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
Reducciones de emisiones verificadas
58%
Reducción de la deforestación
350,000
Beneficiarios directos
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Farm Africa / SOS Sahel / Oromia Forest and Wildlife Enterprise (OFWE)
- Period
- 2012-present
- Keywords
- Afromontane forest, carbon, community, biodiversity
Context
El Proyecto REDD+ de la Ecorregión de las Montañas Bale es un proyecto liderado por la comunidad en la ecorregión afromontana de Bale, en Etiopía, certificado bajo las normas Verra VCS y CCBA Gold.
Results
Verificó 5,5 millones de tCO2e, logró una reducción del 58% en la deforestación y protegió más de 25.000 ha, beneficiando directamente a 350.000 personas y a unos 12 millones de usuarios aguas abajo de servicios ecosistémicos.
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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