 multitude of problems face our planet. More people live in poverty now than at any other time in history. Rising greenhouse gas emissions pose a dangerous experiment for our atmosphere and threaten human and natural communities. The diversity of life on Earth is dwindling as native habitats are converted for human use. These environmental and social challenges cannot be solved in isolation. Designing resilient actions that address multiple global problems simultaneously is a pressing challenge for humans in the 21st century.
Given the magnitude of these problems, is there anything we can do? A new global alliance thinks there is.
The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) is a partnership
between leading companies, NGOs and research institutes seeking to promote
integrated solutions to land management around the world. With this goal in
mind, the CCBA has developed voluntary standards to help design and identify
land management projects that simultaneously minimize climate change,
support sustainable development and conserve biodiversity.
BREAKING NEWS
Version 2.0 Draft
Second Edition of CCB Standards available for public comment (October 2008)
The Juma Reserve, in the Amazon, is the first one in Brazil to receive
international certification for avoided deforestation (October 2008)
Merrill Lynch inks massive deal
for CCB carbon reported in Ecosystem Marketplace (February 2008)
CCB validated Sumatran avoided
deforestation project reported in Bloomberg News (February 2008)
CCBA and project developers announce first
avoided deforestation project to achieve CCB Standards (February
2008)
CCB Standards featured in the
Economist as ‘likely to survive the winnowing of offset norms’ (August
2007)
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