Webinar: Carbon Credits for Communities, Conservation and Climate

Recording of a webinar held on 11 June 2021 with Dr. Tim Tear of the Biodiversity Research Institute and moderators Conrad Aveling and Romain Calaque (EU B4Life Facility).

The market for carbon credits is evolving rapidly as more and more countries and companies commit to carbon neutrality. In sub-Saharan Africa, where 62% of land is rangeland (dry woodlands and grasslands), approximately 40% of it classified as degraded, there is an enormous potential to develop carbon initiatives that can bring transformational change for biodiversity and livelihoods. The aim of this webinar is to showcase successful examples from rangelands in Eastern and Southern African where soil carbon initiatives are giving local communities an incentive to invest in land management practices that reverse land degradation, build resilience to climate change, enhance biodiversity conservation and create opportunities for sustainable socio-economic development – key pillars of the EU Green Deal. The webinar highlights the opportunities to develop similar initiatives in West and Central Africa. (Intro photo: G. Dubois)