Americas > Verra adopts Peru’s REDD baselines as developers’ backlash to benchmarks continues

Verra adopts Peru’s REDD baselines as developers’ backlash to benchmarks continues

Published 20:54 on July 24, 2024  /  Last updated at 20:54 on July 24, 2024  / Alejandra Padin-Dujon /  Americas, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

Verra’s revamped methodology for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) includes a module for unplanned avoided deforestation that sets jurisdictional baselines instead of relying on project-specific ones, but it will lift the Peruvian government’s nationally set REDD reference level, Carbon Pulse heard on a stakeholder webinar Wednesday.
Verra’s revamped methodology for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) includes a module for unplanned avoided deforestation that sets jurisdictional baselines instead of relying on project-specific ones, but it will lift the Peruvian government’s nationally set REDD reference level, Carbon Pulse heard on a stakeholder webinar Wednesday.


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