Ghana advances forest stewardship

TO ACHIEVE national stewardship, Ghana has embarked on a forest restoration and tree planting programme that covers 15,000 hectares of degraded lands in the Asubima Forest Reserve. Managed by Form Ghana, the task will simultaneously generate fungible carbon credits  and  support  the  commercial harvest of teak timber and planting of native tree species.

The SCS Global Services (SCS) under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) has  independently  validated the environmental project,  which according to the audit team has already resulted in the reduction of more than 5,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions over four years on land that was previously degraded by overharvesting, bush fires, and conversion to agricultural land.