To win certification, Rimba Raya has to show that the forest is under genuine threat: no point in giving carbon credits for conserving trees and peatland that were not in danger anyway.
Once the coursework is done, cultural sites can win certification by launching an informational Web page in Mandarin, issuing Mandarin maps and guidebooks, and accepting China UnionPay, Chinese travelers' favored credit card.
The resort has won certification from Green Globe, an international sustainability monitoring service.
In 2005, after adopting stringent standards, the company won certification to provide its highest-end products to the European Union, Japan and Korea.
Something much more hopeful also happened in December 2008 -- the start of contract talks between UC and PRO/UAW, the union that had won certification the preceding month to represent the more than 5000 postdocs on UC's 10 campuses.
In comments on Monday in the city of El Alto to mark the beginning of the school year, Morales said that when he was a union organizer in the province of Chapare he noticed that those who won certifications as the highest-achieving students were disproportionately female.
To win C.B.R.N. certification, respirators must accept filters and cartridges with the same 40-millimeter thread, similar to the base of a standard light bulb.
A striking Bugatti-blue monohull design, Better Place holds the distinction of being the world's first sailboat to win Green Star certification from RINA, the Registro Italiano Navale, based in Genoa, Italy.
Even if demand, which has lagged in the South and other Sun Belt states, picks up, the Agriculture Department requires a three-year waiting period for farms to win organic certification.
His company is beginning to mull the shape of the next-generation A320, which is not due until around 2017. "Do you do an interim solution," he said, based on the plane's current design, "or a final solution" that could dramatically save fuel, but require more-extensive testing to win government certification.
Tavistock's offices and town-center building are the first in Florida to win the certification, which has been awarded to about 250 projects worldwide during the last three years.
