Carbon trading has been is in the headlines recently after claims that an Australian company has been involved in efforts to swindle Papua New Guinean land holders into handing over the rights to carbon stored in their forests. …[...]
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In the meantime,companies from Australia and PNG – conscious of the potential for carbon trading – are swooping in on ignorant landowners right around the country and are convincing them to sign over their rights to their forests. …[...] global warming started 7000 years ago. In Europe,slash-and-burn techniques for clearing forested land allowed the farming of crops that had spread from the Fertile Crescent. This practice loosed the forests’stored carbon into the …[...] Cap and Trade Calls for Productive US Farmland to be Converted to Forests Text size Traci Watson USA Today August 19,2009 Editor’s note:The cap. [...] As for carbon trading ,you pay locals to turn their forests into protected zones. It takes about 5 seconds of thought to notice that valuable lumber is still there and that any local is going to demand more and more money as payment for …[...] He was talking about carbon trading ,which I knew nothing about,and he said that Arnold Schwarzenegger would play a role in saving the forests. But there was something about him that really intrigued me. So I decided to follow him. …[...] As the forests shrink,their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from industrial lowlands diminishes,which means that more greenhouse gases would be added to the atmosphere,resulting in the acceleration of global warming …[...] However,if the forests being considered for carbon trading are indigenous peoples’ forests,then indigenous peoples should equitably benefit from revenues earned. States should include indigenous peoples in making decisions on the …[...] At a recent meeting in Manhattan on forest conservation,economic development and climate,two Nobel laureates,Al Gore and Kenya’s Wangari Maathai,joined the push to include forest preservation in carbon-trading markets as a way to …[...] | |||||