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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

Área do projeto

7.5M tCO2e/yr

Emissões evitadas verificadas

Aldeias parceiras

Details

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

Context

O projeto Katingan Mentaya conserva turfeiras tropicais em Kalimantan Central, Indonésia, ao abrigo das normas Verra VCS e CCB Gold, trabalhando com aldeias parceiras locais e protegendo o habitat do orangotango-de-bornéu.

Results

O projeto abrange 157.875 ha e está verificado em cerca de 7,5 milhões de tCO2e de emissões evitadas por ano, envolvendo 39 aldeias parceiras e protegendo mais de 5% da população remanescente de orangotangos-de-bornéu.

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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