Dr. Dick Rice, PhD - Chief Conservation Officer for Save Your World Speaks in Monterey, CA

Dr. Dick Rice, PhD, Chief Conservation Officer for Save Your World was a recent guest speaker for two classes in Monterey, California on Monday November 2, 2010 at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS is a graduate school affiliated with Middlebury College), one at a class on conservation agreements, a subject that Dick is an expert in having created the World’s first conservation concession agreement, and one as a special speaker at the Environmental Speaker Series http://www.miis.edu/academics/programs/environmentalpolicy/speakers.

As Chief Conservation Officer for Save Your World, Dick advises Save Your World and encourages other companies regarding conservation opportunities around the world to further support conservation concessions and other initiatives to protect the environment worldwide.
Dicks Comments:

“In early December environment ministers and government officials from around the world will meet for two weeks in Copenhagen to try to iron out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the current global climate treaty. It is widely expected that the final treaty will include forest protection in the tropics as accepted tool for fighting climate change. That’s important since deforestation and other land uses account for about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire world transportation sector combined. Deforestation is also one of the primary causes of the global biodiversity crisis, with roughly 13 million ha, an area the size of Alabama cleared each year.

This issue is important to all of us since projects like the Guyana Conservation Concession could become candidates for funding as carbon offsets. Forest carbon projects are also expected to be allowed under climate legislation passed in the US (they are front and center in both the bill passed by the House of Representatives last summer and the current bill being considered by the Senate).

Conservation agreements are a great context for forest carbon projects because you have to have incentives in place to conserve the forest in order for an area to qualify for funding as a carbon offset and that is exactly what conservation agreements do. It can take an enormous amount of time and energy to put those agreements in place, so where they already exist, they are a precious commodity in terms of possible future carbon investments.”

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