Mongabay: Carbon credits generated by forest conservation activities in tropical countries could play a role in California's cap-and-trade program, helping mitigate climate change and providing benefits to local communities, said a panel of experts on Friday.
The panel, known as the REDD+ Offset Working Group, issued a set of draft recommendations on how the states of Acre in Brazil and Chiapas in Mexico could link efforts to reduce deforestation with the State of Californias new cap-and-trade system....