Deforestation Credits Achieving Premium Prices, CF Partners Says

July 3, 2011

Carbon credits from projects to halt deforestation can achieve “premium prices” compared with other types of voluntary offsets as demand is set to quadruple in the next three years, according to CF Partners.

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Redd Forests on ABC Stateline: Friday 1 July 2011

July 2, 2011

Stephen on ABC Stateline Friday 1 July 2011

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Interview with Jarrah Vercoe of redd Forests on ABC Rural

June 30, 2011

Redd Forests’ Jarrah Vercoe featured on Tasmanian Country Hour

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Carbon Trading Markets Booming

June 9, 2011

As countries around the world struggle to reach an agreement on an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, the voluntary international carbon trading market is picking up steam.

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Voluntary Carbon Market Surges, Global Carbon Trading Stalls

June 6, 2011

The voluntary carbon market shrugged off policy failures and the closure of the Chicago Climate Exchange in 2010 to post a 34% surge in volume to a record 131 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) worth at least $424 million, according to “Back to the Future: State and Trends of the Voluntary Carbon Markets [...]

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UK Quality Assurance Scheme for Carbon Offsetting to end on June 30th

May 24, 2011

LONDON, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The UK Government’s Quality Assurance Scheme (QAS) for Carbon Offsetting, is closing down on the 30th June as the Government recognises that the Voluntary Carbon Market has developed and brought about great increases in Quality and Self Regulation.

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Redd Forests wins first improved forestry management project approval

May 16, 2011

Stian Reklev – Point Carbon News – Australia and New Zealand 13 May Australian firm Redd Forests this month announced it had won approval under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) for a Tasmania-based forestry project that will generate 40,000 voluntary carbon credits annually for the next 25 years.

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REDD+ must attract private investment: UN study

May 11, 2011

Published : Monday, May 9th, 2011 By : Carbon Positive The enormous potential of forest carbon mechanisms must be harnessed with well-designed policy that will attract private sector finance on a large scale. That’s the only way the large multi-billion-dollar funding requirement needed to halt deforestation and help mitigate climate change can be fulfilled, a [...]

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Counting up the carbon captured

April 27, 2011

Sydney Morning Herald, Business Day, April 23, 2011 Paddy Manning Redd Forests, a little company 20 per cent-owned by the Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron, is proving that threatened native forest in Tasmania can have more value standing than if it was logged, by generating carbon credits from it.

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Investing in forests could save the world

April 15, 2011

By Thomas Kostigen SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — The United Nations is hoping that investors will see the forest for the trees. Officials from more than 35 nations covering the world’s three major rain-forest regions — the Amazon, the Congo, and the Borneo-Mekong Basins — plan to gather next month to find ways to better [...]

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