Forest Carbon Asia Launch Announcement

[Anuradha Vanniarachchy]

Dear colleagues,

Sorry for cross posting.

We are pleased to announce the launching of Forest Carbon Asia
(www.forestcarbonasia.org), an independent website dedicated to
providing up-to-date and objective information and analysis on forest
carbon policies, players and developments from and for the Asian
region.

The website aims to serve as an information and resource hub for
forest carbon/REDD+ in Asia- providing current news and views from the
media, a categorized library of relevant publications, vacancy and
event announcements, directories of forest carbon players and links to
other useful resources for convenient reference and networking. It
also provides regularly-updated synopses of the science, current
global policy and financing developments, projects on the ground and
quality standards.

If you or your organisation wish to be listed as a forest carbon/REDD+
player (http://www.forestcarbonasia.org/players/) in Asia, please feel
free to submit your details for posting. Details requested vary
slightly depending on the category you belong to (example: project
developer, verifier, bilateral support agency). If you wish to add a
new forest carbon/REDD+ project or pilot site (http://
www.forestcarbonasia.org/fc-updates/projects-on-the-ground/) in Asia,
kindly fill out the form on the projects page.

Other main features of the Forest Carbon Asia website are country
profiles, in-house articles, and research briefs and reports which
will provide country overviews, delve into the key issues and cover
important developments in the region. Readers can interact online and
contribute their own information and material for posting. The website
seeks to promote open and free information sharing among forest carbon
players across and beyond the Asian region.

Forest Carbon Asia's mission is to raise awareness and understanding
about forest carbon-related issues, and promote sustainable forest
carbon/REDD+ activities and investments in Asia that are also good for
the environment and the local communities. Through this platform, we
hope to engender a healthy and critical debate and move talks and
action forward in a positive manner.
We hope that you find the site useful and would be very happy to
receive your feedback.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Unna Chokkalingam & S. Anuradha Vanniarachchy
Forest Carbon Asia
Mobile Lao PDR: +856 20 55504866
Mobile Sri Lanka : +94 772 226405
Email: unn...@forestcarbonasia.org
Email: anura...@forestcarbonasia.org
Website: www.forestcarbonasia.org