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The Achievement of Inpang Community Network under Participation in Global Warming Mitigation through Forest Sector
Teerawong Laosuwan1*, Pornchai Uttaruk2, Usa Klinhom2, Charlie Navanugraha3, Chetphong Butthep4, Jay H. Samek5, and David L. Skole5
The carbon credit of Inpang is the research project on carbon credit accreditation with farmer’s network from five provinces from the Northeast of Thailand joining the project; and it is also the collaboration between Faculty of Sciences, Mahasarakham University, National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), Michigan State University from the USA, and Inpang’s Farmer Network. Under this research scheme, the research team and farmers have conducted an intensive study on the biomass of the trees in the targeted area, and it is also included the application of the Remote Sensing Technology and GIS and the research team has also developed the database system of the studied area being used for the preparation of Carbon Credit Accounting of Thailand to present to the Chicago Climate Exchange in Chicago, the USA. As a result, 75,000 tons of carbon credit calculated out of the 625 rais of the farmers joining the project. The carbon credit can be then sold in the market for 4.25 US dollars and the farmer’s network of In-Pang has received the amount of 37,000 US dollars or approximately 1,000,000 baht for the sold carbon credit during the year 2009 and 2010. This is the first carbon credit sale for Thailand and for ASEAN countries.