What are some examples of different types of carbon credit projects? How do avoided emissions and carbon removal projects differ?
Some of the most common project types include renewable energy, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), improved forest management, reforestation/afforestation, improved cookstoves, and methane capture or avoidance at landfills and dairy farms. Carbon projects, which are either nature-based or technology-based, can address GHG emissions in two ways: by avoiding the release of greenhouse gasses […]
- Some of the most common project types include renewable energy, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), improved forest management, reforestation/afforestation, improved cookstoves, and methane capture or avoidance at landfills and dairy farms.
- Carbon projects, which are either nature-based or technology-based, can address GHG emissions in two ways: by avoiding the release of greenhouse gasses and/or removing carbon from the atmosphere.
- Avoided emissions projects focus on avoiding the release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. For example, dairy farms can implement manure management systems that capture methane, which otherwise would have been released into the atmosphere.
- Carbon removal projects pull or sequester carbon from the atmosphere. For example: planting trees and using them as natural carbon sinks that store carbon in their trunks and roots.
