LONDON, Feb 9 - A Kenyan project has become the first to issue Redd credits under the Voluntary Carbon Standard. NGO Wildlife Works announced Tuesday its reducing emissions from deforestation and ...

* U.S. firm says technique passes carbon accounting hurdle * Step could boost development of REDD * Australian firm signs large REDD deal in Indonesia By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, ...

The “Avoidance of deforestation and forest degradation in the border area of southern Laos and central Vietnam for the long-term preservation of carbon sinks and biodiversity” project (CarBi project) ...

As REDD projects around the world face setbacks, restoration projects in the Amazon are flourishing as a means of reviving market confidence in forest-based carbon credits. In Brazil, the golden goose ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. The United Nations established the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism in the early 2000’s ...

The world’s largest carbon credit certifier, Verra, has overhauled its methods for calculating the climate impacts of REDD projects that aim to reduce deforestation. REDD stands for reducing emissions ...

Remarkable achievements with more than one thousand hectares replanted and subsistence agriculture practiced allowing people to fight against poverty and increase their financial resources. The ...

Both projects are now in the process of finalizing their registration applications with the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) program and are scheduled for imminent revalidation and verification. CGI is committed ...

In 2024,a police raid on Brazil’s largest producer of carbon credits marked the lowest point yet in the long reputation crisis of REDD projects. Major companies that had bought credits from those ...