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As forests fall, carbon credit plan faces collapse
Community forest chiefs and rights groups in Oddar Meanchey province say logging is now so rampant they have finally given up hope that a U.N.-backed scheme to generate millions of dollars worth of carbon credits for the area and the country will ever get off ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-forests-fall-carbon-credit-plan-faces-collapse-59938/
Carbon Credits Ready for Sale in Oddar Meanchey Forest
Cambodia’s first verified carbon credit program is up and running in the remote province of Oddar Meanchey. But experts say there are limited carbon credit buyers, and illegal deforestation remains a major threat to the stability to the project. ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/carbon-credits-ready-for-sale-in-oddar-meanchey-forest/1827513.html
Cambodia’s Carbon Credit Scheme Still Not Making Gains
Cambodia’s only U.N.-backed carbon trading scheme is still nowhere near making any money for communities and logging in the area continues to threaten the very forests supposed to generate tens of millions of dollars over the next 30 years, community representatives and officials in charge ...
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-carbon-credit-scheme-still-not-making-gains-43865/
A Troubled Start for Cambodia’s Carbon Credits
Since 2007, the NGO Pact has been working with the government to turn 68,000 hectares of forest in Oddar Meanchey province into a moneymaking venture for the state just by keeping trees in the area standing. ...
Zsombor Peter and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/a-troubled-start-for-cambodias-carbon-credits-31277/
