Project Types

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• Hydro power

  

  Hydroelectric power, or hydropower, is electricity generated from the energy of moving water.

  The water is released into large turbines and the pressure makes the turbine blades rotate. The rotation moves a shaft connected to an electrical generator which converts the kinetic energy into electrical energy. The amount of energy produced mainly depends on the volume of water and the height difference between the water source and the turbines.

  
  There are several types of hydroelectric facilities including:
  • Impoundments use large reservoirs to restrict the flow of water and then kinetic energy is produced when the water is released.
  • Run-of-river projects use the natural flow of waterways to produce kinetic energy.
  • Pumped storage produces electricity by moving water between reservoirs at different elevations during peak times.

• Conservation - based forest management

  

  Conservation-based forest management is the use of long-term natural forest management practices to ensure forests continue to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Deforestation is responsible for between 15 and 20% of global carbon emissions and the protection of our existing forests is essential to the reduction of carbon emissions around the world.

  Activities include tending, thinning out, felling, regeneration/planting and fertilisation enabling the forest to grow as sustainably and productively as possible.  Forests grown and protected in this way also improve wildlife habitat, biodiversity, water quality and sustainable economic development.

  As forests grow the trees absorb or soak up CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester or hold it within their growing biomass (trunk, branches, leaves and root systems). This sequestered carbon stock is reliant on the forest remaining intact.  Although some CO2 is released as the forest ‘breathes’, a forest that is growing and sustainable absorbs more carbon than it releases.

  These forests are frequently covered by a conservation easement on the property which is a legal guarantee that the project’s carbon stocks remain protected through the project’s life and beyond through sustainable forest management.

  In the unlikely event that a natural disturbance results in the loss of forest carbon, the easement terms enable the restoration of the forest and, as a result, carbon stocks.

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