{"id":464417,"date":"2011-07-19T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T14:04:48","slug":"u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"42.6705607477\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.co.tz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanzania Daily News<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)<\/p>\n<p>Finnigan Wa Simbeye<\/p>\n<p>18 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>FARMERS in Uchindile and Mapanda forestry areas in Iringa and Morogoro regions should expect more money from carbon credit exports after Green Resources Limited signed a deal with US based, CarbonNeutral Company Limited to buy from them.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released recently, Green Resources said the new sales agreement signed with CNCL will allow the company and farmers owning forests in its neighbourhood to sell more than 139,358 credits sold last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the voluntary side of the carbon market, Green Resources signed a new exclusive purchase agreement with The CarbonNeutral Company for credits from the next verification of the Uchindile and Mapanda reforestation project,&#8221; the statement read in part.<\/p>\n<p>It added that Uchindile and Mapanda forests projects are the first Agriculture Forestry and other Land Use Voluntary Carbon Standard projects in the world to be registered and receive issuance of VSC credits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This demonstrates the increasing demand of high quality forestry credits,&#8221; the statement signed by Nick Embden, who is GRL&#8217;s Carbon manager and Olav Bjella, the company&#8217;s Resource Director, pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, communities in the same area earned more than 125m\/- after selling carbon credits through GRL which is a subsidiary of Norwegian based Green Resources SA.<\/p>\n<p>The New York based The CarbonNeutral Company is a world leading provider of carbon reduction solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 1997, the company has worked with more than 300 large businesses and thousands of small and medium size companies from 32 countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In all, its 300 plus partners who now include GRL have sequestered more than four million tons of carbon from 300 projects on six continents.<\/p>\n<p>The GRL statement pointed out that its Uchindile and Mapanda project is validated to Carbon Community and Biodiversity Standard (CCBS) and will also undergo verification to the standard this year to demonstrate co-benefits.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107191093.html\" title=\"U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tanzania Daily News (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Finnigan Wa Simbeye 18 July 2011 FARMERS in Uchindile and Mapanda forestry areas in Iringa and Morogoro regions should expect more money from carbon credit exports after Green Resources Limited signed a deal with US based, CarbonNeutral Company Limited to buy from them. In a statement released recently, Green Resources said the new sales agreement signed with CNCL will allow the company and farmers owning forests in its neighbourhood to sell more than 139,358 credits sold last year. &#8220;On the voluntary side of the carbon market, Green Resources signed a new exclusive purchase agreement with The CarbonNeutral Company for credits from the next verification of the Uchindile and Mapanda reforestation project,&#8221; the statement read in part. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Tanzania Daily News (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Finnigan Wa Simbeye 18 July 2011 FARMERS in Uchindile and Mapanda forestry areas in Iringa and Morogoro regions should expect more money from carbon credit exports after Green Resources Limited signed a deal with US based, CarbonNeutral Company Limited to buy from them. In a statement released recently, Green Resources said the new sales agreement signed with CNCL will allow the company and farmers owning forests in its neighbourhood to sell more than 139,358 credits sold last year. &quot;On the voluntary side of the carbon market, Green Resources signed a new exclusive purchase agreement with The CarbonNeutral Company for credits from the next verification of the Uchindile and Mapanda reforestation project,&quot; the statement read in part.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-07-19T14:04:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/\"},\"wordCount\":339,\"commentCount\":0,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/\",\"name\":\"U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-07-19T14:04:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/u-s-firm-to-buy-more-carbon-credits\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"U.S Firm to Buy More Carbon Credits - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Tanzania Daily News (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Finnigan Wa Simbeye 18 July 2011 FARMERS in Uchindile and Mapanda forestry areas in Iringa and Morogoro regions should expect more money from carbon credit exports after Green Resources Limited signed a deal with US based, CarbonNeutral Company Limited to buy from them. 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