Lessons learned from twenty years saving rainforests
Released this week by Forest Trends and the Katoomba Group, the report looks at over 200 different projects on the ground in forests as well as face to face interviews with operators developing and investing in carbon forest projects.
"No two forest carbon projects are alike," claims Katherine Hamilton, Managing Director of Ecosystem Marketplace who collaborated on the report. "Yet, while interviewing over 50 practitioners in the field, common lessons and hurdles emerged."
"One of the most useful sections of the report looks at the basic criteria for project screening and selection criteria which provide a good framework for minimising risks for forest-owners, developers and investors," suggests Matthew Owen, Director of Cool Earth, a UK charity which focuses on protecting rainforests and developing long term initiatives linked to the voluntary carbon marketplace.
The report looks closely at the implications of and how best to work with both the local and national contexts for forest carbon project development.
"If you are not investing in forest carbon, you are not going to tackle a key segment of emissions contributing to climate change," concludes Sissel Waage, Director of the Katoomba Group.
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