This report examines the progress of forest carbon markets in during 2009 and provides historical prospective on the establishment of the markets and their growth.
The Ecosystem Marketplace report, "State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2009: Taking Root & Branching Out," is based on research involving more than 100 market participants whose work encompasses 230 projects that have generated credits in 40 countries for over 20 years.
The responses from the market participants illustrated the impact of carbon finance on more than 2 million hectares of forests.
The Ecosystem Marketplace released the report with support from the World Bank BioCarbon Fund, Biological Capital, Ecosystem Restoration Associates and Baker McKenzie, as well as funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the Surdna Foundation.
The report can be downloaded as pdf from Ecosystem Marketplace at
http://moderncms.ecosystemmarketplace.com/repository/moderncms_documents/SFCM.pdf
Ecosystem Marketplace Managing Editor Steve Zwick's article on the report is available at GreenBiz.com.