Selling Carbon Credits to End Deforestation

A project in Mashonaland West that aims to avoid deforestation has since 2014 sold 1,5 million carbon credits to global buyers for over $2 million.

The funds have been directed towards programmes that help communities cope with climate change, while neutralising the emission of dangerous climate-changing gases.

Operational since 2011, the Kariba REDD+ project, Zimbabwe’s biggest privately-funded project covering 750 000 hectares across the four rural district councils of Mbire, Hurungwe, Nyaminyami and Binga, is changing lives through conservation farming, bee-keeping and wildlife conservation.

Its key objective is to preserve Zimbabwe’s natural forests, an important absorber of potent carbon gases.

http://www.herald.co.zw/kariba-redd-changes-lives-but-poor-carbon-prices-threaten-viability/

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