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Coastal Mangrove Restoration — Example Project
Coastal Mangrove Restoration — Example Project
Core Score
SolidA solid score driven by strong biodiversity and community co-benefits and Gold Standard verification. The biggest open question is permanence — mangroves can be damaged by storms, disease, or land-use pressure, so reversal risk is the main thing to watch over the project's crediting period.
- Permanence How long the carbon stays locked away
- Moderate
- Leakage risk Whether cutting emissions here just pushes them elsewhere
- Moderate
- Verification quality How rigorously an independent auditor checked this
- Strong
- Co-benefits Extra good it does beyond carbon — jobs, health, biodiversity
- Strong
Illustrative example — this is one of OpenCarbon's example placeholder projects, scored to show how the Core Score works.
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Restoring degraded coastline with native mangrove species, storing carbon in the trees and soil while rebuilding a natural storm buffer and fish nursery habitat.
| Registry | Gold Standard (tree-planting / forest-restoration project type) |
| Developer | [PLACEHOLDER — "Example Developer Co."] |
| Country | [PLACEHOLDER — e.g. Kenya] |
| Vintage | 2025 (the year this emission reduction happened) |
Permanence — the main thing to weigh: Trees can burn down, get sick, or be cut down later, which would undo the carbon storage — this is called "reversal risk." Gold Standard requires this project to set aside extra credits as a safety cushion against that risk. See the Core Score above for our independent read on how well this project manages it.
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