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Project Types

Carbone Terre à Terre project types

Guided by Carbone Terre à Terre (CTaT) core principles, the following Nature based Solution (NbS) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) project types (methodologies) are being targeted in partnership with First Nations communities and other stakeholders.

Agroforestry ARR integrated with BiCRS

Agroforestry-oriented Afforestation Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR) projects integrated with a dedicated feedstock BiCRS (Biological Carbon Removal and Storage) on farmers' land. These projects offer high levels of permanence, biodiversity, transparency and certainty regarding carbon and non carbon co-benefits greatly improving the livelihoods and resilience of participating farmers. These projects also create a strong set of ecosystem services within critical landscapes in need of restoration. The ARR component of this ARR-BiCRS integration combo is extremely durable (+500 years), placing it in the same CDR class as the dedicated feedstock BiCRS component made to the Isometric standard with a minimum permanence of 1,000 years.

Indigenous-led fuel-reduction thinning BiCRS

CTaT is facilitating Indigenous-led, nature-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) projects. These projects include fuel-reduction thinning BiCRS (Biological Carbon Removal and Storage), which is done to the Isometric standard. These projects target forests affected by major defoliator outbreaks, forests stressed by climate change (with high mortality), and overstocked younger forests. These forests have a high likelihood of being ignited and destroyed by wildfires, which threaten communities, critical social infrastructure, and biodiversity hotspots, while releasing massive volumes of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Another type of high-value CDR project that CTaT is presently planning to pilot with First Nations, like the Innu Council of Pessamit, is dedicated feedstock BiCRS projects that generate community wildfire interface fire breaks to protect vulnerable boreal and montane communities.

Indigenous-led Improved Forest Management (IFM)

CTaT is facilitating Logged-to-Protected and Low Impact Harvesting variants of Improved Forest Management (IFM) projects led by indigenous communities. These projects offer a much better expression of indigenous rights, title, and co-management of their traditional territories. Through this type of IFM, coupled with ARR and BiCRS activities, CTaT is facilitating a shift from unsustainable, extractive forest economies to resilient circular bioeconomies that can withstand extreme climate events.

Climate Mitigation Projects

The following core criteria are considered when selecting core afforestation and reforestation (ARR) pilot types. Carbone Terre à Terre (CTaT) targets ARR activity types that:

Project selection criteria

  • Are within CTaT’s core delivery capacity and reach in relation to both forest carbon project development and implementation/buildout capacities.
  • Are geographically centered where key partners have been actively engaged in socially responsible and innovative resource stewardship for decades. They have a particular focus on collaboration with indigenous peoples.
  • Are able to benefit from the strong, existing working relationships of trust with key stakeholders within these key geographies.
  • Are able to address critical climate emergency challenges and mitigation opportunities in key geographies and globally.
  • Are technically and financially feasible, and have a high level of permanence.
  • Are scalable.
  • Maintain a strong foundation of social responsibility in how projects are launched and governed, as well as how costs and revenues are shared.
  • Have the potential to play a key part in reconciliation with First Nation/indigenous peoples.
  • Have the potential to reduce the risk of major future losses in forest carbon stocks and other important non carbon values on adjacent forests.