Mongabay on Nostr: Researchers say carbon credit projects involving private companies, NGOs and logging ...
Researchers say carbon credit projects involving private companies, NGOs and logging companies have proliferated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They’ve documented projects covering more than a quarter of the DRC’s nearly 200 million hectares of forest.
Preliminary findings suggest that the DRC lacks the governmental guardrails to ensure these projects are helping to avoid deforestation and that they are not harming communities.
By John Cannon
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/drc-carbon-credit-projects-surge-amid-lack-of-regulation/
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They’ve documented projects covering more than a quarter of the DRC’s nearly 200 million hectares of forest.
Preliminary findings suggest that the DRC lacks the governmental guardrails to ensure these projects are helping to avoid deforestation and that they are not harming communities.
By John Cannon
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/drc-carbon-credit-projects-surge-amid-lack-of-regulation/
#News