* 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

A new report by the Earth Innovation Institute (EII) estimates that REDD+ jurisdictional projects in the Brazilian Amazon could generate up to $20 billion through the sale of carbon credits. The study ...

The Cambodian government recently approved at least three new irrigation dam projects within protected forests of the Cardamom Mountains that overlap with two carbon credit projects, reports ...

When ProPublica published an investigation last week about the persistent problems of carbon credits linked to tropical forest preservation, supporters of the system vehemently disputed whether this ...