The Kyoto Forestry Association (KFA) is seeking assurances from the Labour and National parties that their 2007 promises to post-1989 forest owners, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, can continue to be relied upon. Read more »
US Carbon Initiative Nets Key Canadian Province (Planet Ark)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The province of Ontario, Canada's industrial heartland, will join the Western Climate Initiative, a planned US-based regional carbon credit trading pact aimed at curbing global warming. Read more »
Canada’s Ontario Joins US Carbon Initiative (Planet Ark)
OTTAWA - The province of Ontario, Canada's industrial heartland, will join the Western Climate Initiative, a planned US-based regional carbon credit trading pact, the province's premier, Dalton McGuinty, said on Friday. Read more »
World Bank to help Himachal Pradesh increase forest cover (New Kerala)
Shimla, July 20 : The World Bank has agreed to extend the facility of carbon credit financing to Himachal Pradesh to encourage people to raise forests on private and community lands. Read more »