Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area — TNC/PfB Climate Action Project (Belize)
Belize
One of the world's first forest carbon projects (1994): TNC and Programme for Belize conserve 102,790 ha of tropical forest …
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Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ Project (Ethiopia)
Ethiopia · Goba · See the Ethiopia profile
Community-led REDD+ project in Ethiopia's afromontane Bale eco-region: 5.5M tCO2e verified under VCS+CCBA Gold, 58% deforestation reduction, 25,000+ ha protected, benefiting 350,000 people directly and 12M downstream ecosystem-service users.
5.5M tCO2e
Verified emission reductions
58%
Deforestation reduction
350,000
Direct beneficiaries
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Farm Africa / SOS Sahel / Oromia Forest and Wildlife Enterprise (OFWE)
- Period
- 2012-present
- Keywords
- Afromontane forest, carbon, community, biodiversity
Context
The Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ Project is a community-led project in Ethiopia's afromontane Bale eco-region, certified under Verra VCS and CCBA Gold.
Results
It has verified 5.5 million tCO2e, achieved a 58% reduction in deforestation and protected over 25,000 ha, benefiting 350,000 people directly and around 12 million downstream ecosystem-service users.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-20
- Farm Africa / SOS Sahel / Oromia Forest and Wildlife Enterprise (OFWE) — accessed 2026-06-20
- Farm Africa – How coffee and carbon credits cut deforestation in Bale — accessed 2026-06-20
- CCBA project registry – Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ — accessed 2026-06-20
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