Shell Environmental Products’ project portfolio

Conservation projects are nature-based solutions, or natural climate solutions, which protect, transform or restore land. In this way, nature absorbs more CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere.

Conservation projects reduce emissions through preventing deforestation and forest degradation. Protecting forests ensures that the carbon stored in them is not emitted, as well as protecting biodiversity.

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is a mechanism developed by Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to incentivise actions that prevent forest loss and degradation. REDD+ goes beyond simply reducing deforestation and forest degradation, and includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. All of the conservation projects in our portfolio are REDD+ projects.

Reforestation projects are nature-based solutions, or natural climate solutions, which protect, transform or restore land. In this way, nature absorbs more CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere.

Reforestation projects plant trees, either in an area where there have never been trees (afforestation) or on a site of previous deforestation (reforestation). Carbon is captured from the atmosphere by the trees as they grow and is stored, helping to reduce the overall levels of carbon in the atmosphere.

Not only do trees take CO₂ from the air, planting new forests generates co-benefits including: increasing biodiversity, restoring ground water, preventing soil erosion and flash flooding, and providing communities with food, shade and income.

Cookstove projects are a type of household device projects that reduce carbon emissions by providing more fuel-efficient cook stoves.

Around 1 billion tonnes of CO₂ are produced by open fires every year and contribute 25% of global black carbon emissions. With the provision of high performance cookstoves families can reduce the CO₂ emitted and can reduce household air pollution, the cause of 4.3 million deaths annually. With more efficient cookstoves, families can also save the time spent collecting wood or the money spent on fuel.

(Source: https://envirofit.org/our-story/#our-story)