South 24 Parganas, West Bengal · India
Women-led mangrove nurseries and plantation that rebuild the living edge between the Sundarbans villages and the tide.
Saplings planted at this sitePending verification
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05 · Developing high-integrity nature-based climate projects.
The challenge
Restoration is chronically underfunded, and the carbon market has too often rewarded claims over outcomes. Communities need long-term finance, and buyers need confidence that each tonne is real.
Our approach
Assessing mangrove and wetland sites for carbon feasibility: baselines, additionality, permanence and leakage, before anything is promised.
Benefit-sharing and free, prior and informed consent are built into project design, not added after the credits are sold.
We distinguish estimated, modelled, monitored, verified and issued, publicly and on every page.
What we measure
Nature-based carbon projects in development: figure pending verification
tCO₂e: estimated removals over project life: figure pending verification
Carbon credits issued to date: figure pending verification
Restoration first
Mangroves hold exceptional carbon stocks, much of it in deep, waterlogged soils.
Healthy wetlands accumulate organic carbon while filtering and storing water.
The same forests and wetlands protect coasts and shelter wildlife.
Carbon finance should pay the people who restore and protect these ecosystems.
Project lifecycle
Site selection, eligibility, methodology choice and risk screening.
Historical land cover, carbon stocks and what would happen without the project.
Free, prior and informed consent, and a benefit-sharing agreement written with the community.
Women-led nurseries, planting and aftercare, matched to site conditions.
Survival, growth, soil carbon and biodiversity, tracked over years.
Independent audit against the chosen standard.
Issued only after verification, then tracked and retired on a public registry.
Protection and benefit-sharing for the full crediting period and beyond.
Integrity
Projects
South 24 Parganas, West Bengal · India
Women-led mangrove nurseries and plantation that rebuild the living edge between the Sundarbans villages and the tide.
Saplings planted at this sitePending verification
ExploreOdisha coast · India
Extending women-led mangrove planting and community clean-ups along Odisha's cyclone-exposed coast.
Saplings plantedPending verification
ExploreTamil Nadu coast · India
Nature-based coastal livelihoods, including seaweed, that give coastal families a stake in healthy nearshore waters.
Women in coastal livelihood programmesPending verification
ExploreIndian Sundarbans, West Bengal · India
Testing whether restored mangroves can support a high-integrity blue carbon project that funds communities for decades.
Area assessedPending verification
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