CCB
Verra's standards for land-management projects that deliver benefits for local communities and biodiversity alongside their climate benefits.
Projects
ABC Mangrove
Over 7,000 hectares of Senegalese tidal mangrove restored on a fully digitized VM0033 carbon workflow.
Alto Huayabamba REDD+
Avoided-deforestation and conservation concession in Peru's Andean-Amazon San Martin.
Belize Maya Forest REDD+ Project
A 40-year REDD+ crediting project protecting forest in Belize's Orange Walk district.
Brazil Cerrado 1
Verra VCS 5511 in Mato Grosso do Sul: eucalyptus on former pasture and native Cerrado restoration, first to be issued VM0047 credits according to Verra.
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.
Corazón Verde del Chaco
A REDD+ project in Paraguay protecting Gran Chaco forest holding thousands of plant and animal species.
Cordillera Azul REDD+
Over a million hectares of Peru's upper Amazon, and a forest carbon project whose avoided-deforestation claims are contested.
Delta Blue Carbon – 1
A blue-carbon project restoring arid-climate mangroves across the Indus Delta.
Gola Rainforest REDD+
A VCS+CCB REDD+ project guarding a surviving Upper Guinean rainforest in Sierra Leone.
Guatecarbon REDD+ Project
Eight community forestry concessions and two private companies protecting a third of the Maya Biosphere Reserve.
Jari Amapá REDD+ Project
A private-land REDD+ project across Amapá state combining forest management with agro-extractivism.
Kasigau Corridor REDD+
A community-owned dryland forest corridor linking Kenya's Tsavo East and Tsavo West national parks.
Katingan Mentaya
An intact tropical peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan, kept wet to lock carbon underground.
Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary REDD+ Project
A Wildlife Conservation Society project protecting over 166,000 hectares of Cambodian sanctuary forest.
Kuamut Rainforest Conservation Project
A public-private partnership protecting and restoring 83,381 hectares of tropical rainforest in Sabah.
Lacandón – Forest for Life REDD+ Project
A 30-year REDD+ project across Sierra Lacandón National Park run by forestry cooperatives and conservation NGOs.
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.
Makame Savannah REDD+
Maasai-governed dryland forest protection across a community Wildlife Management Area.
Makira Natural Park REDD+
A REDD+ project protecting northeastern Madagascar rainforest, a refuge where every one of the island's lemur families is found.
Ntakata Mountains REDD+
Village-governed miombo woodland protection and chimpanzee habitat in western Tanzania.
Project Colobus
Rainforest Builder's Ghana ARR project restoring degraded community land in the Upper Guinean Forest.
Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve
A peat-swamp reserve buffering Tanjung Puting, now at the centre of a licensing dispute.
Selva de Mataven REDD+
Indigenous-led avoided-deforestation across a unified reserve in the Orinoco-Amazon transition.
Southern Cardamom REDD+
Round-the-clock ranger patrols guarding half a million hectares of Cambodia's Cardamom rainforest.
Tambopata-Bahuaja REDD+ Project
A buffer-zone REDD+ project pairing forest protection with a million-tree cacao agroforestry programme.
TIST: The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program
Subsistence farmers in small groups planting and GPS-counting tens of millions of trees for carbon income.
Vida Manglar
VCS blue-carbon credits under Verra's tidal-wetland modules, conserving Cispatá Bay.
WeForest Casamance & Sine-Saloum
Four mangrove species replanted at up to 5,000 trees a hectare across Senegal's two great estuaries.
Also listed in the registries
- ABC Norte REDD Project
- Acapa - Bajo Mira Y Frontera REDD+ Project
- AFFORESTATION OF DEGRADED GRASSLANDS IN VICHADA, COLOMBIA
- Afforestation Project in Xining City
- Alto Mayo Conservation Initiative
- Bajo Calima y Bahía Málaga (BCBM) REDD+ Project
- Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ project
- BIOCORREDOR MARTIN SAGRADO REDD+ PROJECT
- Bosques del Uruguay Afforestation through High Quality Timber in Grasslands Project
- Bosques del Uruguay II (BDU II) Afforestation through High Quality Timber in Grasslands Project
- BRAZILIAN AMAZON APD GROUPED PROJECT
- CAAPII REDD+ PROJECT
- Cajambre REDD+ Project
- Carmen del Darién (CDD) REDD+ Project
- CHINKO CONSERVATION AREA REDD+ PROJECT, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
- Concosta REDD+ Project
- CONDOTO REDD+
- Damao Banner Sustainable Grassland Management Project
- ECO2 Rubber Forests Guatemala
- Evio Kuiñaji Ese´Eja Cuana, To Mitigate Climate Change, Madre de Dios - Perú
- Floresta Verde REDD+ Project
- Forteko afforestation on degraded grasslands under extensive grazing
- Gansu Dingxi Afforestation Project
- Gansu Lanzhou Afforestation Project
- Gansu Tianshui Afforestation Project
- Generation Forest Group Project
- Grassland Restoration and Stewardship in South Africa (GRASS)
- Green Gold Loreto 1
- Grouped Project for Commercial Forest Plantations Initiatives in the Department of Vichada
- Grouped Project for restoration of degraded lands in Jaguar Corridors, Colombia
- 'Guanaré' Forest Plantations on degraded grasslands under extensive grazing
- Guoluo Grassland Sustainable Management Project
- Haidong Afforestation Project
- Hiwi REDD+ Project
- Komaza Smallholder Farmer Forestry Kenya
- Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program for Co-Managed Protected Areas, Malawi
- Lacandon – Forest for life REDD+ Project
- Laguna Seca Forest Carbon Project
- Lumin/Eucapine Uruguay Forest Plantations on degraded grasslands under extensive grazing
- Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project
- Management of Community Forests for the Reduction of Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
- Manoa REDD+ Project
- Mindanao Tree Planting Program for our Climate and Communities (MinTrees)
- Mutatá REDD+ Project
- Natural High Forest Rehabilitation Project on degraded land of Kibale National Park
- PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES SCHEME FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF WATER SOURCES IN THE JURISDICTION OF CORPOCHIVOR
- Pendjari and W-Benin National Parks REDD+ Project
- Promoting Sustainable Development through Natural Rubber Tree Plantations in Guatemala
- Qinghai Afforestation Project
- REDD+ Project for Caribbean Guatemala: The Conservation Coast
- Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Community Forests – Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia
- Reforestation Grouped Project at Pratigi Environmental Protection Area
- Reforestation grouped project Norteak Nicaragua
- Reforestation of degraded grasslands in Uchindile & Mapanda, Tanzania
- Reforestation Project in Yingjing County, Sichuan Province
- RESEX Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project
- Restoration of degraded areas and reforestation in Cáceres and Cravo Norte, Colombia
- Rio Madeira Grouped REDD+ Project
- Rio Pepe y ACABA REDD+ Project
- Selva de Urundel REDD+ Project
- Selva Paranaense Vida Nativa - GS1
- Shanxi Loufan Afforestation Project
- SIVIRÚ-USARAGÁ-PIZARRO-PILIZÁ (SUPP) REDD+ Project
- Sumatra Merang Peatland Project (SMPP)
- Sustainable Agroforestry Cacao Meta, Colombia
- TAHUAMANU AMAZON REDD PROJECT
- The Envira Amazonia Project - A Tropical Forest Conservation Project in Acre, Brazil
- The Jaguar Amazon REDD+ Project
- The Last Habitat REDD+ project
- The Paraguay Forest Conservation Project - Reduction of GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Chaco-Pantanal ecosystem
- The Paraguay Forest Conservation Project – Reduction of GHG Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Parana Atlantic Ecosystem – Forest Protection in the La Amistad Community, San Rafael
- The Purus Project
- The Russas Project
- The Serra do Amolar REDD+ Project
- The Valparaiso Project
- Tumring REDD+ Project
- Village Climate Solutions
- Xinjiang Burqin Improved Grassland Management Project
- Zhangye City Afforestation Project in Gansu Province
- Zhangye Improved Grassland Management Project