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Assessing impacts of nature-based solutions: CMI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Reforestation, ecosystem regeneration and other projects will not only protect and restore biodiversity but could also support local communities and present a source of financial activity in the Asia Pacific region. The Carbon Market Institute (CMI) ...

New firm to address nature-based solution market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... we believe that the integrity of nature-based solutions is going to be a big driver of work." NatureCo identified reforestation, avoided deforestation, river and wetland restoration and blue carbon as areas of priority, and will focus on Asian, African ...

Australia on global list for deforestation hotspots: WWF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... at a significant scale," Taylor said. "If we just focused on habitats of threatened species and concentrated on reforestation where it's most important, by and large, you don't have to plant trees to do that - that's a costly way of doing it. Eucalypts ...

Global green bond market continues to grow, expand: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... change, we are addressing other issues like the protection of natural resources such as sustainable procurement and reforestation," she said. ".We have vehicles in which investors can elect to channel their funds, and if you look the year over year statistics ...

Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... over time, the early price provided sustainable revenue for costly abatement activities. Land sector projects - reforestation, savanna fire management, agricultural emissions - have been successful under the ERF so far, however there is a need to ensure ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... at Norton Rose Fulbright. "Those projects cover landfill gas, alternative waste treatment, avoided deforestation, reforestation, savannah burning and other types of agriculture activities. The expectation is that... a lot of them if not all of them will ...

CFI a source of economic opportunity for Indigenous groups

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... activities are limied, Foley of the Aboriginal Carbon Fund said. "You have savanna burning, savanna enrichment and reforestation down south basically," he said. "There is also human induced regeneration via feral animal cull. There are only about a dozen ...

Net Balance, Gold Standard report on co-benefits value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... projects conducted by The Gold Standard, including wind, cook stove, water filter, bio-digester and afforestation/reforestation projects. For example, the study cites the added health benefits of providing cook stoves to households that previously used ...

Three new CFI methodologies up for approval

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... environmental or mallee plantings using the Full Carbon Accounting Model; [and] measurement based methodology for reforestation projects," according to the Department of the Environment. The methodology proposals will next be drafted into determinations ...

Greenfleet registers two Carbon Farming Initiative projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Greenfleet, a reforestation not-for-profit, has had two of its reforestation projects registered under the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). Greenfleet used the CFI's Sequestration: Quantifying Carbon Sequestration by Permanent Environmental Plantings ...