Community Reforestation
The Community Reforestation program builds grassroots forest restoration movements through community-led governance, land tenure recognition, and integration into carbon markets. CRCC focuses on restoring degraded forest ecosystems while creating a carbon commons model that returns environmental revenue to communities.
Program Objectives
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Reforest deforested areas using native, biodiverse species for ecological recovery.
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Enable local communities to earn from forest carbon through collective ownership structures.
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Build forest stewardship institutions with clear tenure and sustainable benefit-sharing.
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Align forest recovery with national biodiversity strategies and global climate finance.
Program Methodology
The Community Reforestation Project follows a comprehensive, systems-based approach to ecological regeneration, emphasizing environmental restoration, carbon equity, and community-driven action. The methodology incorporates the following key strategies: restoring native forests through participatory planting, enhancing biodiversity, and stabilizing degraded ecosystems; embedding climate-smart practices that improve soil health, water retention, and carbon sequestration; building local capacity through training, stewardship agreements, and inclusive governance; and aligning forest restoration with carbon market standards to unlock sustainable finance. This approach prioritizes co-creation with communities, ensuring long-term forest health, livelihoods, and resilience through locally led action and global climate accountability
Participatory Forest Design
The project emphasizes community-led forest planning, where local groups actively participate in ecological zoning, seed selection, and planting plans. These efforts prioritize climate-resilient, multi-species regrowth, ensuring that restored forests are both ecologically diverse and adapted to future climate conditions.
Carbon Commons
Governance
Governance is structured around local forest boards that oversee rights management, monitoring, reporting, verification (MRV) data access, and equitable revenue distribution. Transparent and inclusive governance frameworks are key to ensuring that benefits from forest carbon initiatives are shared fairly within communities.
High-Integrity Carbon
Development
Forest projects use community-based MRV systems to monitor carbon biomass, co-benefits, and permanence. By aligning with globally recognized carbon standards such as Verra and Gold Standard, these projects ensure credibility, scalability, and integrity in carbon credit generation
Policy and Legal
Integration
The program strengthens legal frameworks by securing customary land tenure and embedding community forests in national carbon strategies. Capacity-building efforts align local initiatives with REDD+, 30x30 conservation targets, and emerging incentive mechanisms for sustainable forest protection
Global Impact and Targets
(2040)
By 2040, the community reforestation initiative aims to restore 2 million hectares of degraded forests, generating over 150 million tonnes of verified carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO₂e) in carbon credits. It is designed to directly benefit over 200,000 households through income-sharing mechanisms, while also establishing more than 300 forest cooperatives to ensure local governance and sustainability. In addition to climate mitigation, the program delivers verified biodiversity co-benefits—including enhanced flora and fauna habitats, improved water systems, and strengthened community livelihoods—making it a holistic, high-impact solution for climate and ecological resilienceThese projections and others form a key foundations of our activities and objectives.
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The environment we have is not just the space we live in, it is the intricate system of air, water, soil, climate, plants, and animals that makes life possible. Healthy ecosystems regulate the planet’s temperature, purify water, store carbon, pollinate crops, and protect us from natural disasters. But this balance is rapidly being disrupted. Add your Voice! ACT NOW!
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