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KOTA KINABALU: An area of 190,051ha of totally protected forests has been allocated to Singapore-based Hoch Standard to carry out its pilot programme to harness carbon credits, says the Conservator of Sabah Forests, Datuk Frederick Kugan.

KOTA KINABALU: A 190,051ha area of totally protected forest has been allocated to Singapore-based Hoch Standard to carry out its pilot programme to harness carbon credit, says Conservator of Sabah Forests Datuk Frederick Kugan.

KOTA KINABALU: The controversial Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA) involving a two-million-hectare of state forest reserve for carbon credit trading cannot move forward as it was legally flawed.

Kota Kinabalu: The cause of the delay in implementing the controversial carbon credit project in Sabah is due to legal and technical flaws in the agreement and not from any “ploy” to derail the project, said legal advisor to the state government Datuk Tengku Fuad Ahmad.

KOTA KINABALU: The controversy over Sabah's Nature Carbon Agreement (NCA) is a major setback for the state in harnessing income from carbon credit sales from its two-million-hectare forest reserve, says an NCA proponent Anuar Abdul Ghani.

Kota Kinabalu: Sri Tanjong Assemblyman Justin Wong urged Sabah Deputy Chief Minister I Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan to clarify the status of the Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA) in Sabah, claiming that Jeffrey had issued contradictory comments from the Chief Minister.

This is the third article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part One and Part Two. Part Four and Part Five will be published later this month. LUMI, Papua New Guinea — When Andrea Babon learned about what a company called Kanaka Management Services (KMS) had been up […]

New revelations around a carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo criticized for its opacity have led to further calls for clarity and transparency about the project. Two international carbon credit project developers purportedly linked to the project have denied any involvement. And a disclosure by the agreement’s primary backer linked an entity registered in a country […]

Sabah has been abuzz with cashing in on carbon credit sales.

Kota Kinabalu: WWF-Malaysia urged the State Government to disclose the designated areas which are part of the initial 600,000 hectares under the Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA).