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Carbon project development

Nature-based carbon,with impact you can evidence.

One of the two project families we develop. Nature-based projects restore forests, soils and coastal systems while removing or avoiding emissions, and they carry the biodiversity and community benefit that makes a credit defensible.

01What we work with

Four systems, each selected for additionality, permanence and evidenced co-benefit.

ARR

Afforestation & reforestation

New and restored forest, with growth measured against a conservative baseline.

REDD+

Avoided deforestation

Protection of standing forest where the threat is real and the baseline defensible.

Soil

Soil carbon

Agricultural practice change, quantified conservatively and sampled properly.

Blue

Blue carbon

Mangrove and coastal systems, dense in carbon and in co-benefit.

02Managing the risk

The scrutiny is fair. We answer it in the design.

Nature-based credits have drawn scrutiny for reversal risk and weak baselines. We do not argue with the critique; we engineer against it.

Conservative baselines, buffer pools, strong and increasingly remote-sensed MRV, and transparent benefit-sharing.

  1. 01

    Conservative baselines

    Set low, so performance is proven rather than assumed.

  2. 02

    Buffer pools

    Credits withheld against reversal, as the registries require.

  3. 03

    Remote-sensed MRV

    Independent verification, increasingly from satellite and aerial data.

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    Benefit-sharing

    Transparent, documented, and evidenced to the community.

A river winding through dense mangrove forest, seen from the air

03Co-benefits

Biodiversity, water and soil health, and community livelihoods.

Aligned to the UN SDGs and evidenced rather than asserted. On a nature-based project, the co-benefit record is not marketing material — it is part of what makes the credit hold.

04Part of

Carbon project development.

Nature-based projects are one of the two families we develop. The other is durable removals, where permanence is measured in centuries. Most serious portfolios hold both.

05Questions

Answered plainly.

The high-integrity ones are, and they remain central to serious portfolios. Design and verification separate the defensible from the rest.

Biodiversity, water and soil health, and community livelihoods, aligned to the UN SDGs.

Through conservative baselines, registry buffer pools, and monitoring that detects loss early enough to act on it.

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