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A UN case study of a CDM reforestation project in central Africa provides some valuable insights into two familiar obstacles in the carbon project development space. First, is the difficulty of establishing CDM projects in the afforestation and reforestation sector, and second, the barriers to getting any sort of carbon project up and running in Africa, a continent poorly represented in the CDM and voluntary carbon markets now worth hundreds of billions worldwide.
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative has released a report entitled
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Patrick Karani
on Nov 16th, 2009
@ 6:53 am:
This is an interesting project for Africa and similar initiatives should be promoted to enhance Africa’s participation in contributing to addressing cliamte change problem and achieving sustainable development. However, it is not clear on the basis of additinality how the project will reduce fire hazards prone in savannah ecosystems. Also, the issue of leakage should be mentioned considering the nature of the project and the magnitude within a local community establishment, a number of anticipated issues of illegal wood harvesting are likely to occur as aresult of restrictions to manage and conserve the the planted trees to meet the A/R for CER objectives.