Clean Air Action Corporation Receives CDM Validation for Their Award Winning Environmental Initiative, TIST
Summary
CAAC president, Ben Henneke, commented, “The validation we just received is a major step forward for TIST farmers in India and Africa who have already planted more than 7 million trees.TIST’s goal is to address environmental change and poverty by providing men and women in developing countries with new sources of income from their trees, by connecting them to the global carbon market.The data, including pictures, is uploaded onto a central database using cell phones or Internet, and can be viewed by the public at TIST currently works in India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.The data, including pictures, is uploaded onto a central database using cell phones or Internet, and can be viewed by the public at www.TIST.org TIST currently works in India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.TIST plans to expand to a number of new countries over the next five years to respond to the requests of farmers and governments to help reverse the damage of deforestation.CDM is a program under the United Nations international treaty for global climate change, the Kyoto Protocol.