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Global Green Carbon Corporation Signs Memorandum of Understanding with UCLA Center for Tropical Research - GGC Collaborates with Top Biodiversity Scientists on Forestry Projects

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Ventura, CA – June 16th, 2011 – Global Green Carbon Corporation (“Global Green Carbon”, “GGC” or the “Company”) announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Center for Tropical Research (“CTR”) within the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

The UCLA Center for Tropical Research is a multidisciplinary research facility which focuses on the scientific processes that underlie and maintain the diversity of life in the tropics. The goal of CTR to apply the scientific knowledge generated by the center to advance conservation efforts, protect endangered species and preserve threatened habitats. Global Green Carbon is a world-wide project developer of carbon financed AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use) initiatives. GGC’s unique integrated land management strategy not only addresses one of the primary causes of global warming, deforestation, but also rehabilitates degraded ecosystems, conserves bio-diversity, regenerates dwindling water resources and provides employment for marginalized communities.

The MoU outlines the relationship between the CTR and GGC for establishing projects focused on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+), Afforestation/Reforestation (A/R), Improved Forest Management (IFM) and agroforestry in critical global hotspots.

Dr. Thomas B. Smith, Founder and Director of CTR, stated, “GGC is a leader and innovator within the carbon forestry field. Applying our science and research to their development and market expertise creates a rock solid foundation to co-develop solid carbon-financed forestry projects. Our aim is to enhance biodiversity in threatened regions through-out the tropics through habitat rehabilitation and preservation.”

“Our relationship with Dr. Smith and the CTR brings decades of scientific research focused on tropical biodiversity conservation to our project development process”, commented Kirsten McGregor, President of GGC. “The Center and its scientists are among the most distinguished in their respective fields throughout the world. Being able to collaborate with them is a great leap forward in establishing the credibility of REDD+ projects as well as other AFOLU initiatives.”

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Global Green Carbon Corporation (GGC) is a world-wide project developer of carbon financed AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use) initiatives. Global Green Carbon’s unique integrated land management strategy not only addresses one of the primary causes of global warming, but also rehabilitates degraded ecosystems, conserves bio-diversity, regenerates dwindling water resources and provides employment for forest communities. For more information, visit www.globalgreencarbon.com.

The Center for Tropical Research (CTR) was founded by Dr. Thomas B. Smith in 1997 as a research unit at San Francisco State University (SFSU). In January 2002, CTR moved from SFSU to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to become a formal organizational research unit of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (formerly Institute of the Environment). This move enabled CTR to expand its multidisciplinary scope and impact. Funding support from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, CALFED, the National Geographic Society, USAID, ECOFAC, NSERC, the Rothschild Foundation, the Turner Foundation and other sources has enabled CTR to expand its research programs to more than 15 countries on four continents. CTR's outstanding international cadre of senior scientists, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students now numbers more than 155, with dozens of alumni from countries around the world.

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