Forestry investment projects worldwide could be the benficiary of a new plan unveiled by George Soros, the billionaire financier.
Mr Soros has submitted a proposal this week to give poorer nations up to $100bn, using the International Monetary Fund’s reserves to deal with the threat of climate control . Speaking at the Climate Control summit in [...]
For those not particularly familar with “The Forest Investment Program” (FIP), this is a programme within the World Bank’s Strategic Climate Fund (a Trust Fund which is part of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds).
They have recently updated their website (which forms part of the climatefundsupdate.org website) in preparation for the Copenhagen COP [...]
Millions of trees are ready to go into “carbon forestry” as soon as Australia’s emissions trading legislation is completed. In July, Carbon Conscious, a part of the Australian Agricultural Contracts, signed a carbon sink forest deal with Origin Energy potentially worth up to $169 million. .Carbon Conscious also has recently completed a deal with BP [...]
