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Climate Focus is helping Kenya become one of the first developing nations in Africa to receive REDD+ financing to conserve and restore its forests.
South Africa has abundant sunshine, yet only a tiny fraction is converted into useable energy. Climate Focus will change this through one of Africa’s first Programme of Activities (POA) installing solar water heaters across South Africa.
Can European Union member states host domestic offset projects? Climate Focus is facilitating discussions about how provisions under Article 24a of the amended Directive establishing a European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) can create incetives for the generation of domestic offsets within the EU.
Finding great investments in the carbon markets is a challenge. Our work for the Climate Cent Foundation secured profitable project investments around the world in the energy, transport, and agriculture sectors.
Can carbon finance create a cleaner, more efficient building sector in China? Climate Focus is testing programmatic approaches for the Clean Development Mechanism in Xiamen, China.
Frigid winters and warm summers drain energy and money from homes. Climate Focus is helping the U.S. State of Maine use the carbon markets to finance the weatherization of low-income housing -- the first such project in the US.
The Rockefeller Foundation wanted to know how agriculture could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the lives of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The Agricultural Carbon Facility study offers an answer.
More than 20 lawyers, most from developing countries, have come together in an initiative to develop a new Certified Emission Reduction Sale and Purchase Agreement (CERSPA) template. The objective of the initiative is to develop a simple, understandable and balanced CDM project agreement. The template agreement will assist sellers participate in the international carbon market on an equal footing with more experienced buyers.
The first session in a dialogue series focused on climate change is being sponsored by the Governments of Mexico and Switzerland. The World Business Council on Sustainable Development and the International Chamber of Commerce are hosting the series, and the first session, held on September 1-2 in Geneva, focuses on the role of the private sector in a future climate regime. Climate Focus Director Charlotte Streck facilitates the session. Read more...
Climate Focus and Climate Wedge presented comments to the California Environmental Protection Agency encouraging it draft its guidelines for California’s cap and trade system to influence emerging international REDD mechanisms. The rules defined for AB 32’s demand for REDD offsets and internationally linked credits can shape long term sustainable and scalable REDD mechanisms and associated projects. Read more...
Although contributing 14% of the world’s GHG emissions, agriculture has been largely neglected until now. Michael Coren looks at the future of the agricultural sector and climate change in an editorial for the Katoomba Group. With synergies between mitigation and adaptation within reach, agriculture’s time has finally come. Read more...
Climate Focus promotes African access to carbon markets by actively participating in the World Bank sponsored African Electrification Initiative (AEI). Read more...
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