Cerrado Carbon Project

Carbon Project

The Cerrado is Brazil's second-largest biome and one of the most biodiverse savannahs on Earth, home to jaguars, giant anteaters and maned wolves. Only about 8% of it sits inside a formal conservation area, and since 1985 nearly half of its native vegetation has been cleared for soy, corn and cattle.

Brazil's Forest Code lets private landholders legally clear a large share of their native vegetation. This project changes that math: conservation agreements and annual carbon payments make protecting the land worth more than clearing it.

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How the Project Works

Conservation Agreements

Each landholder signs a 30-year, legally binding agreement to keep native vegetation standing.

Carbon

Annual carbon payments make protecting the land worth more than clearing it.

Protection on the Ground

Guards, surveillance, a trained fire brigade, and satellite and drone monitoring.

Community

Local jobs, community enterprises and native seedlings for reforestation.

Take a Closer Look

Location: Niquelândia, Goiás, Brazil (Cerrado biome)

Project Type: Avoided planned conversion, grouped project

Size: 11,509 hectares of native Cerrado in the verified project area

Carbon Benefits: Keeps carbon stored above ground and deep in the soil from being released by planned clearing for agriculture

Co-Benefits: 27 mammal species documented on camera traps, including jaguar, giant anteater and maned wolf. River headwaters in a biome that feeds 8 of Brazil's 12 major watersheds. 67 people employed on site, plus community enterprises and over 287,000 native seedlings donated

Project Developers: RA Brazil (Ecosystem Regeneration Associates), with technical partner ECCON Soluções Ambientais

Certification: Verra VCS and CCB Standards

Registry and Credit Type: Verra, VCS 2465 · Avoidance

Vintages: 2021 to 2023

Image Credit: Indigenous Leadership Initiative

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Room to Grow with the Project

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We acknowledge that our company is based on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Nations — xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).

The Cerrado Avoided Conversion Project