More than 90% of Madagascar’s original forests have been cut down or burned due to human activity. The consequences are terrible: entire animal species are displaced and it took away the Malagasy’s ability to farm and live on the land. With entire mangrove estuaries gone, the island is been washing away into the sea.

The non-profit Eden Reforestation Projects is fighting against this situation by continuing to reforest the island. Eden are world leaders in responsible reforestation, having already planted 265 million trees and created 2.6 million work days for local communities.

With our trusted partner Ecologi, we are contributing to plant trees in the north west of the island, near Marataola, in an area of 1,354 hectares (about 180km2). 

In 2019, Australia has gone through one of the largest natural disasters in history. Wildfires spread across every Australian state, burning up nearly 18.6 million hectares (46 million acres) of bush as of March 2020, leaving an unprecedented destruction. In many Australian states the devastation witnessed is nearly unrecoverable. In the state of New South Wales 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) have been lost, over 1,500 homes destroyed or damaged. But the local Australian wildlife was the one who received the hardest hit. 

This aim of this project is to restore over 6 million trees across the country in 2020.

This project is located in south-east Peru, in the Madre de Dios region. Here, thanks to our partner Ecologi, WEarth will contribute to fund the protection of 98,932 hectares of Amazonian rainforest. It is estimated that the protection of this area will prevent from entering the atmosphere the equivalent of 659,793 tonnes of CO2 each year.

This project ensures: 

- long-term conservation and sustainable management of the forest.

- promotes healthy wildlife habitat.

- prevents future compromise of the forest carbon stocks.

This project is subject to exceptional monitoring from the technology company Pachama. This company can monitor and verify carbon stocks at a level of detail that is not normally seen in 'Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD+) projects. Thanks to the use of machine learning, satellite imagery and other techniques such as LiDAR, they are capable to actively report to the project developer and certifier to additionally verify reported carbon reductions. 

The non-profit charity One Tree Planted has big ambitions of replanting the Appalachian Trail a in five year, multi-state effort that we are happy to support! The project will return formerly unproductive mining, logging, and agricultural land to balance. Moreover, reforesting this area will also benefit nearby communities as hydrological function will be improved, providing them with better quality water. Another important impact of this project is that it creates meaningful jobs in communities suffering high rates of poverty and unemployment. To ensure the forests are maintained sustainably for many years to come there are also conservation practices in place.

Located in Uruguay, this project is turning 21,298 hectares of land that has been used for cattle grazing for over 300 years, to sustainable managed forestry. This important long-term project is overseen and validated by the Rainforest Alliance. It is estimated that the project’s initial 60 year lifespan will sequester 7,644,973 tonnes of CO2.

The carbon calculation is based on various other carbon pools – living above-ground and below-ground biomass, soil, litter, non-tree vegetation and dead wood.

Every 22 years usable timber products will be harvested. The reason of the periodic selling of timber is that the cost per tonne of CO2 to sequester would have been out of reach without it.

This project aims to reforest and reintroduce wildlife in a territory of 430 acres that was once the home to native Scottish wildlife including adders, hares and hedgehogs. The area is located in North Ayrshire, close to Glasgow, near the small town of Dalry.

Due to neglect and poor farming, this land has become barren. The project consists in restoring the land back to a healthy ecosystem by using agroforestry. Why? A healthy forest ecosystem produces and conserves soil by itself: it stabilises stream flows and water runoffs, and hosts a huge array of wildlife. To achieve this, the methods used include rotational grazing of livestock and recycling of forest waste into biochar. In essence, a grazing livestock, like the woolly pigs, churn up the soil and spread manure and seeds. Why Woolly pigs? Because they are well known for their hardiness: enduring cold temperatures and rough terrain are nothing to these animals, making them perfect candidates for restoring the soil back to its fertile state.

More than 90% of Madagascar’s original forests have been cut down or burned due to human activity. The consequences are terrible: entire animal species are displaced and it took away the Malagasy’s ability to farm and live on the land. With entire mangrove estuaries gone, the island is been washing away into the sea.

The non-profit Eden Reforestation Projects is fighting against this situation by continuing to reforest the island. Eden are world leaders in responsible reforestation, having already planted 265 million trees and created 2.6 million work days for local communities.

With our trusted partner Ecologi, we are contributing to plant trees in the north west of the island, near Marataola, in an area of 1,354 hectares (about 180km2). 

In 2019, Australia has gone through one of the largest natural disasters in history. Wildfires spread across every Australian state, burning up nearly 18.6 million hectares (46 million acres) of bush as of March 2020, leaving an unprecedented destruction. In many Australian states the devastation witnessed is nearly unrecoverable. In the state of New South Wales 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) have been lost, over 1,500 homes destroyed or damaged. But the local Australian wildlife was the one who received the hardest hit. 

This aim of this project is to restore over 6 million trees across the country in 2020.

This project is located in south-east Peru, in the Madre de Dios region. Here, thanks to our partner Ecologi, WEarth will contribute to fund the protection of 98,932 hectares of Amazonian rainforest. It is estimated that the protection of this area will prevent from entering the atmosphere the equivalent of 659,793 tonnes of CO2 each year. This project ensures: 

- long-term conservation and sustainable management of the forest

- promotes healthy wildlife habitat.

- prevents future compromise of the forest carbon stocks.

This project is subject to exceptional monitoring from the technology company Pachama. This company can monitor and verify carbon stocks at a level of detail that is not normally seen in 'Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD+) projects. Thanks to the use of machine learning, satellite imagery and other techniques such as LiDAR, they are capable to actively report to the project developer and certifier to additionally verify reported carbon reductions. 

The non-profit charity One Tree Planted has big ambitions of replanting the Appalachian Trail a in five year, multi-state effort that we are happy to support! The project will return formerly unproductive mining, logging, and agricultural land to balance. Moreover, reforesting this area will also benefit nearby communities as hydrological function will be improved, providing them with better quality water. Another important impact of this project is that it creates meaningful jobs in communities suffering high rates of poverty and unemployment. To ensure the forests are maintained sustainably for many years to come there are also conservation practices in place.

Located in Uruguay, this project is turning 21,298 hectares of land that has been used for cattle grazing for over 300 years, to sustainable managed forestry. This important long-term project is overseen and validated by the Rainforest Alliance. It is estimated that the project’s initial 60 year lifespan will sequester 7,644,973 tonnes of CO2.

The carbon calculation is based on various other carbon pools – living above-ground and below-ground biomass, soil, litter, non-tree vegetation and dead wood.

Every 22 years usable timber products will be harvested. The reason of the periodic selling of timber is that the cost per tonne of CO2 to sequester would have been out of reach without it.

This project aims to reforest and reintroduce wildlife in a territory of 430 acres that was once the home to native Scottish wildlife including adders, hares and hedgehogs. The area is located in North Ayrshire, close to Glasgow, near the small town of Dalry.

Due to neglect and poor farming, this land has become barren. The project consists in restoring the land back to a healthy ecosystem by using agroforestry. Why? A healthy forest ecosystem produces and conserves soil by itself: it stabilises stream flows and water runoffs, and hosts a huge array of wildlife. To achieve this, the methods used include rotational grazing of livestock and recycling of forest waste into biochar. In essence, a grazing livestock, like the woolly pigs, churn up the soil and spread manure and seeds. Why Woolly pigs? Because they are well known for their hardiness: enduring cold temperatures and rough terrain are nothing to these animals, making them perfect candidates for restoring the soil back to its fertile state.

The scarcity of wood coupled with high demand for energetic needs has put increasing stress on the natural environment. Reducing the demand for wood fuel is key in easing the pressure on local environments.

This Gold Standard project involves the distribution of around 8,000 domestic fuel-efficient cook stoves to households within the Anseba district, in Eritrea. Annually, this action saves 10,960 tonnes of wood from being burned.


Thanks to its improved efficiency, the stoves will not only reduce the demand for fuel wood by 60%-70%, thereby reducing environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions, but it will also improve the health of women and children who are responsible for managing the stoves.

The project consists in supporting Orange Mamatkheda Wind (OMWPL). This amazing group is installing wind power in the villages of Mandsaur & Ratlam of the district of Madhya Pradesh state, India. The goal of the project is using wind energy to generate electrical power through the installation of Wind Electric Generators (WEG’s). The total installed capacity of the project activity is 100.5 MW (million watts) comprising of 67 ReGen wind turbines of 1500 kW capacity each.

Just to give you a better picture, a wind turbine typically generates 2-3 MW of power — or at least they are capable of producing that kind of power when the wind is really blowing. Of course, the wind doesn’t always blow but, approximately, a typical 2 MW wind turbine can provide electricity for about 350 homes.

In this project located in Dowa, Malawi, the aim is to repair damaged water boreholed and to drill new ones. Without access to these boreholes, the community's only way to get drinkable water is through boiling it. The boiling process is done by using firewood, sending a large amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. 

For this, this project is estimated to prevent almost 50,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.

The project is expected to have a total rated capacity of 75 MW of generated power, which will be supplied to the public electricity grid. The estimated net annual power supply to the grid is 253,000 MWh. The project employs a total of 709 people, 95% of which are Indonesian.

The Sidrap Wind Energy Project Phase 1 is located Mattirotasi and Lainungan Villages, Watang Pulu Sub-district, Sidrap Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. 

This project creates a new biomass power plant in Siltara, Raipur, India. The power plant uses local rice husks waste as the energy source for a new 20 megawatt steam turbine. The rice husks come from within 50KM of the project site. This project will prevent 340,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Moreover, the project operator is enabling the following co-benefits:


- A new health clinic in the village of Kachhe AariDongri; 

- Teachers have been appointed to local schools with salaries paid; 

- Provide scholarships and school trips; 

- Creation of jobs and training centres for girls and women; 

- Installed a new water pump in the village Tada; 

- Provide tankers of water for local communities during summer droughts;

- Creation of new roads in and around the area.

The project consists in the installation of 20 megawatt solar power system in Rajasthan. The goal is to remove emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be around 35,149 tonnes of CO2 per year. In addition to that, the project will produce 35,951 MWh/year of electricity into the grid, which is mainly dominated by thermal/fossil fuel based power plant.

This project is creating a new biomass energy generation plant in the rural Bachu County of the Xinjiang province. The power plant will be fueled by agricultural biomass waste for a new 12 megawatt steam turbine. It is calculated that this project will prevent 340,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.

To understand what this project consists in, let's answer the question 'what does biomass energy generation mean?'.


It is the use of organic materials, such as grass clippings, sawdust, bark and dung, to create electricity through combustion, or be processed in to oil or gas. This is good for two reasons. While burning biomass release carbon in to the atmosphere, it is essentially trading carbon already in the carbon cycle. It cycles from atmosphere to plants and back again. Crucially, it is preventing more carbon entering the cycle by not needing to resort to fossil fuels. Biomass energy generation is described as a “bridge” solution until there is widespread availability of carbon-free electricity.

The project consists in contributing to the Akbuk Wind Power Plant, located in a rural region of Turkey. This power plant has 15 installed wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 31.5MW. The project has managed to displace fossil-fuel energy in the region and create jobs during the construction phase and ongoing maintenance.

The Akbuk plant is famous for its coastal location and is probably one of the most scenic wind farms in the world!

The Santa Marta Landfill Gas Project is located in Chile, in one of the most important landfills in the Santiago region. Its aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing, flaring and generating electricity from the methane gas (LFG) produced at the landfill. The Santa Marta landfill extends over 700 acres and receives approximately 1.3 million metric tons of waste every year. The LFG created by by the waste produces 28 MW of renewable energy into the regional grid.

An important aspect of this Gold Standard-certified project is the plan to continuously support local communities. The project manages to do that through a nursery and day care in Lonquén, as well as investments in school infrastructure. This simultaneously creates new job opportunities for women in these facilities, and allows women working on the Santa Marta Landfill Gas Recovery Project to use the nursery while they are at work.

This project from Elektrik Üretim A.Ş., installs 16 wind turbines (3 megawatts each) in the southern Turkish province on the Mediterranean coast, in Hatay.

When fully operational, the project will prevent the emission of 60,226 tonnes of CO2 each year.

The scarcity of wood coupled with high demand for energetic needs has put increasing stress on the natural environment. Reducing the demand for wood fuel is key in easing the pressure on local environments.

This Gold Standard project involves the distribution of around 8,000 domestic fuel-efficient cook stoves to households within the Anseba district, in Eritrea. Annually, this action saves 10,960 tonnes of wood from being burned.


Thanks to its improved efficiency, the stoves will not only reduce the demand for fuel wood by 60%-70%, thereby reducing environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions, but it will also improve the health of women and children who are responsible for managing the stoves.

The project consists in supporting Orange Mamatkheda Wind (OMWPL). This amazing group is installing wind power in the villages of Mandsaur & Ratlam of the district of Madhya Pradesh state, India. The goal of the project is using wind energy to generate electrical power through the installation of Wind Electric Generators (WEG’s). The total installed capacity of the project activity is 100.5 MW (million watts) comprising of 67 ReGen wind turbines of 1500 kW capacity each.

Just to give you a better picture, a wind turbine typically generates 2-3 MW of power — or at least they are capable of producing that kind of power when the wind is really blowing. Of course, the wind doesn’t always blow but, approximately, a typical 2 MW wind turbine can provide electricity for about 350 homes.

In this project located in Dowa, Malawi, the aim is to repair damaged water boreholed and to drill new ones. Without access to these boreholes, the community's only way to get drinkable water is through boiling it. The boiling process is done by using firewood, sending a large amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. 

For this, this project is estimated to prevent almost 50,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.

The project is expected to have a total rated capacity of 75 MW of generated power, which will be supplied to the public electricity grid. The estimated net annual power supply to the grid is 253,000 MWh. The project employs a total of 709 people, 95% of which are Indonesian.

The Sidrap Wind Energy Project Phase 1 is located Mattirotasi and Lainungan Villages, Watang Pulu Sub-district, Sidrap Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. 

This project creates a new biomass power plant in Siltara, Raipur, India. The power plant uses local rice husks waste as the energy source for a new 20 megawatt steam turbine. The rice husks come from within 50KM of the project site. This project will prevent 340,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Moreover, the project operator is enabling the following co-benefits:


- A new health clinic in the village of Kachhe AariDongri; 

- Teachers have been appointed to local schools with salaries paid; 

- Provide scholarships and school trips; 

- Creation of jobs and training centres for girls and women; 

- Installed a new water pump in the village Tada; 

- Provide tankers of water for local communities during summer droughts;

- Creation of new roads in and around the area.

The project consists in the installation of 20 megawatt solar power system in Rajasthan. The goal is to remove emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be around 35,149 tonnes of CO2 per year. In addition to that, the project will produce 35,951 MWh/year of electricity into the grid, which is mainly dominated by thermal/fossil fuel based power plant.

This project is creating a new biomass energy generation plant in the rural Bachu County of the Xinjiang province. The power plant will be fueled by agricultural biomass waste for a new 12 megawatt steam turbine. It is calculated that this project will prevent 340,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.

To understand what this project consists in, let's answer the question 'what does biomass energy generation mean?'.


It is the use of organic materials, such as grass clippings, sawdust, bark and dung, to create electricity through combustion, or be processed in to oil or gas. This is good for two reasons. While burning biomass release carbon in to the atmosphere, it is essentially trading carbon already in the carbon cycle. It cycles from atmosphere to plants and back again. Crucially, it is preventing more carbon entering the cycle by not needing to resort to fossil fuels. Biomass energy generation is described as a “bridge” solution until there is widespread availability of carbon-free electricity.

The project consists in contributing to the Akbuk Wind Power Plant, located in a rural region of Turkey. This power plant has 15 installed wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 31.5MW. The project has managed to displace fossil-fuel energy in the region and create jobs during the construction phase and ongoing maintenance.

The Akbuk plant is famous for its coastal location and is probably one of the most scenic wind farms in the world!

The Santa Marta Landfill Gas Project is located in Chile, in one of the most important landfills in the Santiago region. Its aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing, flaring and generating electricity from the methane gas (LFG) produced at the landfill. The Santa Marta landfill extends over 700 acres and receives approximately 1.3 million metric tons of waste every year. The LFG created by by the waste produces 28 MW of renewable energy into the regional grid.

An important aspect of this Gold Standard-certified project is the plan to continuously support local communities. The project manages to do that through a nursery and day care in Lonquén, as well as investments in school infrastructure. This simultaneously creates new job opportunities for women in these facilities, and allows women working on the Santa Marta Landfill Gas Recovery Project to use the nursery while they are at work.

This project from Elektrik Üretim A.Ş., installs 16 wind turbines (3 megawatts each) in the southern Turkish province on the Mediterranean coast, in Hatay.

When fully operational, the project will prevent the emission of 60,226 tonnes of CO2 each year.