schemes. That would be understandable, but wrong.

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Redd Forests in The Australian: Emissions trading scheme? Take a leaf out of our book

October 12, 2011

Sue Neales, Rural reporter From: The Australian October 12, 2011 12:00AM FOR Tasmanian grazier Roderic O’Connor, the debate raging in Canberra about a national carbon tax and emissions trading scheme seems a little irrelevant.

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Trees Win Big as Forest Carbon Surges to Record Year

September 30, 2011

29 September 2011 | Washington, DC | Investors and buyers have funneled record amounts of capital into forestry projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by conserving forests and capturing carbon in trees, according to a global survey of carbon market participants published on Thursday by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace. The report, “State of the Forest [...]

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Redd Forests up to 13 projects in Tasmania

September 27, 2011

We have now contracted with 13 landowners to protect native forests on private land in Tasmania.  As of today we have over 36,000 hectares under contract and have issued some 170,000 VCS (and NCOS approved) offset credits.  If you are looking to be carbon neutral then these offsets can help you and you can watch [...]

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Trees, Drought and Dollars: How Ecosystem Markets Can Help The South

September 21, 2011

As of Aug. 11, the state of Texas had lost at least $5 billion worth of crops and cattle to the current drought that is choking the U.S. South.  That number has surely grown since, and is likely to continue growing across the entire region, hitting everything from peanuts and cotton to trees. Those trees [...]

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Playing with fire

September 19, 2011

by David Bowman We have been fascinated and repelled by fire for millennia. It’s the defining feature of humanity and it has powered all cultures. But our relationship with this fundamental element, whether wild or contained, is changing with our planet. The intellectual gulf between fire and human life has been entrenched in urban environments [...]

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The forest companies of the future

August 25, 2011

Forests could increasingly act as a backbone of sustainable economies. Companies that recognise this can advance their own bottom line, and help ensure that forests thrive

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Our forestry offset projects now NCOS compliant

August 9, 2011

Australian companies and individuals wishing to become carbon neutral (or just offset some of their emissions) under the Australian Government’s National Carbon Offset Scheme (NCOS) can now buy and use Redd Forests Tasmanian forestry offsets (see the projects page on this site). Indeed ours are the only Australian based projects compliant with NCOS.

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Trees to grow money

July 18, 2011

The Examiner 17 Jul, 2011 12:00 AM BY MATT MALONEY ‘Landowners with large native forest lots could earn more by leaving their trees standing’Carbon credits add to forest value 

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