VM0009
Quantifies net GHG emission reductions and removals from activities that prevent conversion of forest to non-forest and of native grassland and shrubland. Source: verra.org.
Methodology for Avoided Ecosystem Conversion
Projects
Chocó-Darién Conservation Corridor REDD+ Project
Described by Ecosystem Marketplace as the first certified REDD+ project on community-owned, collectively titled land, in Colombia's Chocó-Darién.
Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project
Maasai-led carbon project safeguarding the cloud forest and savanna corridor between Amboseli and Tsavo.
Kasigau Corridor REDD+
A community-owned dryland forest corridor linking Kenya's Tsavo East and Tsavo West national parks.
Lower Zambezi REDD+
Long-running Zambian REDD+ protecting the Lower Zambezi landscape.
Luangwa Community Forests Project
A REDD+ project protecting a lion stronghold across 30 chiefdoms in Zambia's Luangwa Valley.
Mai-Ndombe REDD+
A former logging concession in the Congo Basin turned community-governed rainforest refuge.
Southern Cardamom REDD+
Round-the-clock ranger patrols guarding half a million hectares of Cambodia's Cardamom rainforest.