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A close look at the quality of REDD+ carbon credits

2020
Scholarly Work
Thlago Chagas, Hilda Galt, Charlotte Streck, Donna Lee, Till Neeff
This paper seeks to provide some initial guidance on the technical features and advantages and risks of different carbon standards, focusing on criteria that influence the integrity of carbon credits around reforestation and avoided deforestation.

Ore. Rev. Stat. §526.780 et seq. – Oregon forestry offsets

2019
Enacted Legislation
This law permits the state forester to develop contracts with non-federal forest landowners to market, register, transfer or sell forest carbon offsets, which includes activities related to afforestation and reforestation, as a stewardship incentive.

British Airways Pledge

2019
Declaration
British Airways announced that it will offset the carbon emissions from all of its UK domestic flights through renewable energy, rainforest protection, and reforestation programs.

Amazon Pledge

2019
Declaration
Amazon has committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and is launching a $100 million fund to restore and protect forests, wetlands, and peatlands to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?

2019
Scholarly Work
Matthew E. Fagan, J. Leighton Reid, Margaret B. Holland, Justin G. Drew, Rakan A. Zahawi
This paper considers the relative likelihood that countries will achieve their voluntary national forest restoration commitments.

ECCA30

2019
Policy Proposal
UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), World Resources Institute (WRI), World Bank
ECCA30 seeks to bring 30 million hectares of degraded and deforested land in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia into restoration by 2030.