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The Rockefeller Foundation commissioned an assessment of the investment potential for agricultural carbon in Africa that could improve soil fertility, enhance carbon stocks and contribute to food security. Climate Focus -in collaboration with Forest Trends and Ecoagriculture Partners- has published a feasibility study for “An African Agricultural Carbon Facility Feasibility Assessment and Design Recommendations”. Read more...
Climate Focus is releasing a study commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to assess the supply of high quality REDD + credits for international carbon markets (2011-2035). Read more...
Charlotte Streck gave a lecture titled "From Copenhagen to Cancun: The Future of Legal Regime Governing Climate Change" at the law school of the University of Wisconsin. Read more...
Roundtable on Article 24a of the revised EU ETS Directive - Brussels On the 1st of March 2010, Climate Focus, together with the Belgian Ministry of Health Food Chain Safety and Environment and Caisse des dépôts, organised a roundtable held in Brussels on the potentials of Article 24a of the revised EU ETS Directive for developing a system of domestic offsets within the European Union. Representatives of the EU Commission, the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee, Member States, the private sector and research institutes actively participated with presentations and discussions. Read more...
Emissions trading can boost energy efficiency in Chinese buildings; argue Climate Focus’s Karla Lieberg, Sandra Greiner and Adriaan Korthuis in an article published in in the March edition of Trading Carbon. Read more...
The Nairobi Framework back in 2006 has as objective to foster the use of Clean Development Mechanism in underrepresented regions. Africa has seen an augment both in the number of CDM projects and in the number of countries hosting them. Nevertheless, Africa continues to represent less than 2% of the total CDM projects registered. Read more...
The 2009 climate change conference in Copenhagen did not produce the new global treaty to address climate change many people sought. Nevertheless, climate change and climate change law and policy continue. Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading is a follow-up to the successful 2005 book Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms: Making Kyoto Work. In this new edition Charlotte Streck and David Freestone offer a comprehensive insight of the crucial legal issues surrounding the world of carbon finance. Read more...
Christiana Figueres and Charlotte Streck published a background paper on enhanced financial mechanism for post-2012 developing country mitigation for the World Development Report 2010. Read more...
Climate Focus prepared an analysis of the treatment of international carbon credits in the US cap-and-trade bills for the the January 2010 edition of the Carbon Trading and Energy Finance Committee Newsletter of the American Bar Association (ABA). Read more...
The German Ministry of the Environment (BMU) has appointed a consortium of Tsinghua University, Climate Focus and four other organisations to evaluate and test the application of carbon financing instruments to the Chinese building sector. Read more...
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development this week published a report on carbon market options for Kazakhstan prepared by Climate Focus. The report looks into the status of Kazakhstan under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol and examines options for carbon market activities, in particular Joint Implementation (JI). Read more..
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Ecofys and Climate Focus have been awarded a study contract by the European Commission to look into possible design options for effective and formal private sector engagement within the international climate change policy development and implementation process. Read more...
On 23 October, 2009, Charlotte Streck will be a panelist at Columbia Law School's Bio-Sequestration and Climate Law and Policy Conference. Read more..
The provision of adequate resources for financing the three building blocks of the Bali Action Plan (mitigation, adaptation, technology) is at the centre of UNFCCC negotiations. The design of an appropriate financial mechanism is therefore an essential element of an agreed outcome at the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 (COP-15). Read more...
Upon request of the countries of the Central African Commission on Forests (COMIFAC), Climate Focus prepared a document analyzing various REDD financing options, with a particular emphasis on the implications of market and fund based approaches. The document was presented as the ministerial meeting of the COMIFAC that took place in Kinshasa on the 15/16 September 2009. Read more...
The European Forestry House hosted a workshop aimed at exchanging views with private forests owners, the wood industry and NGOs on the inclusion of forestry carbon credits in the EU ETS. Dr. Charlotte Streck made a presentation aimed at responding to concerns from EU’s DG Environment about the possible impact of inclusion of forestry credits on the EU carbon market. Read more..
The complete set of REDD Methodology Modules was submitted to TÜV SÜD for validation against the Voluntary Carbon Standard in April 2009. TÜV SÜD conducted a 30 day public commenting period as part of their review of the modules. Read more...
The initiative has brought together a group of internationally recognized climate policy experts to develop a series of freely available methodology modules for advancing REDD projects. These modules will enable project developers to estimate the real emission reductions of projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation ("REDD"). Read more...
In a special report commissioned by the Government of Norway released March 16th 2009 Climate Focus’ Charlotte Streck contributed to the structuring of financial mechanisms that frame a flexible, global approach to providing adequate incentives to REDD policies and greenhouse gas reductions from the forest sector. Read more...
The Various Levels of REDD” summarizes findings from a September 23rd, 2008 workshop covering topics regarding the architecture of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation...
On September 22, 2008, Avoided Deforestation Partners convened a luncheon and roundtable discussion in New York. Special international guests, such as Dr. Wangari Matthaai and Al Gore, were joined by NGO chairpersons and presidents, private sector investors, and project developers to discuss the importance of REDD policy and strategies for strengthening international forest protecttion provisions in US climate change legislation. Read more...
Climate Focus, Avoided Deforestation Partners, and other organizations (Green Belt Movement, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Covington & Burling LLP, PG&E Corp., and Baker & McKenzie LLP) hosted a luncheon discussion on 19 May 2008 on the science and economics behind climate change and deforestation. Read more...
The report, The Role of Sector No-Lose Targets in Scaling up Finance for Climate Change Mitigation Activities in Developing Countries, prepared for DEFRA has been published. Read more...
The Programme of Activities (PoA) is a strong new concept under the CDM with the potential to literally bring the benefits of the CDM into the houses of people in developing and Least Developed Countries (LDC). Climate Focus was invited by the CDM Executive Board to provide suggestions for further improvement of the PoA concept. Read more...
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The Magazine of the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers published an interview with Adriaan Korthuis, Director of Climate Focus, on 9 January 2008 addressing the state of the Climate Change debate, the current carbon market and the need of poor countries to receive finance to combat climate change. Read more...
Dr. Charlotte Streck gave the first Lecture in a series titled “Blowing in the Wind: Current Issues in Law, Environment and Development” during the month of January 2008. Read more...
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