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Selva de Mataven REDD+
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Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD+
Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary
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Southern Cardamom REDD+
The Mai Ndombe REDD+
The Kasigau Corridor REDD+
Panama Native Species Reforestation Project
Guanaré Forest Plantations on Degraded Grasslands
Iberpapel Silvopastoral System on Degraded Land
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Purchasing Carbon Offsets helps companies compensate for their residual carbon footprint by supporting projects worldwide that reduce carbon emissions. Many Carbon Offset projects contribute to the improvement of life for people across the globe.
Bundled Wind Power in Tamilnadu
Caparispisan Wind Energy Project
Musi Hydropower Plant in Bengkulu
Orange Charanka Solar Power
Solar Power Project at Bhadla, Rajasthan
The Negros Island Solar Power Inc.
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Support the development of new renewable energy production that fights climate change and contributes to local development, employment and access to energy.
Improved Cookstoves in Ugandan Communities
Clean Cook Stoves in Sub-Saharan Africa
Support projects across the globe that empower local communities to reduce their carbon footprint while improving day-to-day life.
Without project: forests would be destroyed in order to make way for cattle ranching, unsustainable agriculture, illegal crops and mining. Project purpose: to develop an integrated management system of forests and lands in the Mataven Indigenous Reserve, to ensure its sustainability, and to mitigate threats of its conservation, particularly avoiding deforestation through the implementation of a REDD+ project. The Indigenous Reservation is located east of the high plain Orinoco Colombian region, a transition belt between the savannas of the Orinoco and the Amazon forests.
Project benefits: Approximately 600 indigenous were trained to patrol and guard the forest Communication and information systems established (workshops, reports, posters, newsletters and trips to the area Food security program and agroforestry systems implemented for the communities Programs to tend to the most vulnerable members of the community such as elders Youth in action program
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(Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation: REDD+)
Without project: destruction of a highly biodiverse spot to plant oil palm. The project and adjacent Tanjung Puting National Park are surrounded by oil palm plantations, the primary deforestation agent in Borneo and throughout Indonesia. Project purpose: to preserve 64,500 hectares of carbon and biodiversity-rich lowland peat forest.
Project benefits: Protection of 120 threatened and endangered species Support for 10,000 forest-dependant community members living in and along the boundaries of the project World’s largest initiative to protect High Conservation Value (HCV) tropical lowland peat swamp forests. Significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions (130m+ VCU’s over 30 years ) Protecting the endangered Orangutan of Borneo and other IUCN Red List species.
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Without project: deforestation would occur to facilitate agricultural development, as well as unsustainable resource extraction (including hunting, logging and fishing). Project purpose: to protect 166,983 ha of forest in the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, home of the indigenous Bunong people.
Project benefits: Conservation of 950 wild species (75 globally threatened), including the world’s largest populations black-shanked douc and yellow-cheeked crested gibbon, Asian elephant and many other species. Sustainable development of local communities, through securing legal title to their traditional lands Carbon offsets benefit sharing which provides funding to community-chosen and led development projects
Without project: destruction would occur of the forest due to slash and burn cultivation, tiger and elephant hunting and further threats to the area accelerated by massive Chinese investment in Cambodia as part of their national Belt and Road Initiative. Project purpose: to preserve one of the last unfragmented rainforests remaining in Southeast Asia (497,000 hectares). To secure the significant ecosystem services that it provides; the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot (wildlife reserve ), major carbon sink and the region’s most important watershed. To develop the livelihoods of local communities.
Project benefits: Carbon emission reductions and removals (avg 3,000,000 tCO2e/y) Protection of critical habitat from anthropogenic and natural threats, such as poaching, human-wildlife conflict and drought. Training and support of 98 rangers and a 25-person community anti-poaching unit to stop illegal activity. Support Eco-Tourism and participatory land use planning (to reduce drivers of deforestation Improved agricultural methods Alternative income sources Creation of new employment Environmental law enforcement
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Without project: logging practices, legal and illegal (91 of 156 logging contracts suspended to address corruption in the sector due to unmet environmental standards and severe ecosystems damage) Furthermore, communities in these areas were largely ignored by the logging companies and received little or no economic benefit. Project purpose: to protect 300,000 hectares of critical bonobo and forest elephant habitat within the world’s second-largest intact rainforest and some of the most important wetlands on the planet, the Congo Basin.
Project benefits: Reduction of the principal drivers of forest and biodiversity loss Community prosperity through investments into the surrounding local communities, which are among the most impoverished in the world. Such investments include: Building and renovating schools providing healthcare services (such as access to immunizations) Supporting food security and nutrition (such as through agricultural diversification) Providing capacity building activities that empower local communities
photos used with permission from Everland Marketing, photos taken by Filip C Agoo
Without project: Between Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks a bruised, balding and barren land with fields grazed to dust, poachers easily accessing the ranch and trees vanishing along a critical rainwater basin. Project purpose: to protect over 200,000 hectares of dryland forest with over 11,000 wild elephants that live in this ecosystem (2000+ of those elephants call Rukinga their permanent home.
Project benefits: 1.7 million tCO2 emissions reductions/y over the next 30 years Social programs that impact over 116,000 local people Long-term jobs that replace unsustainable sources of income such as poaching, subsistence agriculture and illegal tree harvesting Market-driven solution to wildlife conservation through an expansive community-led/based conservation model, with profound and lasting impact Exceptional biodiversity and climate benefits (incredibly diverse population of wildlife including more than 20 species of bats, over 50 species of large mammals, over 300 species of birds and important populations of IUCN Red List species, including over 2,000 African Elephants, African Wild Dog, Cheetah, and Grevy’s Zebra.
Without project: Degraded and abandoned cattle pastures.Originally a lowland rainforest area, it had been logged, farmed, and grazed extensively over the past 200 years. Project purpose: to sustainably reforest the pacific degraded lowlands of Panama. The strategy was to purchase lands and employ local people in the forest restoration work.
Project benefits: Over 50 native rainforest species and one commercial timber species planted (teak) Exceptionally diverse forest cover for a reforestation A portion of the timber is sustainably harvested over the 20–30-year management period. Project’s emissions reductions are generated by the remaining forest. Local employment generation
photos used with permission from Getty Images
This photo is used with permission from Getty Images
Without project: land under extensive grazing by beef cattle ranching for more than 300 years. Project purpose: To reforest 21,298 ha in the Eastern part of Uruguay. Under this project, the land has been forested with Eucalyptus plantations to grow high-value, long-lived timber products that will sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Project benefits: New job opportunities and value creation to the area. Carbon emission reductions (127 000 tonnes CO2/year).
Without project: anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG’s) emissions from the generation-mix of power plants connected to the Indian electricity grid, which is mainly dominated by thermal/fossil fuel-based power plants. Project purpose: to generate clean electricity through renewable solar energy for sale to the local grid.
Project benefits: Reduced carbon emissions (86,988 tCO2e/y) Communities exposed to fewer air pollutants Affordable cleaner solar electricity Employment generation
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Without project: 732,874 MWh/year of power from fossil fuels to power the Indian grid in the region. Project purpose: to generate power through renewable solar energy for sale to the state grid.
Project benefits: Reduced carbon emissions (694,471 tCO2e/y ) Communities exposed to fewer air pollutants Affordable cleaner solar electricity Employment generation
Without project: 112 GWh of power from the fossil fuel dominated power grid in the region. Project purpose: to install two solar power plants with a combined capacity of 80MW. The plants are both greenfield stand-alone projects which provide power to the grid.
Project benefits: Reduced carbon emissions 66000 tCO2e/y Communities exposed to fewer air pollutants Cleaner solar electricity Employment generation
Without project: 4.5 TWh of power from the fossil fuel dominated power grid in the region. Project purpose: to install 396 wind turbines in the state of Tamil Nadu in Southern India, to bring together several investors with small power requirements to invest in wind power.
Project benefits: Reduced carbon emissions (417,392tCO2eq/y) Communities exposed to fewer air pollutants Cleaner wind electricity Employment generation
Without project: electricity supply to the national grid dominated by fossil fuels. Project purpose: 27 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 81 MW. The produced electricity is supplied to the national grid.
Project benefits: Reduced carbon emissions (153 000 tCO2e/y) Communities exposed to fewer air pollutants Cleaner wind electricity Employment generation
Without project: further use of carbon intensive electricity for the Sumatra grid. Project purpose: to generate hydroelectricity with a true run-off river type project of 210 MW capacity.
Project benefits: Reduced carbon emissions (953128 tCO2/year) Communities exposed to fewer air pollutants Affordable cleaner hydro-electricity Employment generation
Without project: Around 90% of households in Uganda use charcoal and or firewood for cooking (major deforestation cause) with contaminating traditional cooking stoves. Project purpose: reduce the GHG emissions by promoting the wide distribution and use of improved cookstoves in Uganda
Project benefits: Reduced pressure on the remaining forest. Healthier children and mothers exposed to fewer air pollutants. Reduced risk of childhood pneumonia, cancer and other respiratory diseases. Less fuel usage (scarce resource or expensive to buy). Reduces cooking time.
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Without project: Ghanaian families cook with charcoal made from unsustainably harvested wood, which generates significant GHG emissions and health risks. Project purpose: reduce the GHG emissions by promoting the design, manufacture, distribution, and use of Efficient Charcoal Stoves (ECS).
Project benefits: Reduced pressure on the remaining forest. Healthier children and mothers exposed to fewer air pollutants. Reduced risk of childhood pneumonia, cancer and other respiratory diseases. Less fuel usage (scarce resource or expensive to buy). Reduce cooking time.
