Wouldn’t it be great if there was a system, through which such community based organizations, like www.vakanala.org from Madagascar, could plug into existing money streams for tree planting and climate care? If there was a transparent standard, simple and easy to monitor, to pay for growing trees, and other grass roots carbon measures. “Tree credits” [...]
Tree Credits Community Based Tree Planting by Ferdinand Swart, EcoDesignCenter, Dehiwale, Sri Lanka www.tree-credits.org Lord Nicholas Stern: “The two defining challenges of our century are climate change and poverty. And if we fail on one, we will fail on the other”. 2009 Ban Ki Moon, UN chief: “Like in Microfinance, women can be agents of [...]
If an extra four per cent of the United Kingdom’s land were planted with new woodland over the next 40 years, it could be locking up ten per cent of the nation’s predicted greenhouse gas emissions by the 2050s. That’s the view of an expert, independent panel of scientists who today published the first national [...]
3) Who can participate and will be able to make a living out of tree planting? The scheme is open to all, young and old, poor or rich, female or male, but In practice first in those countries for which funding can be found and the government is willing to cooperate. In (oil) rich countries [...]
Dear ACT, Thanks, your mail is most welcome, it is the right time to start a pilot project in Afghanistan. Here in Sri lanka we are doing tree planting projct with young poeple of the YZA, but further we are still in a pioneering stage. Already my mind is working overtime to work out a [...]
Dear ACT, Thanks, your mail is most welcome, it is the right time to start a pilot project in Afghanistan. Here in Sri lanka we are doing tree planting projct with young poeple of the YZA, but further we are still in a pioneering stage. Already my mind is working overtime to work out a [...]
I found this quote which surprised me positively: In addition, we can reduce and offset up to 20% of our emmissions by conserving and restoring the world’s forests. Forests not only store twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere, but constantly reabsorb it through photosynthesis. Nature’s carbon-storage technology is extraordinarily efficient and [...]
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