Standards and codes that make land-based carbon credits credible.
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The codes, registries and standards that underpin credible land-based carbon credits — the assurance layer behind nature-based carbon markets. A reference lens for anyone designing or buying into a carbon scheme.
Sources: PES & Nature-Based Solutions
How many collected practices carry evidence for each of the project's value sources — surfacing where the design has thin precedent.
| Value source | Practices with evidence |
|---|---|
| carbon | 34 / 36 |
| sustainability | 0 / 36 |
| governance | 34 / 36 |
Abu Dhabi's environment agency has planted tens of millions of mangroves since 2015, expanding cover to roughly 17,600 …
PNG's first UNFCCC REDD+ pilot: 164 clans (~15,000 people) hold Hunstein Range forest under Verified Carbon Standard credits …
Since 1999, TIST has organised smallholder farmers into self-governing 'small groups' across Kenya, Uganda (incl. Soroti), Tanzania and …
On 6 December 2022 Tierra del Fuego's legislature unanimously created a 10,341 km2 protected area over Península Mitre, …
A UK Defra-funded, SAERI-led three-year project (2023-2026) is measuring GHG fluxes at 20+ peatland sites across the Falkland …
Since 2010, Armenian NGO FPWC has leased land near Khosrov Forest State Reserve to build the 30,300 ha …
Since 2021, PAMS Foundation and Trees for All have signed 30-year leases with 100+ farmers in Tanzania's Nguru …
Since 2022, Nhaumue and Mangunde communities in Chibabava District have restored native Miombo woodland under Kukumuty, the first …
The UK's government-backed standard for woodland-creation carbon: validated projects are predicted to sequester ~13 MtCO2 over their lifetime, …
Since 2008, the Rowallan Alton Māori Incorporation has kept 738 ha of temperate rainforest near Fiordland National Park …
KKI Warsi's Plan Vivo-certified village forest project protects 5,000+ ha of primary rainforest in Jambi with 5 communities; …
California's CARB cap-and-trade offset market has credited ~74 improved-forest-management projects with 130M+ carbon credits since 2013 — but …
The Nature Conservancy has rewetted 37,000+ acres of pocosin peatland at Pocosin Lakes NWR, NC, and with TerraCarbon …
Under a September 2023 decree enabling voluntary ecological compensation, Finland recorded one of its first private biodiversity-credit deals …
Since 2013 the Indigenous Serakar Clan has directly held and managed carbon rights over 293 hectares of Espiritu …
Blue Ventures and Velondriake communities protect 1,200+ hectares of mangroves in southwest Madagascar under Plan Vivo + CCB …
Oman's Environment Authority has restored mangroves from a remnant to ~1,000 ha since 2001, planting 3.5m+ seeds in …
Guinea-Bissau's VCS-certified REDD+ project across 181,200 ha of Cacheu and Cantanhez national parks has issued 1.8 million carbon …
WETLIFE 2 (LIFE13 NAT/LT/000084, 2014–2018, €1.56M) rewetted Lithuania's Amalva and Kamanos raised bogs — blocking ~37 km of …
Brazil's 2021 federal PES law underpins Floresta+ Amazônia, a $96m Green Climate Fund scheme paying family farmers R$1,500-28,000 …
Gambia's wildlife department and three NGOs restore Gambia River mangroves under a VCS-certified REDD+ project financed by a …
EU LIFE-funded project mapped carbon stocks across 13,000+ ha of Andalusian Posidonia oceanica meadows and salt marshes (13,085 …
60,000 Western Kenya smallholders adopted sustainable land management verified under the VCS, generating Africa's first certified soil-carbon credits …
India's national Green Credit Programme (Oct 2023) issues credits for restoring degraded land: by early 2025, 17 states …
Since 2017, Germany and the UK have paid Mato Grosso, Brazil, for independently verified cuts in deforestation emissions …
Since 2012, Traditional Owners and rangers at Fish River Station, NT, have used early dry-season burning across 178,000 …
Cambodia's largest REDD+ project has generated 27.6 million tonnes of Verra-verified avoided emissions across 465,000 ha of the …
Indonesia's first Plan Vivo-certified project pays 234 households in a West Kalimantan village to protect peat-swamp and riparian …
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Conservation International and Colombian partners' Vida Manglar project protects and restores mangroves across Cispatá Bay, scaling from 7,500 …
China's first Verra- and CCB Gold-certified blue carbon project restored 380 hectares of mangroves in Zhanjiang (2015–2019), expected …
Misiones province registered Argentina's first government-led jurisdictional REDD+ programme under Verra's JNR framework, covering ~1.5M ha of Atlantic …
Kenya's Northern Rangelands Trust certified soil-carbon credits across 1.9M hectares of rangeland; when validators found grazing records didn't …
ETH Zurich's Crowther Lab built Restor, a free, Google Earth Engine-based platform where anyone can map, monitor and …
One of Africa's largest soil-carbon offsets — covering 4.9 million hectares and 33 conservancies, sold to Meta, Netflix …
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