| In 2006, the nonprofit organization World Vision started helping people in Ethiopia plant trees, and it funded the project by selling carbon offsets for the roughly 22,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide that those trees mop up each year. But World Vision isn’t an environmental group; it’s a humanitarian aid organization, and it launched the forest-carbon project as an environmental means to achieve humanitarian ends.
It worked. The organization’s new impact report finds the tree-planting effort has created more than 2,000 jobs while restoring 12 water springs and increasing soil fertility for four out of five families. The result is a dramatic increase in food security...............................................Full Article: Source |