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🌎 Happy New Year! As we welcome 2025, we're reminded of the importance of conserving our planet’s biodiversity and supporting wildlife recovery. In December, Lomphat, a 5-month-old elephant calf, was rescued in #Cambodia after suffering a snare injury. Thanks to the swift response of the Ministry of Environment and Wildlife Alliance, Lomphat is now on her road to recovery, gaining weight and showing signs of improvement. Her story emphasizes why we must continue to support REDD+ efforts. By investing in forest communities and ensuring sustainable land-use practices, we not only protect habitats for endangered species like Lomphat, but we also help strengthen the livelihoods of those who are guardians of these critical ecosystems. Here’s to a year of bold action and meaningful impact.  🔗 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gnrg3gmK #HappyNewYear #WildlifeProtection #REDD

As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on a year filled with milestones, challenges and progress in the fight for our planet’s future. In this final edition of Forest Notes for the year, we’re celebrating the transformative work being done across the globe to protect forests, safeguard biodiversity, support livelihoods and combat climate change in partnership with communities. We’ll be taking a short break for the holidays and look forward to continuing this critical work in 2025. Wishing you happy holidays and all the best in the year ahead! For the full edition of Forest Notes subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/e_syv-TD

🔑 Key Finding from the Global Baseline White Paper At a system level, historical project-level REDD+ crediting was essentially identical to what it would have been under a jurisdictional approach. Over the 20-year study period, project-level REDD+ carbon crediting outcomes were essentially the same as they would have been under a jurisdictional forest reference emissions level (FREL), allocated to projects on the basis of area. This finding highlights the robustness and accuracy of REDD+ crediting under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), reinforcing confidence in its integrity and effectiveness in combating deforestation. 🔗- https://lnkd.in/eDshCg-t

🔑 Key finding from the Global Baseline White Paper Forest loss rates in REDD+ project areas were ten times lower than in surrounding jurisdictions. The analysis found that deforestation rates in REDD+ project areas were ten times lower than in their surrounding jurisdictions. Even with high leakage assumptions factored in, the projects achieved significantly reduced deforestation. This demonstrates the systematic effectiveness of REDD+ in protecting forests while delivering measurable climate benefits. Read the full paper here - https://lnkd.in/eDshCg-t

Discover the incredible story of resilience and hope from the Congo Basin. Black Water explores how the community around Lake Mai Ndombe is transforming crisis into opportunity by using #CarbonCredits to restore their ecosystem and secure their future. Watch now: https://lnkd.in/eMiStUni #BlackWater #Conservation #CarbonCreditsWork

🌏 A Historic Milestone for Makira, its communities, and biodiversity! 🌿 December 12, 2024, marks a key step in preserving the Makira Natural Park, one of Madagascar’s largest tropical rainforests. Thanks to the support of Rio Tinto and a partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Wildlife Conservation Society, Makira Carbon Company, and Everland , several agreements were signed to ensure sustainable conservation financing, enhance climate resilience, and support local communities. 📜 These agreements include: 🤝 A marketing contract 🤝 An emissions reduction purchase agreement 🤝 A convention for the management of the Makira Community Carbon Fund   💡 Main objectives for the agreements is to: ✔️ Provide direct support to communities through the Makira Community Carbon Fund ✔️ Protect 372,470 hectares of Makira’s primary rainforest ✔️ Promote carbon credits to reduce deforestation 🌳   The development of these agreements is made possible by the Rio Tinto commitment $16 million to the Makira Natural Park REDD+ Project in northern Madagascar, through a new partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Everland. WCS salutes the Government of the Republic of Madagascar and Rio Tinto in supporting this process. Read the news 👉 https://bit.ly/4gzWdnX   #Conservation #Makira #REDDplus #Biodiversity #Climate

🔑 Key finding from the Global Baseline white paper REDD+ project baseline forest loss predictions closely matched actual jurisdictional forest loss. When aggregated globally over a 20-year period (2002–2022), REDD+ baseline projections — which estimate deforestation in the absence of a project — closely matched the actual forest loss observed in surrounding jurisdictions. This result highlights that REDD+ carbon crediting has been robust at a system level, demonstrating that baseline methodologies have been a reasonable and effective benchmark for assessing deforestation threats. 🔗 Read more here- https://lnkd.in/eDshCg-t #REDD #ClimateImpact #Deforestation

Today, Everland and Space Intelligence published a white paper titled "Global Baseline Assessment of REDD+ Projects: Twenty Years of Carbon Crediting." Authored by Joshua Tosteson, Maren Burrows (Pauly), Ph.D. and Ed Mitchard, the study concludes that carbon crediting from REDD+ projects has been robust when assessed system-wide over its twenty-year history. The research analyzed baseline forest loss projections for 45 REDD+ projects, comparing them to actual forest loss in surrounding jurisdictions between 2002 and 2022. The findings show that REDD+ project baselines closely matched the actual forest loss which took place in their surrounding jurisdictions, and systematically achieved low levels of forest loss in comparison to the surrounding jurisdictions. Read the full paper to explore this critical research into the role of REDD+ project baselines in combating deforestation. 🔗- https://lnkd.in/eDshCg-t

In this month's Forest Notes, we celebrate a milestone for the Wildlife Conservation Society Makira Natural Park REDD+ Project in Madagascar, powered by Rio Tinto’s $16M commitment. This transformative partnership protects 372,000 hectares of forest, benefits 90,000 people, and exemplifies REDD+ in action. Dive into updates on biodiversity conservation, community impact, and a groundbreaking methodology set to drive meaningful change. Subscribe for the full edition here: https://lnkd.in/e_syv-TD

I am so proud to see this groundbreaking partnership between the Government of Madagascar, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Rio Tinto, and Everland come to life. The partnership, anchored by Rio Tinto’s $16m commitment to the 372,000 hectare Makira Natural Park REDD+ Project, embodies the full promise and potential of REDD+ in action: * The integration of project-level REDD+ interventions within a national program framework, delivering tangible, meaningful results from intensive site-based work to advance Madagascar’s climate and sustainable development goals * Direct revenue sharing with the 90,000 local people who live in 120 villages in the project area  * Effective conservation of a precious, threatened forest with unimaginable endemic biodiversity  * A unique, action- and service-oriented public-private partnership involving government, community, conservation NGO, and private sector, with each partner playing a crucial role in bringing a shared vision to reality. I especially want to credit the leadership of WCS and Rio Tinto, in particular Todd Stevens and Theresia Ott. Bringing a partnership like this to fruition requires real vision, and an unwavering dedication to doing something truly meaningful, to bridge the obvious divides between a global conservation organization and a mining company. In this spirit of collaboration, WCS, Rio Tinto, and the Government of Madagascar have cut through all the noise, controversy, and uncertainties to do something real. No creating excuses for inaction, just getting on with the work to care for people and planet. That is my definition of integrity. The best of voluntary market, project-based REDD+ in action.