Last updated: 08/2024
The aim of every Forest Carbon partner is the same - whether they're a small business planting a portion of a woodland, or a FTSE listed company planting the whole thing: they want to enhance Britain's carbon-sinking potential through woodland creation or peatland restoration, and they want to know that everything has been done (and is being done) properly.
Our UK woodlands
All of the woodlands we sell carbon from are Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) certified, a quality assurance standard backed by the UK government. This means you can be sure that the right trees were planted, in the right way and at the right numbers; that they'll be managed properly; that they'll be monitored; that problems will be fixed and permanence ensured; that biodiversity and habitats have been respected; that the CO₂e number we give you is based on sound science and good risk assessment; and, importantly, that the trees would not have been planted were it not for our intervention on your behalf.
Please see our ‘Sponsor Nature’ offering to understand which woodlands are not certified under the WCC, and why.
Our peatlands
Our peatland restoration projects are accredited and continually verified by the IUCN-owned Peatland Code. This means you can be sure that the restoration work was done in the right way, with due respect for ground-nesting birds and the vegetation itself. The Peatland Code ensures all of our projects will be monitored, and managed sensitively and that problems will be fixed.
Using the Code's metrics means the CO₂e number we give you is both conservative and based on sound science. Importantly, it means that we can guarantee that the degraded peatland would not have been restored were it not for our intervention on your behalf.
Our international projects
We currently support 3 types of international projects; ARR, REDD+ and Renewables.
ARR stands for Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation and signals that the projects have passed quality assurance audits developed by the likes of Verra as part of its Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program.
REDD+ stands for ‘Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries’. The ‘+’ signals that more has been done to increase the positive impact of the project, for example, ‘sustainable management practices were followed’.
Renewables is our label, bucketing hydro and natural gas projects together. These projects are cost-effective solutions to compensate for emissions.
All of these projects are certified under recognised, best-in-class standards such as Verra's Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), Gold Standard and Plan Vivo.
For more information on how a woodland stores carbon, head to ‘Woodland carbon’. You can learn how more about peatlands over on ‘What are peatlands'.
