Nature Basket
Standing forests, peat and mangroves
Protection and restoration of tropical peat swamp, mangrove, Amazonian and temperate forest, weighted towards the highest-rated large-scale projects.
Nature buys the ecosystems that are already storing carbon and are at credible risk of being cleared. The weight sits with Katingan Mentaya, a peat-swamp project independently AA-rated by both BeZero and Sylvera, and Delta Blue Carbon, the largest blue carbon project in the world. Alongside them sit an Amazonian avoided-deforestation project, an Alaskan improved forest management project and a Ugandan smallholder tree-planting programme. Avoided-deforestation baselines have drawn well-documented third-party scrutiny across the market, so the basket is deliberately diversified across four methodologies and five countries rather than concentrated in REDD+.
- Location
- Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, USA and Uganda
- Vintages
- 2019-2022
- Projects in basket
- 5
$38.51
per tonne of CO₂e, all in
- Available now
- 6,500 tonnes
- Minimum order
- 1 tonnes
- Fulfilment
- Retired in your name
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What else these projects do
Contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals 1, 8, 13, 14, 15
Exactly what is in this basket
Every tonne you buy is split across these projects in the proportions shown. Each one links to its public registry listing, so you can verify any of it yourself.
Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project
Protects and restores roughly 150,000 hectares of tropical peat-swamp forest in Central Kalimantan that would otherwise have been drained for industrial acacia plantations. Verra completed a scheduled review of the underlying scientific assumptions before resuming issuance, and the 2021-2023 vintages are rated AA by both BeZero and Sylvera.
30%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 1477
Registry listingDelta Blue Carbon - 1: The Indus Delta Mangrove Restoration Project
The largest blue carbon project in the world, spanning 350,000 hectares of the Indus Delta in Thatta and Sujawal districts, with mangrove restoration planned across 226,000 hectares of degraded tidal wetland. Over a quarter of the 43,000 residents of the project area take part in restoration work.
25%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 2250
Registry listingThe Envira Amazonia Project - A Tropical Forest Conservation Project in Acre, Brazil
An avoided planned deforestation project in Acre where a large landowner forgoes conversion of tropical forest to cattle ranching, with a 30-year crediting period running from August 2012. Rated BB because avoided-deforestation baselines of this vintage have been the subject of well-documented third-party scrutiny across the market; held at a small weight for that reason.
15%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 1382
Registry listingAfognak Forest Carbon Project
Protects Sitka spruce forest on Afognak Island, Alaska, from commercial clear-cut logging under the logged-to-protected-forest pathway. A temperate-forest project in a stable jurisdiction with a straightforward, well-documented baseline.
20%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 872
Registry listingTIST Program in Uganda, VCS-CCB 010
Smallholder farmers organised into small groups plant and maintain trees on grassland and cropland, sharing carbon revenue directly. A genuine removals component inside an otherwise protection-weighted basket.
10%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 2339
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