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Climate Change Project
In 2007, New Perimeter announced a new project, its Climate Change Project, in tandem with DLA Piper's Global Sustainability Initiative. The Climate Change Project is designed to enable small groups of subsistence farmers in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to generate carbon credits through afforestation and reforestation that can be sold as credits to offset greenhouse gas emissions. The result, expected to be realized over several years, will be to reduce the devastating effects of deforestation, drought, and famine in these areas of extreme poverty by providing long-term revenue for the small group participants through the sale of greenhouse gas credits.
New Perimeter, through its global presence and alliances around the world, will provide a range of pro bono legal services to the small groups of subsistence farmers in coordination with the International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST). New Perimeter will grapple with the complex legal issues facing the subsistence farmers including, land tenure and ownership issues, gender equality and the contractual mechanisms needed to create and protect the rights of farmers in generating and selling the carbon credits to global customers.
For more information, please visit www.tist.org.
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