This REDD project protects the native forests of Tasmania by making it more profitable for local people to engage in sustainable forest management practices than fell trees and degrade the land. In addition to preserving biodiversity (such as the endangered Tasmanian devil) and protecting the livelihoods of forest-dwelling communities, managing these forests in a sustainable way will also contribute significantly to preventing carbon emissions.

The Kasigau REDD project prevents deforestation and forest degradation, helping to protect wildlife and promote biodiversity in 500,000 acres of highly endangered Kenyan forest. With a focus on job creation, the project seeks to enable local communities to develop a sustainable source of income and improve their livelihoods, without resorting to ‘slash and burn’ agriculture.

This project enables low-income families in Shanxi Province to replace conventional, fossil-fuel burning cookstoves with subsidised ‘semi-gasifiers’ – efficient heating and cooking stoves that use leftover organic matter from crop harvesting such as corn cobs.

The Bangkok Kamphaeng Saen East project is Thailand’s first landfill gas project. It converts methane emissions from landfill waste into electricity, channelling it into the country’s national grid. The methane (a potent greenhouse gas) would otherwise escape into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change.

The Ecomapuá REDD project preserves around 90,000 hectares of the Amazon rainforest on Marajó Island, at the mouth of the Amazon River, by making it more economically advantageous to protect the area rather than open it up to logging – a major cause of deforestation in the region.

The Winchester Landfill Gas (LFG) project is expanding and rehabilitating a landfill gas collection system at the Frederick County Regional Landfill, Virginia. It is firstly improving an existing waste collection and control system and constructing a new one, and secondly, installing generators to destroy LFG methane and produce electricity.