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Pioneering carbon credits project emerges in Tsabong

Unlimited supply: Botswana receives one of the world’s highest levels of sunshine each year
Unlimited supply: Botswana receives one of the world’s highest levels of sunshine each year

The country’s first carbon credit project is taking shape in Tsabong, carrying the community into a multibillion dollar global market and offering the potential to transform the way in which citizens extract value from their land.

BusinessWeek has established that Gazelle Ecosolutions, a tech and environment firm with global founding partners, has finalised a proof of concept at the Tsabong project site which demonstrates that the carbon credits can be put on the global market.

A carbon credit or offset credit is a transferrable financial instrument (i.e. a derivative of an underlying commodity) certified by governments or independent certification bodies to represent an emission reduction that can then be bought or sold.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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