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New Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…The government of Sabah state in Malaysian Borneo will continue to move forward with an opaque nature conservation agreement despite concerns raised by the United Nations.
Sabah’s forests are home to an array of rare and threatened animals, like this red leaf monkey . Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Governments do have a responsibility to ensure that FPIC occurs, said David Boyd, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and the environment. “Definitely, the state of Sabah needs development funds,” she said. But, she added, “We also want to be consulted. We have our own view of development.”to fuel economic development and replace funding from more environmentally destructive industries like logging, and accuse the agreement’s detractors of impeding progress in Sabah. Adrian Lasimbang said those projections were “absurd.”
Verra and other certifiers also require that carbon project developers prove that the credits offered for sale represent carbon that would not have been otherwise sequestered from the atmosphere. Proving that “additionality” in Sabah’s totally protected reserves, which already benefit from the state’s most stringent regulations on use, could be difficult or impossible, Adrian Lasimbang added.
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