China Afforestation Portfolio

Inside the project

This is a portfolio rather than a single project, marketed by Climate Impact Partners and made up of multiple local project entities across Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Guizhou provinces in China.

Together the projects restore more than 100,000 hectares of degraded land using native species such as willow, poplar, elm, spruce, pine and Siberian apricot.

The portfolio includes anti-desertification plantings on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang and karst-region restoration in Guizhou that provides wildlife corridors. Individual Verra VCS registry IDs vary across the portfolio, so it should be read as portfolio-level with moderate corroboration.

Objectives

• Restore more than 100,000 hectares of degraded land with native species.
• Combat desertification with plantings at the edge of the Taklimakan Desert.
• Restore karst-region land in Guizhou and create wildlife corridors.

Approach

• Plant native species (willow, poplar, elm, spruce, pine, Siberian apricot) suited to each province.
• Deploy anti-desertification plantings at the Taklimakan Desert edge and karst restoration in Guizhou.
• Aggregate multiple local project entities under a portfolio marketed by Climate Impact Partners, with Verra VCS registration at the entity level.