New Agro-Forestry Law Shifts Carbon Credit Titles to Ethiopian Landowners

A newly amended directive has stripped away centralized state oversight in favor of legal protections and free market autonomy for local forest developers. In a major regulatory pivot that radically transforms the economics of climate mitigation, the Ministry of Agriculture has enacted the Forest Carbon Trading (Amendment) Directive No. 1141/2026, with the aim of recognizing […]

Original source: The Reporter Ethiopia