Green Pulse Podcast: Forest carbon offsets – the view from a project developer

Indonesia's Rimba Raya project developers explain how rigorous the verification and auditing process is. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from biodiversity conservation to climate change.

Forests soak up large amounts of carbon dioxide and halting deforestation and replanting forests make sense as a strategy to fight climate change – and save nature, too. Investors who do this want to earn a return for their efforts by selling tradeable “offsets” representing a tonne of CO2 removed, or which avoided being emitted, such as by protecting a forest under threat from being cleared.

So what are these projects really like on the ground? How difficult are they and how much work goes into creating and running them? In this episode, we speak to Todd Lemons and Jim Procanik, who developed the Rimba Raya project in Central Kalimantan in Indonesia more than a decade ago. The project saved a large area of peat swamp forest from being chopped down to grow oil palms.

Messrs Lemons and Procanik explain more about Rimba Raya, the forest area and the projects to help save the forest and boost local livelihoods.4:05 The project’s impact on the forest area12:57 There are fears forest carbon projects can be damaged by fire or logging. How to address this?Listen to Pt 1 - Forest carbon offsets - scam or climate saviour?:

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