According to a survey commissioned by the New Zealand Electricity Commission, 47% of New Zealanders would consider switching electricity retailers on environmental grounds. Given the recent scrapping of the moratorium on new thermal generation build, could consumer preference become a driver for development of renewable energy in New Zealand?

KEA 3 presents a new report on the interaction of REDD and carbon markets.

The introduction of REDD into carbon markets are show to have profound impacts on the price of carbon, and, consequently, on both Annex I domestic abatement and mitigation within CDM regions.

Please join us for our presentation with Greenpeace International titled "REDD in the carbon market: will it help keep global warming to less than 2 degrees?"in Bonn, Germany on 30 March 2009.

The introduction of incentives to reduce deforestation and degredation (REDD) has been hearalded as an inexpensive means of reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions. IF REDD credits were integrated into post-2012 emissions reductions compliance trading, developing nations could increase their committents by 23 % without increasing compliance costs according to modelling presented in side events at the UNFCCC conference in Poznan Poland (December 2008).