Collaboration

Un Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Anthony Mills, Chairperson of C4 EcoSolutions, was contracted by UNEP to develop the strategy for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Decade will play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by preventing and reversing the degradation of ecosystems over hundreds of millions of hectares between 2021 and 2030. This will be achieved by encouraging heads of state and corporations to champion restoration, engaging youth organisations globally, providing a digital hub for catalysing a global movement of restoration volunteers, shifting fossil fuel and agricultural subsidies towards restoration investments, developing bankable business models for large-scale restoration, and fostering a new restoration culture across the world.
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Thicket restoration

Since 2006, C4 has undertaken a wide range of technical advisory services on spekboom thicket restoration for AfriCarbon. This includes preparing a project document that was validated by VERRA, annual monitoring of spekboom restoration experiments, managing the implementation of spekboom restoration over more than 5000 hectares and peer-reviewed baseline monitoring activities that underpin the generation of carbon credits in a thicket restoration project at Kuzuko Private Game Reserve.

Since 2019, the Kuzuko Thicket Restoration Project has restored more than 5000 hectares of degraded land in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Teams from local communities were trained and mobilised to plant cuttings of the indigenous thicket tree commonly known as spekboom. Healthy spekboom thicket creates a favoured habitat for animals and insects. A team of scientists are currently employing verified methods to quantify the millions of tons of carbon dioxide predicted to be captured over the project’s lifespan.

Africarbon

https://africarbon.co.za/

AfriCarbon vision: To transform vast areas in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces of South Africa from a highly degraded state to its former pristine state with a dense, luxuriant growth of indigenous trees and shrubs. AfriCarbon plays the role of catalyser, facilitator, advisor, and participant in the restoration of degraded thicket and the generation of carbon credits, depending on the needs of the restoration project concerned.

Kuzuko

https://kuzukoproject.co.za/

The Kuzuko Thicket Restoration Project will restore more than 5000 hectares of degraded land in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Teams from local communities will be trained to plant cuttings of the indigenous thicket tree commonly known as spekboom. Healthy spekboom thicket creates a favoured habitat for animals and insects. The restored thicket will also capture millions of tons of carbon dioxide over the project’s lifespan.