Welcome to Natural Carbon Credits
Natural Carbon Credits are the result of successfully protecting areas of forest that are at risk of deforestation. The importance of protecting these areas is vital for the health of the planet. They also provide multiple environmental and social co-benefits.
Nature-based natural carbon credits originate from natural climate solutions projects, and include forest carbon projects, forest conservation projects and other projects associated with protecting areas rich in biodiversity. Forest-based carbon credits are one of the most cost-effective, natural climate solutions which bring multiple benefits.
We are all responsible for carbon emissions, some of us more than others; however we are all contributors to the problem. Even with the best of intentions we all at some point increase the carbon in the atmosphere, from the unavoidable emissions of our everyday lives. It is important that when we do this, we take responsibility for some of these emissions and do what we can to mitigate our effect on the planet and climate change.
One of the most effective ways people can take positive action against their carbon footprint is by using carbon credits to offset their emissions. Natural carbon credits can help people to offset their emissions as they are the result of emissions being avoided or removed from the atmosphere through natural forest standard projects that help protect forests. These carbon credits help to fund the implementation of the projects that avoid deforestation and therefore provide sustainable, net positive benefits for the environment and credits carbon projects, such as the Trocano project in the Amazon, as being one of the best examples of a natural forest protection project there is. It’s based on protecting a large area of at-risk rainforest and includes highly rare, and some endangered endemic species of the region.
Without the Trocano Project and all the great work and effort that goes into implementing the project, it would mean that the area would be destroyed and damaged by deforestation.
Natural Forest Standard
Nature-based Carbon Credits
Trocano Project
The Natural Forest Standard has developed a framework specific to nature-based carbon credits and focuses entirely on natural climate solutions. The forest-based carbon credits that are the result of effective forest protection actions are issued as Natural Capital Credits.
Nature based solutions include projects which protect areas of natural forest. Forests are crucial in the fight against climate change.
The primary objective is to mitigate GHG emissions through avoided deforestation, and includes the conservation of the natural forest ecosystem, to protect the endangered habitat and communities and biodiversity protection of both the plants and the animals which are reliant on this vulnerable habitat.
Natural Capital Credits as a climate strategy
Carbon credits are an effective way to place a value on the carbon storage that natural forests provide. Nature-based climate solutions are activities and actions that enhance, protect or restore the natural world. These actions are fundamental to help us address the impacts of climate change.
People around the globe are demanding more is done about protecting the planet, and want carbon credits to bring proven positive environmental and social impacts.
Our carbon impacts have a significant effect on climate change. There are a vast number of strategies and solutions that are available to help address this, but one of the most effective solutions is often overlooked. This is the protection of the nature that is already in existence.
To achieve our climate goals, in addition to reducing carbon emissions and climate change, the planet needs carbon sinks. There are a number of engineering and technical solutions for carbon capture, but they are often expensive and time consuming to bring through to effective implementation. Forests are carbon sinks (i.e. they absorb and hold significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere) and they are by far the most cost effective carbon capture and storage solution that is readily available.
This natural capital carbon solution is highly efficient and not only absorbs and stores the carbon from the atmosphere but also provides a whole wealth of additional co-benefits. These are such as protecting biodiversity, including rare and endangered species, maintaining ecosystems and supporting communities in their everyday lives.
