Redd Forests Pty Ltd is a forestry carbon project development business designed to apply commercially viable methodologies to replace activities that degrade or destroy the world’s forests.

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Redd Forests works with landowners (including governments) of native forests which are under threat from logging or land use change.

We calculate the carbon, biodiversity and ecological values of these forests as standing assets and through their carbon sequestration potential. We then capture those values in international and domestic markets. Where the environmental value of a forest exceeds the income potential from traditional forestry activities, we believe it is logical that landowners will choose to protect and enhance their land, rather than degrading it.

As the value of carbon, water and biodiversity continues to rise, it follows that protecting these forests will become an increasingly attractive and competitive income source for their owners and traditional managers.

What is REDD?

Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, or REDD, is a method of avoiding the release of CO2 emissions from deforestation and, by using these forests as carbon sinks, abate future CO2 emissions.

It is estimated that 12% of the CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by human activity comes from deforestation and, as a major greenhouse gas, contributes significantly to global climate change.

Scientific studies have concluded that native forests store significant quantities of carbon. As CO2 is increasingly valued as a commodity, it is now commercially attractive to commit forested land to long-term protection from deforestation, and generate certificates from the stored carbon for trading on world markets.

The international community has now recognised the need for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and enhancing carbon stocks through improved forest management (IFM) as a vital component of a comprehensive solution to the climate change problem (see Section 6 of the Copenhagen Accord).

The co-benefits of forest protection – biodiversity conservation, maintenance of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation – are also worthy of acknowledgment. The colour of carbon matters.