There are a wide range of potential costs that need to be considered when ecosystem restoration projects are engaging with voluntary carbon markets. This tool aims to help ecosystem restoration projects to carry out a preliminary financial feasibility analysis, to understand whether additional revenue from carbon finance is a viable and necessary option.
25th September 2023
A policy and legal primer describing the key legal, regulatory and policy considerations for nature-based carbon finance projects.
This document describes the methods to produce the Carbon Standards Database and presents a summary analysis of the findings. It was produced as part of an Advancing and Applying Knowledge grant on Voluntary Carbon Markets carried out by UNEP-WCMC, Fauna & Flora and the RSPB.
8th September 2023
This decision tree was produced as part of an Advancing and Applying Knowledge grant on Voluntary Carbon Markets carried out by UNEP-WCMC, Fauna & Flora and the RSPB to help guide ecosystem restoration projects through the different stages of engaging with voluntary carbon markets.
This guidance was produced as part of an Advancing and Applying Knowledge grant on Voluntary Carbon Markets carried out by UNEP-WCMC, Fauna & Flora and the RSPB. One barrier to landscape restoration projects engaging with voluntary carbon markets is the potential reputational risk associated with selling carbon credits. This primer is intended to increase awareness of some of the major risks that can be associated with engaging in voluntary carbon markets for restoration practitioners.
This guidance was produced as part of an Advancing and Applying Knowledge grant on Voluntary Carbon Markets carried out by UNEP-WCMC, Fauna & Flora and the RSPB. Carbon finance projects are required to be additional, meaning that the carbon emissions avoided or removed would not have occurred without the project taking place. However, requirements around additionality may vary by type of project, methodology and standard. This guidance aims to help landscape restoration projects navigate additionality requirements and produce high integrity credits which attract high quality buyers.