WWF partnership to monitor, manage carbon
The World Wildlife Fund announced today that it is teaming with several other organisations to develop a system to measure, monitor and manage carbon in a wide variety of environments.
Other groups joining the Carbon Benefits Project are Michigan State University, the World Agroforestry Center and the Center of International Forestry Research.
The new programme, part of the Global Environment Facility and United Nations Environment Programme’s Carbon Benefits Project, aims to help the world’s poorest people in the most vulnerable regions to benefit from carbon sequestration efforts.
The Carbon Benefits Project seeks to solve a persistent problem: how to measure terrestrial carbon, especially on complex landscapes. The innovative and cost-effective system will integrate remote sensing technology and analysis, ground-based measurement, and rigorous statistical analysis.
“This project will offer a set of tools to help farmers, forest managers, and others better protect their land, increase productivity, and do this in a way that will help fight climate change,” said Ginette Hemley, WWF’s Senior Vice President for Conservation Strategy.
“We anticipate that the methodology and tools will be adopted by a number of institutions and will help establish a new international standard,” added David Reed, WWF’s Vice President of Multilateral Relations.
