TREES 2.0 In August 2021, the ART Board approved The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES), Version 2.0. The first version of TREES, published in February 2020, focused on emission reductions from reducing deforestation and forest degradation – the most urgent priority for the forest sector. TREES 2.0 expands its scope to include other necessary actions that can be undertaken, as ...
ART issues on its registry TREES Credits that have been independently verified to meet the measurement, monitoring, reporting and safeguards requirements of its jurisdictional crediting standard TREES, The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard.
ART’s standard for measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification, The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard, known as TREES, is based on a decade of learning and evolution of REDD+.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The ART Secretariat would like to thank the ART Interim Steering Committee members who devoted considerable time in their personal capacities to support and guide the development of the first version of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES): Lorenzo Bernasconi, Andreas Dahl-Jorgensen, Nat Keohane and Dan Zarin. We also appreciate the indispensable technical ...
ART is a carbon crediting program that has a standard called TREES (The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard) for measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification of emission reduction and removal results. Under ART, countries will generate verified emission reduction and removal credits, called TREES Credits.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The ART Secretariat would like to thank the ART Interim Steering Committee members who de-voted considerable time in their personal capacities to support and guide the development of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES): Lorenzo Bernasconi, Andreas Dahl-Jorgensen, Nat Keohane and Dan Zarin.
Secretariat The ART Secretariat, hosted by Winrock International, is responsible for the operation of the ART program, including the development of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) and overseeing the registration, verification and issuance of Board-approved TREES Credits on the ART registry.