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

[Janet Alty]

Many thanks Steve : the networking is happening.  Brill...

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Janet Alty, janet at alty.net
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> From: "S.J. Stretton" <sjstretton at googlemail.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:51:25 +0000
> To: "Janet Alty" <janet at alty.net>
> Cc: "Deepak Rughani" <dee.rughani at btinternet.com>,  "Almuth Ernsting"
> <almuthbernstinguk at yahoo.co.uk>,  "Neale Upstone" <neale at nealeupstone.com>,
> committee at zerocarbonnow.org
> Subject: Re: R4 7:22 New campaign to value the rainforest
> 
> 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
>> 
>>