What do the 6 points in the Planting Partner Contract cover?
- Planting approach supports biodiversity, with mixed natural species creating a habitat suitable to the area.
- Each contract is linked to an area of publicly accessible forest.
- 99-year maintenance and protection contracts to ensure permanence. Uniquely in harmony with the lifetime of CO₂ in the atmosphere. Existing credits only have a 40-year protection so they don’t work.
- All additionality issues addressed, meaning that contributions directly result in actual trees planted.
- Provision against ‘force majeure’, e.g. new roads through forests.
- Indigenous – Local People. Human rights are at the core of the Balance methodology. Climate action should be consistent with human rights obligations that create income for local people.