Since 2005, Verra has been committed to helping reduce emissions, improve livelihoods and protect natural resources across the private and public sectors. It supports climate action and sustainable development with standards, tools and programs that credibly, transparently and robustly assess environmental and social impacts and enable funding for sustaining and scaling up these benefits. Verra works in any arena where it sees a need for clear standards, a role for market-based mechanisms and an opportunity to achieve environmental and social good.
Verra brings to the Initiative 20x20 a range of relevant standards frameworks, programs and new opportunities for collaboration, including:
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Its VCS AFOLU program, the world’s leading standard to account for greenhouse gas emission reductions and removals from agriculture and forestry-related projects and programs, including afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR) and improved forest management (IFM).
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Its framework to measure, monitor, communicate and incentivize landscape-scale outcomes of sustainability efforts (including restoration), the Landscape Standard (LS). LS is under development by a collaborative partnership between Verra and Rainforest Alliance, the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Nature Conservation Research Centre in Ghana (NCRC), Proforest and Solidaridad, and includes piloting in Ghana, Guatemala, Peru and Costa Rica (where there is a focus on restoration).
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Significant experience engaging with country governments and other stakeholders on accounting for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals, sustainable development benefits and other sustainability-related outcomes under our Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ framework, the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency, the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SDVISta) and the Landscape Standard.
Verra looks forward to engaging with Initiative 2020 and to contributing to workshops and events, as well as technical discussion related to measuring and incentivizing restoration impacts on the landscape.
Since 2005, Verra has been committed to helping reduce emissions, improve livelihoods and protect natural resources across the private and public sectors. It supports climate action and sustainable development with standards, tools and programs that credibly, transparently and robustly assess environmental and social impacts and enable funding for sustaining and scaling up these benefits. Verra works in any arena where it sees a need for clear standards, a role for market-based mechanisms and an opportunity to achieve environmental and social good.
Verra brings to the Initiative 20x20 a range of relevant standards frameworks, programs and new opportunities for collaboration, including:
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Its VCS AFOLU program, the world’s leading standard to account for greenhouse gas emission reductions and removals from agriculture and forestry-related projects and programs, including afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR) and improved forest management (IFM).
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Its framework to measure, monitor, communicate and incentivize landscape-scale outcomes of sustainability efforts (including restoration), the Landscape Standard (LS). LS is under development by a collaborative partnership between Verra and Rainforest Alliance, the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Nature Conservation Research Centre in Ghana (NCRC), Proforest and Solidaridad, and includes piloting in Ghana, Guatemala, Peru and Costa Rica (where there is a focus on restoration).
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Significant experience engaging with country governments and other stakeholders on accounting for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals, sustainable development benefits and other sustainability-related outcomes under our Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ framework, the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency, the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SDVISta) and the Landscape Standard.
Verra looks forward to engaging with Initiative 2020 and to contributing to workshops and events, as well as technical discussion related to measuring and incentivizing restoration impacts on the landscape.
