Agroforestry &
Peatland Restoration
Peatlands store approximately twice as much carbon as all the world's forests combined, despite covering just 3% of land area. Agroforestry systems integrate trees with smallholder agriculture, building carbon while improving food security. Together, these landscape-scale interventions offer some of the highest co-benefit density in the Teravent registry.
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Peatlands are the Earth's most carbon-dense terrestrial ecosystem per unit area. Formed over thousands of years from partially decomposed organic matter in waterlogged conditions, they contain approximately 550-650 Gt of carbon globally - more than all living terrestrial vegetation combined. When drained for agriculture or plantations, peatlands become massive carbon sources: Indonesian peat drainage alone releases approximately 500 Mt of CO₂ annually.
Peatland restoration - primarily through hydrological restoration (rewetting) - is one of the highest-impact and most cost-effective climate interventions. Rewetted peatlands rapidly shift from net carbon sources to carbon-neutral or even carbon-sink status.
Agroforestry systems - integrating perennial trees with crops or livestock - sequester carbon in biomass and soils while improving food security, income diversification, and ecosystem resilience for smallholder farmers across the Global South. Teravent's agroforestry methodology accounts for tree biomass, soil carbon, and litter carbon across the full system boundary.
Project types accepted
The following variants of the Agroforestry & Peatlands pathway are currently eligible for registration in the Teravent Registry.
Measurement, reporting
& verification
Teravent's Science Advisory Board assesses each pathway against four MRV dimensions. These scores reflect the current state of measurement science and are updated as methodology evolves.
Peatland carbon accounting requires subsidence monitoring, water table depth records, and gas flux measurements (CO₂ and CH₄) to establish the full greenhouse gas balance. Agroforestry carbon estimation uses allometric equations for tree biomass combined with Teravent MRP-02 permanent plot protocols. Methane emissions from rewetted peatlands are explicitly modelled per IPCC Wetlands Supplement guidance.
Key registration criteria
Projects must meet all of the following minimum requirements to be considered for registration under the Agroforestry & Peatlands pathway. Additional requirements may apply depending on project size, geography, and specific methodology version.
Sustainable Development
Goal alignment
All Teravent-registered Agroforestry & Peatlands projects must complete an SDG impact assessment at registration and at each verification period. 8 SDGs are tracked for this pathway.
Focus region: SE Asia, Congo Basin, Latin America - where co-benefits for communities and ecosystems are most significant and credit demand most transformational.
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