Projects
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) projects
We are working with large landowners and agricultural plantation corporations with a goal of permanent conservation and avoided deforestation of tropical forests and peatland soils, to benefit biodiversity, to create local employment and develop sustainable agroforestry opportunities, and to avoid CO2 emissions associated with deforestation. Our projects seek to conserve forests slated for conversion to industrial rubber, palm oil, acacia, soy, or corn plantations, and may involve ARR components to reforest operating industrial plantations, restore native forest, and develop sustainable agroforestry on degraded forest lands within the project area. We identify threatened lands located near our successful projects to conserve as part of a grouped project. We are also working with local groups on the restoration of carbon-dense tropical peat swamp forest ecosystems, with the goal to benefit biodiversity, create local employment, and to avoid CO2 emissions associated with deforestation, mass fires, and the continuing degradation of the project area’s peatland soils.
Afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) projects
Our blue-carbon Indonesian mangrove restoration project has the potential to become the largest mangrove restoration project in Indonesia and potentially the world. The project’s objective is permanent reforestation and assisted natural regeneration of degraded mangroves to benefit biodiversity through increased habitat and wildlife corridors, to provide coastal protection against sea level rise and devastating storm surges, to create local employment and alternative revenue sources for local communities, and to sequester CO2. The project will restore thousands of hectares of degraded mangroves and generate millions of “blue carbon” VCUs over its 45-year life span. Along with our local and technical partners, we completed pilot plantings in several locations, and working with community groups along the coastlines and river deltas throughout Indonesia suitable for mangrove restoration. The future expansion of the project will have impact across the Indonesian archipelago. The project is designed as a grouped project under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) to restore degraded mangroves throughout the coastlines of Indonesia. The project is also being designed and developed under the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) to achieve the maximum sustainable economic impact on the communities and to best preserve these vulnerable biodiverse regions, and to comply with Indonesian carbon implementation regulatory standards.
