The Katingan Restoration and Conservation Project (‘The Katingan Project’) protects and restores 149,800 hectares of peatland ecosystems, to offer local communities sustainable sources of income, and to tackle global climate change. The project lies within the districts of Katingan and Kotawaringin Timur in Central Kalimantan Province and covers one of the largest remaining intact peat swamp forests in Indonesia.
Founded in 2005, Verra is a global leader helping tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges by developing and managing standards that help the private sector, countries, and civil society achieve ambitious sustainable development and climate action goals. Verra’s global standards and frameworks serve as linchpins for channeling finance towards high-impact activities that tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues of our day.
Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone, everywhere.
Careful management of our global supply of water is a key feature of a sustainable future.
Sustainably managing forests, combating desertification, halting and reversing land degradation, and halting biodiversity loss.
Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.
