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Forests are essential to slow climate change. Trees absorb CO2 and store carbon. Apes disperse seeds that grow into trees.
Forests are essential to slow climate change.
Trees absorb CO2 and store carbon.
Apes disperse seeds that grow into trees.

How saving the apes can help the fight against climate change.

Carbon trading has suddenly become a multi-BILLION dollar business. Not only could it reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming, however, it could also help protect forests where gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gibbons live.

This new working group has been set up to explore the potential of carbon finance to contribute to the conservation of apes and their habitat. Some conservation groups are already putting these ideas into practice – see http://www.climate-standards.org/

The ApAl Carbon WG is currently lobbying to change the rules governing carbon trading so that “avoided deforestation” carbon credits (especially from tropical countries) are recognised under the Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading System. We must convince world leaders BEFORE the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (see http://unfccc.int/2860.php ) concludes negotiations on the agreement that will follow the Kyoto Protocol (which ends in 2012).

The following documents explain this complex topic in more detail. Please read them and write to your MP, MEP, Senator or Congressman urging him or her to lend support.

Documents to download:

  1. Sample letter:
    An open letter from the Ape Alliance chairman to Rt Hon David Miliband MP, UK Secretary of State for Environment
    Please feel free to use this letter as a basis for yours, or simply write in support of it.
  2. Summary of arguments sent with above letter.
  3. Submission by SFM to the UK Environmental Audit Committee’s Voluntary Carbon Market Inquiry.
  4. Submission by SFM to DEFRA consultation on voluntary standards for carbon trading
  5. Two page leaflet summarising the issue.
  6. Forest Carbon briefing document by Global Canopy Programme (more info at www.globalcanopy.org)
  7. The VivoCarbon Initiative - Forests First in the Fight Against Climate Change (more info at www.globalcanopy.org)
  8. Ape Alliance members helped to draft the Forest NOW Declaration, launched with a full page ad in the Financial Times on 12th September 2007. Sign up to this important Declaration at www.ForestsNOW.org and view the calendar counting down to Copenhagen 2009 at www.forestsnow.org/calendar.php

VideosClick here to view Ape Alliance videos.

Archive of scientific articles: Click here to download and read Carbon Working Group related articles.

Science news & articles relating to the Carbon Working Group.
ITTO Newsletter Examines the Competitiveness of REDD and Oil Palm

1 February 2010:  The latest issue of the International Tropical Timber Organization's (ITTO) newsletter, Tropical Forest Update,  includes an article that questions whether payments for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) can make natural forests competitive with oil palm plantations.


http://climate-l.org/2010/02/02/itto-newsletter-examines-the-competitiveness-of-redd-and-oil-palm/

01/02/2010
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Reforestation vital for Africa & climate: Developer

A forest carbon developer has claimed the first validation of a reforestation project to the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), using the opportunity to argue for what it sees as the critical role for forest planting in a sector where attention is turning very much to avoided deforestation, or REDD.

Green Resources is currently developing two reforestation projects in Tanzania, one at Mapanda and Uchindele to the VCS, and another at Idete under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It's been involved in forest carbon investment in eastern and southern Africa since 1997.


http://www.carbonpositive.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=1862

28/01/2010
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Failure of Copenhagen may spur dodgy REDD deals, says report

by Rhett A. Butler


Lack of a clear framework and rules for a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) could jeopardize its effectiveness and put forest-dependent communities at risk of exploitation, cautions a new report released by an environmental rights policy group.

In "THE END OF THE HINTERLAND: Forests, Conflict and Climate Change", the Washington-based Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) warns that without clear rules to address land tenure and forests rights issues, REDD could increase conflict by boosting the perceived value of forest land. Forest communities - which have much to gain under a well-designed and well-implemented mechanism - are particularly at risk.


http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0126-redd.html

26/01/2010
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UK government launches second phase of carbon offsetting facility

The UK government has launched the second phase of its Carbon Offsetting Facility (GCOF II), which will offset emissions resulting from government air travel and potentially other emissions created by public sector organizations.


It will cover emissions generated in the period April 2009 to March 2012. There is the possibility of extending it to March 2013.


http://www.newstatesman.com/energy-and-clean-tech/2010/01/government-emissions-carbon

20/01/2010
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Buildings threaten UK emission targets, report says

UK targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2050 will not be met without radical changes to the engineering of buildings, a report says.


One of the study's authors criticised the government's "woeful track record on setting ill-considered targets".


The Royal Academy of Engineering report lays out a groundwork for reducing the environmental impact of new buildings as well as refurbishment of old ones. It added there was a serious skills gap in the sector that could grow worse.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8469070.stm

20/01/2010
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UK and UAE to fund £1m research into low carbon policies

Global low carbon policies will become a reality, after the UK government and an Arab institute joined forces to fund research.

The department for energy and climate change (DECC) will co-operate with the Masdar Institute from the UAE to support RENA, an international body that advises nations on renewable energy legislation.

Ed Miliband, minister for the department, said: "These two new collaborative projects are examples of exactly the type of global collaborative effort that we must encourage to tackle climate change problems."

http://www.lowcarboneconomy.com/community_content/_low_carbon_news/8438/uk_and_uae_to_fund_1m_research_into_low_carbon_policies

20/01/2010
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The following organisations attended the first meeting of the Ape Alliance Carbon WG:

  • Born Free Foundation
  • Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK
  • Cockroach Productions
  • Fauna and Flora International
  • International Fund for Animal Welfare
  • Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden
  • Sumatran Orangutan Society
  • Sustainable Forestry Management
  • Wildlife Conservation Society

The following organisations are involved in the Carbon Working Group.


Sumatran Orangutan Society
Carbon Working Group Secretariat
Helen Buckland
The Old Music hall
106-108 Cowley Road
Oxford OX4 1JE

Phone: +44 (0) 1865 403341
Web (en): www.orangutans-sos.org
Email: click for contact form

Born Free Foundation
Will Travers CEO
3 Grove House
Foundry Lane
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 5PL
Phone: +44 (0)1403 240 170
Fax: +44 (0)1403 327 838
Web (en): www.bornfree.org.uk
Email: click for contact form

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK (BOS UK)
Michelle Desilets
8 Temple Square
Aylesbury
Bucks
HP20 2QH
UK

Phone: 08456 521528
Web (en): www.savetheorangutan.org.uk
Email: click for contact form

Cockroach Productions
Nick Lyon & Evie Wright
The Old Tannery
Staplegrove
Taunton
Somerset TA2 6SP
www.films4.org
http://indonesiangibbons.blogspot.com/
Phone: 07850 921 207 & 208
Web (en): www.cockroach.org.uk
Email: click for contact form

Fauna & Flora International
Great Eastern House
Tenison Road
Cambridge
CB1 2TT
Phone: +44 (0) 1223 571000
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 461481
Web (en): www.fauna-flora.org
Email: click for contact form

Humane Society International
2100L St NW
Washington, DC 20037,
USA
Phone: 1 301 721 6458
Web (en): www.hsi.org

International Fund for Animal Welfare
87-90 Albert Embankment
London
SE1 7UD
Phone: +44 (0)20 7587 6700
Fax: +44 (0)20 7587 6720
Web (en): www.ifaw.org
Email: click for contact form
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