[Committee] R4 7:22 New campaign to value the rainforest

[S.J. Stretton]

On 9/12/07, Janet Alty <janet at alty.net> wrote:
>  I can't get my machine to play it back to me, but I did hear it this
> morning and appears to be a new campaign to set value on the carbon in the
> Amazon, for example, name was Andrew Mitchell, I think and website may be [...]

VivoCarbon Initiative  http://www.globalcanopy.org/ ?

"Andrew Mitchell, GCP Founder and Director. Email: a.mitchell at globalcanopy.org
Hylton Murray-Philipson, GCP Trustee. Email: hylton at winven.co.uk "

"The GCP proposes that Britain and Brazil should enter into a
bi-lateral programme starting 2007 to develop, test, and implement a
new market in ecosystem services, including storage of carbon, with
the State of Amazonas (the Amazonas Initiative). In parallel, a
scientific and economic assessment will be made of the ecosystem
services forest canopies provide to the atmosphere and their value to
humanity in collaboration with the United Nations Environment
Programme."

"The Vivocarbon Fund will support the Amazonas Initiative as a "large
scale pilot project" called for in the UK Government's Stern Review
and will inform negotiations leading up to the 2012 Kyoto II round."



> May be worth following up.
>  Best
>  --
>  Janet Alty, janet at alty.net
>  Tel +44(0)1926 427773
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