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Voluntary Carbon Emission Reductions

Voluntary Emission Reduction Project

Trees4Good’s Voluntary Emission Reduction programs directly invest in social economic and reforestation projects in the Klias Peninsula in the Malaysian state of Sabah. The project’s focal area is located in a rare diverse complex of coastal wetland habitats, ranging from mud flat mangroves to peat swamps forests and intermediate ecosystems.

Providing a sustainable income for rural communities

Dwindling fish stocks in the South China Sea has forced villagers to seek out alternative income sources to support their families. Due to nutrient deficient, acidic soils found in and around wetland Peat Swamp forests a number of smallholding cash crop projects have failed to produce sustainable yields. These include but are not limited to the cultivation of rice, oil palm, cocoa, rubber, corn, cashew nut and fruit trees.

Aiming to utilise marginal land

The project objective is to provide sustainable income to households utilising scrub lands while sequestering carbon. This is key to alleviating pressure on the remaining natural forests. Following two years of research Trees4Good has identified two non-invasive naturalised cash crops, which produce sustainable yields on nutrient deficient soils: Jatropha Curcas and Pongamia Pinnata.

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If you want to make an immediate impact on the planet, why not buy a tree to help save the tropical rainforests Borneo.

The Importance of Tropical Rain forests

Rainforests are rich ecosystems that play a primary role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Borneo is home to the world’s oldest Rainforests containing some of the highest levels of plant diversity on Earth, with over 15,000 plant species, of which 6,000 are endemic. In addition to Orang-utans, elephants and rhinos, Borneo is home to over 500 species of reptiles, birds and mammals. New species are constantly being discovered. Between 1994 and 2004 at least 361 new species were identified.

Forces behind the loss

Since the mid 1980’s industrial timber concessions, natural fires, illegal logging and commercial agricultural projects have inflicted a succession of catastrophic assaults upon Borneo’s fragile ecosystem. Due to the nutrient-deficient, acidic soils found in tropical forests many cash crops including: rice, oil palm, cocoa and rubber have failed leaving vast areas of scrubland. This in turn produced social economic problems creating further pressures on both protected and community forest reserves.

To help us preserve areas under threat please make a donation towards helping us regenerate these areas. Some of the companies that have already supported the smallholders projects in Sabah. (Click to see their logos)