Nature-Based Carbon Offsetting

Untitled Nature-Based Carbon Offsetting August 2023 A policy position to frame both our ongoing policy and influence work and the development and application of carbon projects by the Secretariat working with Partners: How nature-based carbon offset projects funded through the voluntary carbon market can contribute effectively to tackling the biodiversity and climate crises. [...] We urgently need to secure innovative forms of finance to bridge the biodiversity financing gap and secure the investment necessary to halt and reverse the loss of natural carbon sinks. [...] To make the most of this potential 1 2 3 Please find the definition of ‘Nature-based Solutions’ in the glossary 2 opportunity, the VCM needs to recognise the greater value of nature-based carbon offset projects that explici. [...] Since 2012, BirdLife International Partners in the United Kingdom, the ‘Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ (RSPB) and CSSL have collaborated with the Sierra Leonean government and local communities to develop a nature- based carbon offset project in the Sierra Leonean section of the Gola landscape. [...] This section provides information on Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals of the main greenhouse gases to and from the atmosphere.8 Nature-based carbon offsetting projects are a specific type of carbon offset project that will offset Nature-based carbon greenhouse gas emissions through using plants, soil, or the ocean, to remove from or prevent the release of offset project carbon into the.