Forest conservation & REDD+
Avoided-deforestation and protected-area projects where credible, re-measurable baselines decide whether the credits hold.
Regions and countries
The hub's profiled projects and the registry entries are counted together. An entry that names several countries is counted under each.
Africa29
| Country | Entries |
|---|---|
| Benin | 1 |
| Central African Republic | 2 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 |
| DR Congo | 5 |
| Ethiopia | 1 |
| Gabon | 1 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 |
| Kenya | 3 |
| Liberia | 1 |
| Madagascar | 2 |
| Malawi | 1 |
| Namibia | 1 |
| Republic of Congo | 2 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 |
| Tanzania | 4 |
| Zambia | 2 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 |
Projects
Alto Huayabamba REDD+
Avoided-deforestation and conservation concession in Peru's Andean-Amazon San Martin.
ART TREES Guyana (Jurisdictional REDD+)
According to ART, the first country in the world to be issued credits under its TREES jurisdictional REDD+ standard.
Babatana Rainforest Conservation Project (Sirebe Forest Carbon Project)
A locally led forest-carbon initiative across Choiseul province's Babatana language group.
Bangui Supply Basin PES Pilot
A UNDP pilot developing payments for environmental services in the Bangui wood-fuel supply basin.
Belize Maya Forest REDD+ Project
A 40-year REDD+ crediting project protecting forest in Belize's Orange Walk district.
Bhutan's TREES Concept (Jurisdictional REDD+ Program)
Bhutan's first published step toward jurisdictional REDD+ crediting under the ART Registry.
Carbon Credit from Community Forests for Sustainability
A nationwide Thai community-forest carbon programme registered under T-VER.
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.
Community-Based REDD+ Pilot Program
A community-forestry carbon pilot run across three Nepali watersheds.
Congo Basin Peatlands (Cuvette Centrale)
Described by UNEP as the world's largest tropical peatland, a 30-billion-tonne carbon store straddling the two Congos.
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.
Costa Rica Payments for Environmental Services (PSA/FONAFIFO)
Costa Rica's two-decade-old national scheme paying landowners for forest environmental services.
Drawa Rainforest Project (REDD+ Drawa Forest Project)
Described by Mongabay as Fiji's first indigenous-owned carbon-credit project, on Vanua Levu since 2012.
Enhancing Sustainability and Climate Resilience of Forest and Agricultural Landscape and Community Livelihoods
A GEF/UNDP-supported programme combining forest, biodiversity and agricultural resilience investments across Bhutan.
Gabon results-based forest payments (CAFI)
Gabon's agreement with the Central African Forest Initiative, called by Norway's minister the first national reward in Africa for cutting forest emissions.
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.
Isangi REDD+ Project
Avoided-deforestation carbon project in two former logging concessions on the Congo River near Isangi, Tshopo.
Jari Amapá REDD+ Project
A private-land REDD+ project across Amapá state combining forest management with agro-extractivism.
Kariba REDD+
A vast forest-carbon project on Lake Kariba, now contested over large-scale over-crediting.
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.
Khasi Hills Community REDD+
A Plan Vivo REDD+ project run by a federation of Khasi traditional governments.
Kivu-Kinshasa Green Corridor
DR Congo's plan for a protected tropical forest reserve stretching from the Kivus to Kinshasa.
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.
Liberia Forest Sector Project
A World Bank-financed project building Liberia's REDD+ readiness through community forestry and land-use planning.
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.
Namibia for Life
A Project Finance for Permanence initiative worth over N$1 billion for Namibia's communal conservancies.
Nepal Terai Arc REDD+
Jurisdictional, results-based forest carbon built on Nepal's community-forestry model.
Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project
A contested soil-carbon and grazing-management project across community conservancies in northern Kenya.
Ntakata Mountains REDD+
Village-governed miombo woodland protection and chimpanzee habitat in western Tanzania.
Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary REDD+ (JCM)
Conservation International, Cambodia's Ministry of Environment and Mitsui and Co. developing REDD+ across Prey Lang forest.
Programa Socio Bosque
Ecuador's national conservation incentive programme for native forests and páramo, under 20-year agreements.
Riau Ecosystem Restoration (RER)
A private-funded peat-swamp restoration programme in Riau, Sumatra.
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.
Valdivian Coastal Reserve REDD+ Project
The Nature Conservancy calls it the first REDD+ project in Chile verified under the Verified Carbon Standard, within its Valdivian Coastal Reserve.
Vietnam Emission Reductions Program (FCPF, North Central Region)
A World Bank-administered results-based payment programme across six North Central Vietnam provinces.
Visión Amazonía
A government-to-government results-based REDD+ mechanism covering the Colombian Amazon.
Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape
A community-owned forest carbon project protecting a wildlife corridor in northern Tanzania, developed with Hadza hunter-gatherer communities.
Also listed in the registries
- ABC Norte REDD Project
- Acapa - Bajo Mira Y Frontera REDD+ Project
- Agrocortex REDD Project
- Alto Mayo Conservation Initiative
- Amazon Rio IFM
- Bajo Calima y Bahía Málaga (BCBM) REDD+ Project
- Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ project
- BIOCORREDOR MARTIN SAGRADO REDD+ PROJECT
- Boden Creek Ecological Preserve Forest Carbon Project
- BRAZILIAN AMAZON APD GROUPED PROJECT
- Bull Run Overseas Forest Carbon Project
- CAAPII REDD+ PROJECT
- Cajambre REDD+ Project
- Carbon Emissions Reduction Project in the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena (CAZ) Protected Area, Madagascar
- Carmen del Darién (CDD) REDD+ Project
- CHINKO CONSERVATION AREA REDD+ PROJECT, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
- Cikel Brazilian Amazon REDD APD Project Avoiding Planned Deforestation
- COMMUNITY BASED AVOIDED DEFORESTATION PROJECT IN GUINEA-BISSAU - REDD
- Concosta REDD+ Project
- CONDOTO REDD+
- Costa Rica
- Costa Rica FCPF REDD+ Emission Reductions Program
- Cote d'Ivoire Tai National Park Area Emission Reductions Program
- Democratic Republic of Congo Mai-Ndombe FCPF Emission Reductions Program
- Evio Kuiñaji Ese´Eja Cuana, To Mitigate Climate Change, Madre de Dios - Perú
- Feijó REDD+ Project
- Floresta Verde REDD+ Project
- FLORESTAL SANTA MARIA PROJECT
- Guyana
- Hiwi REDD+ Project
- Jari/Pará REDD+ Project
- Juruena River REDD+ Project
- Jutaituba REDD+ Project
- Kulera Landscape REDD+ Program for Co-Managed Protected Areas, Malawi
- Lacandon – Forest for life REDD+ Project
- Laguna Seca Forest Carbon Project
- Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project
- Management of Community Forests for the Reduction of Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
- Manoa REDD+ Project
- Mutatá REDD+ Project
- North Pikounda REDD+
- 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
- Protection of the Bolivian Amazon Forest
- Proyecto REDD+ Castañeros
- REDD+ Project for Caribbean Guatemala: The Conservation Coast
- REDD+ Project Magnolios de Yarumal
- REDD+ Project Pueblos indígenas resguardando la selva
- Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in Community Forests – Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia
- RESEX Rio Preto-Jacundá REDD+ Project
- Rio Bravo Climate Action Project
- Rio Madeira Grouped REDD+ Project
- Rio Pepe y ACABA REDD+ Project
- Riscales REDD+ Project
- Selva de Urundel REDD+ Project
- SIVIRÚ-USARAGÁ-PIZARRO-PILIZÁ (SUPP) REDD+ Project
- Suruí Forest Carbon Project
- 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
- Urupianga Grouped REDD Project
- Village Climate Solutions
- Yacumama Forest Carbon Project
- Yellow Ipê Grouped REDD Project