Leveraging the Landscape

摘要: Over the last three years, projects that address relationships between carbon and forests have moved from sidelines of international climate action to center field. Forestry’s recent advancements are product decades ongoing collaboration among market environmental experts seeking strike an ideal balance forestry projects’ risks shared benefits. Market dynamics in 2011 demonstrated these efforts never been more pivotal, or complex, as forest mature – find themselves positioned squarely midst some today’s most challenging policy debates. This year, a record number project developers secondary suppliers around world data about their transactions. third annual State Forest Carbon Markets tracks, reports, analyzes trends responses. information is primarily based on collected respondents Ecosystem Marketplace’s developer’s survey, combined with 2012 Voluntary report. The analysis follow cover activity compliance markets including Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS), South Wales Greenhouse Gas Reduction (NSW GGAS) British Columbia’s (BC) Neutral Government directive well voluntary Over-the-Counter (OTC) country-specific programs worldwide. In total, we captured responses 140 proponents primary 35 market. Respondents represented 215 individual projects, half which transacted credits totaling 451 analyzed all survey years.