Friday, November 29, 2013
Quick Recap of COP19 from a Geoengineering Perspective
COP19 in Warsaw has come to its merciful conclusion, with little of significance to report from a geoengineering perspective. CCS was entirely absent from the agenda. While there was some progress on finalizing financial and institutional aspects of REDD, nothing substantial regarding afforestation or reforestation was achieved. The most meaningful outcome of the COP was an agreement among parties to "initiate or intensify domestic preparations for their intended nationally determined contributions" prior to COP21 in Paris in 2015, where a legal accord governing mitigation for the post-2020 period is scheduled to be adopted. These "contributions" (weaker than the "commitments" previously agreed at COP17 in Durban) will be determined solely on a national basis, freeing developed and developing countries alike from any binding emissions reduction targets negotiated at the international level. The general weakening of ambition represented by COP19 unfortunately makes an eventual turn to SRM more likely.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Carbon Credits Awarded to Moldova Afforestation Project
Two weeks ago, the Moldova Community Forestry Development Project, an afforestation project supported by the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund, was awarded 328,809 temporary Certified Emission Credits (tCERs). (tCERs are carbon credits issued by the CDM for afforestation and reforestation projects.) This Moldova A/R project, implemented by the National Forest Agency of Moldova (Moldsilva), has planted trees on 10,000 hectares of previously degraded land. In addition to carbon storage, project benefits include landscape restoration, soil conservation, and economic opportunities through sustainable forestry.
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