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Katingan Mentaya REDD+ Peatland Conservation Project (Indonesia)

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World's largest forest-based avoided-emissions project: 157,875 ha of tropical peatland in Central Kalimantan verified at 7.5M tCO2e/yr under Verra VCS+CCB Gold, protecting 39 partner villages and over 5% of the remaining Bornean Orangutan population.

157,875 ha

Superficie du projet

7.5M tCO2e/yr

Émissions évitées vérifiées

Villages partenaires

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: PT Rimba Makmur Utama (PT RMU) / Permian Global
Period: 2010-present
Keywords: Peatland, carbon, REDD+, biodiversity

Context

Le projet Katingan Mentaya conserve des tourbières tropicales au Kalimantan central, en Indonésie, selon les normes Verra VCS et CCB Gold, en collaboration avec des villages partenaires locaux et en protégeant l'habitat de l'orang-outan de Bornéo.

Results

Le projet couvre 157 875 ha et est vérifié à environ 7,5 millions de tCO2e d'émissions évitées par an, mobilisant 39 villages partenaires et protégeant plus de 5% de la population restante d'orangs-outans de Bornéo.

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
PT Rimba Makmur Utama (PT RMU) / Permian Global — accessed 2026-06-20
CIFOR REDD+ casebook: Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project — accessed 2026-06-20
Permian Global: Katingan Mentaya project overview — accessed 2026-06-20

Attachments

Quality score: 87/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 1% in this catalogue (335 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced3/3

7.5M tCO2e/yr independently verified under Verra VCS (industry standard), AA-rated by BeZero Carbon; third-party verifiers confirm world's largest forest-based avoided-emission volume per annum.

Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced3/3

Verra CCB Gold independently certifies protection of 8 critically endangered, 25 endangered and 58 vulnerable species, including >5% of the remaining global Bornean Orangutan population.

Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control2/3

Intact peatland hydrological function (high water table) is explicitly protected under project design; peat hydrology benefits cited in CCB documentation but not separately quantified.

Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced2/3

Indonesian peat fires (2015, 2019) caused global emissions spikes; intact rewetted peat dramatically reduces catastrophic fire risk; fire suppression is a documented project activity but not the primary MRV metric.

Governance, certification & transferability3/3

Dual Verra VCS+CCB certification with annual third-party verification, public Verra registry, BeZero AA and Sylvera benchmark ratings, Indonesian government-authorised concession through PT RMU.

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Evidoria. Katingan Mentaya REDD+ Peatland Conservation Project (Indonesia). Persistent ID: 5680feea-7826-4c0b-ba9a-1393e88b44c0.

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