APN Newsletter, Volume 16, Issue 3

 

Learn more about our project as well as read an APN-funded participant's feedback/testimony on page 17!

 

 

The State News

 

Planting trees across the world, MSU's Carbon2Markets, or C2M, program has gained praise from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research for attempting to raise the standard of living in developing countries, while slowing down global warming.

 

APN Evaluation Report 2005-2010

 

The Asian Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) awards project with "Outstanding" recognition during their Second Strategic Phase Program Review for the period 2005-2010. GOES/C2M carbon markets project in Southeast Asia (ARCP2007-09NSY) was the only project to receive the award in APN Thematic Area "Cross Cutting Issues and Science-Policy Linkages". See page 20 of the document!

 

APN Quarterly Newsletter; April 2010, Volume 16, Issue 2

 

APN agroforestry carbon offsets project in Southeast Asia (ARCP2009-09NSY-Skole) and REDD Workshop in Indonesia (CBA2009-03NSY) highlighted in the APN quarterly newsletter. See page 16 of the document!

 

GOES, Department of Forestry, MSU sign first ever MSU cooperative agreement with Vietnam Forestry University (VFU) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The agreement will focus on capacity building and training in remote sensing, GIS, and forestry carbon. Colleagues at VFU have developed the first approved small-scale A/R CDM project in the world and will work with Carbon2Markets to establish other forest carbon offset projects in Vietnam.

 

Office of Bio-based Technologies

 

A team of MSU scientists is combining sustainable forest management with emerging carbon markets in a unique effort to help small farmers in developing countries grow crops that will boost their standards of living and slow climate change.

 

 

MSU News Special Report

 

Michigan State University is a world leader in using environmental research aimed at fighting poverty and slowing climate change.

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MSU Today

Satellite imaging to track world carbon use page 11

 

Earlier this year, the World Wildlife Fund selected MSU to partner in a $5 million, 18-month project to develop systems to measure, monitor, and manage carbon in landscapes worldwide.

 

MAES Futures Magazine

Standing on the shoulders of giants (pg7, bottom)

 

Carbon2Markets uses basic and applied research to simultaneously fight global warming and poverty, improving peoples lives and helping to protect the planet.

 

International Studies International Magazine

Carbon assessment project picked up by the United Nations, pg 34

 

An MSU-led project focusing on carbon assessment in Asia and Africa was integrated into the U.N. Environmental Programme's Carbon Benefits Project this year.

 

MSU Alumni Magazine

Carbon2Markets page 38

 

Michigan State University Professor of Forestry David Skole has been studying climate change for 25 years.