reforestation project News
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Blockchain will track 50 million trees through Investancia and EcoMatcher partnership
Leading agro-research company Investancia has teamed up with EcoMatcher to track a large-scale reforestation project using EcoMatcher’s blockchain-enabled digital tree-planting platform. Over the next ten years, 50 million trees will each receive a unique QR code in Investancia’s tree nursery. Once the trees are planted, each QR code is scanned with EcoMatcher’s TreeCorder app ...
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Uganda registers first forestry project in Africa to reduce global warming emissions
Uganda has become the first country in Africa to undertake a reforestation project that will help reduce global warming emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. The Nile Basin Reforestation Project in Uganda is a ground-breaking project being implemented by Uganda's National Forestry Authority (NFA) in association with local community organizations. The growing trees absorb carbon dioxide from the ...
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Entergy Project Restores Nearly 3,000 Acres of Bottomland Hardwood Forests
Entergy Corporation announced completion of the registration of a reforestation project in Arkansas and Louisiana that will remove an estimated 460,000 tons of carbon dioxide over the next 40 years. The project, which involved restoring 2,942 acres of marginal agricultural land to native bottomland hardwood forests, is registered with the widely respected American Carbon Registry and is one of ...
By Entergy
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Investancia Paraguay S.A. commences 30-day public comment period on VCS+CCB ARR carbon project
Comments are invited from the public about whether the below project meet the requirements of the Verified Carbon Standard and Climate, Community & Biodiversity Programs. Comments received by Verra will be published to the project record on the Verra Registry and must be considered by the project proponent and validation/verification body (VVB). Impact Reforestation in the Chaco Project ...
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Rejuvenating arid badlands: from barren slopes to living forest in 80 years
A reforestation project has revitalised its surroundings just 80 years after its inception. In the late 1920s, the Saldaña badlands in northern Spain were a barren region, with a thin layer of intensely weathered soil, and only 5% vegetation cover. Now that cover has increased dramatically to 87%, the soil quality is improving, and the water flow in the area has stabilised, bringing ...
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Guayaki Yerba mate highlighted at clinton global initiative annual meeting
Guayaki Yerba Mate, a pioneer and leader in the yerba mate beverage category, will be highlighted as part of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Guayaki was selected from a pool of candidates as a company with an extraordinary approach to addressing challenges in economic empowerment and deforestation. The company's Market Driven Restoration business model will be ...
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Chiquita Brands International, Inc : Chiquita Brands Set to Celebrate Earth Day With Community Outreach
Chiquita Brands Set to Celebrate Earth Day With Community OutreachEmployees to Volunteer in Local CommunitiesOpportunity to Showcase That Every Day is Earth DayCHARLOTTE, N.C.- April 19, 2013 - On Monday, April 22, 2013, people all around the world will celebrate Earth Day. To mark the occasion, Chiquita Brands (NYSE: CQB) will be getting hands on. Employees from the company's headquarters ...
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IGS to deliver vertical farming solution supporting first solar-powered commercial scale farm in Perth, Australia
IGS has secured a partnership with Eden Towers, the hyper-efficient vertical farming business, to power a commercial scale vertical farm in Western Australia to grow leafy greens, specialty crops and begin the development of indigenous crops to support the local indigenous community and enter new markets. The farm will be an Australian-first, located next door to the Shire of Murray’s ...
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Envirosearch.org Re-Launch: Bing-based Search Engine Supporting International Tree-Planting Initiative
The Carbonfund.org Foundation is pleased to announce the re-launch of a new and improved Envirosearch.org, a free, Bing-powered search engine that enables anyone to help protect the environment simply through their everyday web searches. Envirosearch.org supports international conservation projects like reforestation efforts and wildlife preservation, which includes supporting tree-planting ...
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Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 26 August–8 September 2010
Below is a roundup of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 26 August–8 September 2010 Microbicide gels that prevent HIV hindered by lack of funding The first vaginal microbicide gel that significantly reduces a woman's risk of HIV, announced in July, is struggling to get enough funding for the follow-up research necessary to get it to women in need. Only around half of the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Forest Restoration Projects in Ghana, United States and Uruguay Earn Independent Carbon Offset Validation from SCS Global Services
Projects on three continents that will absorb carbon dioxide by planting trees on more than 30,000 hectares of degraded lands have been given the green light, based on independent validations conducted by SCS Global Services (SCS). The six carbon offset projects, located in Ghana, the United States and Uruguay, will result in the generation of saleable carbon credits. In Uruguay, three projects ...
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Form Ghana First to Earn VCS Verification in West Africa
A project that aims to reforest 15,000 hectares of degraded lands in central Ghana and absorb more than 80,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually has been independently validated by SCS Global Services (SCS) under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). Under the project managed by Form Ghana, a forest plantation management company, natural forests are being restored and ...
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FedEx and conservation international collaborate on environmental initiatives in China
Today Conservation International (CI) announced a major investment by FedEx Corp. to support environmental projects in China. FedEx will donate US$600,000 to CI to run ten community conservation projects in China's Sichuan Province that will assist in the survival of one of the region's most well-known natives - the giant panda. Together, FedEx and CI will support reforestation in Sichuan ...
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