Forest carbon projects are the newest craze: A blessing or curse?
Carbon sampling team from Wildlife Work. The impact of the team's work is huge, especially as they have to be incredibly precise whilst recording the details of the tree population, which is then analysed to generate carbon emissions reductions. PHOTO | WILDLIFE WORKS
Business and Technology Reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
Nation Media Group
Carbon offsetting is increasingly becoming a focal source of climate finance and will be a key discussion point at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi early next month, to set the agenda for the upcoming COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
In Taita Taveta County in Kenya’s Coast region, the Kasigau Corridor Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) project one of the ventures making millions from carbon offsetting through community-led conservation, was the world’s first project of its kind and the largest in the region, covering over 200,000 hectares of land, mostly communally owned dryland forests that were previously used as livestock rearing and fattening ranches.
