Growing money on trees?Source: Nature 13 January 2009
The struggle of an Indian plantation manager to get his forest onto the global carbon market has highlighted the obstacles to growing forests to offset carbon emissions. The scheme could yield enormous economic benefits and aid biodiversity conservation, but it is hampered by bureaucratic hurdles.As part of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) industrialised countries can meet some of their greenhouse gas reduction targets by purchasing carbon credits from developing country projects that reduce emissions.
The struggle of an Indian plantation manager to get his forest onto the global carbon market has highlighted the obstacles to growing forests to offset carbon emissions. The scheme could yield enormous economic benefits and aid biodiversity conservation, but it is hampered by bureaucratic hurdles.As part of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) industrialised countries can meet some of their greenhouse gas reduction targets by purchasing carbon credits from developing country projects that reduce emissions.
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