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Guatemala’s GAO fights climate change with rubber carbon credits

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Grupo Agroindustrial de Occidente (GAO), a Guatemalan company, announced the first sale of carbon credits for natural rubber plantations.

The sale was secured by the Swiss company First Climate and Pica de Hule, a GAO company.

The project consists of 2,500 hectares of rubber-tree plantations that will mitigate climate change.

Original source (in Spanish):

El Periódico