World Bank: Registering UN forestry projects is too complex
Implementing forest protection schemes must be made easier for developers and governments if sector is to expand, report says
The World Bank has warned that the complicated processes that afforestation and reforestation projects have to adhere to in order to qualify for the UN's planned forest-based carbon trading system could...
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