Wilder Carbon Project | WEBINAR

Hosted by the CIWEM South Eastern branch 

Event description

The last six months has seen the launch of the new Wilder Carbon Standards. Evan-Bowen Jones will talk about this work, the practicalities and the approaches used. Wilder Carbon is the only not-for-profit, high integrity, scalable, natural climate solution in the UK.

Many carbon offsetting projects have rightly been criticised for “greenwashing” and threatening biodiversity. Without a thorough set of standards and clear reporting requirements, landowners keen to get into the underregulated carbon offset markets could end up worsening the natural environment, risking biodiversity and facilitating corporate purchasing of offsets in place of feasible emissions reduction.

To try and address this an expert standards board of leading figures in sustainability has been assembled from government, finance and conservation. Wilder Carbon tasked them with developing a sector-leading programme for assuring the quality of our projects. The standards lay out how we will ensure our pathfinder projects pass rigorous tests on providing genuine carbon capture and improved wildlife.

The standards outline more than 50 new requirements that need to be met to be considered high integrity enough to qualify as a Wilder Carbon project or credit purchaser. These include project deliverers demonstrating a track record for maintaining and restoring sites, the ability to capture significant amounts of carbon for at least 50 years, and the requirement of projects to achieve a minimum measurable biodiversity net gain of 50%.

Part of the CIWEM Biodiversity digital series.

Booking and joining information

This event is open to members and non-members of CIWEM.

This webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform and will be recorded. Please note that registrations will close 24 hours before the event starts. If you have not registered before that time, unfortunately we cannot add you to the event. You will receive an email with joining instructions after you have successfully registered for the webinar and the registration has been approved by our team. If you have any questions about your booking or would like to cancel your attendance, please contact barbara.woods@ciwem.org.

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If you have any queries about this talk, please contact Michaela James at Michaela.james@southeastwater.co.uk.