Projects

Climate Stewards projects reduce CO₂ in the air, support people facing poverty, and protect wildlife. These projects are innovative, and we will keep improving them as we go.

Current projects
Ghana	Full operation (year 3)
South Africa	Pilot operation
Peru	Feasibility
Kenya	Proposal

Tropical forests play a key role in regulating the amount of CO₂ in the air. As they grow, forests absorb huge amounts of CO₂ from the air and store it as wood and roots. Currently more than 400 billion tons of carbon is stored in forests. When forests are cut down their stored carbon may eventually be released into the atmosphere. Deforestation accounts for 20% of current CO₂ emissions.

Forests also contain as much as 90% of the world's terrestrial animal and plant life; provide food, shelter and fuel for people in extreme poverty; regulate global water cycles; and reduce soil erosion.

Climate Stewards is part of A Rocha, an international family of conservation projects working in 18 countries on five continents. It is the local national organization of A Rocha which implements our projects (eg A Rocha Ghana). This enables us to work closely with local communities, involving them in the planning, management and maintenance of the projects.

Our projects are designed to meet the high international standards of the Climate Community Biodiversity Alliance. Our Ghana projects are being assessed throughout 2009.

While our first projects are forest-based, we are also committed to run fuel efficiency and renewable energy projects when resources allow..

Climate change is happening because CO₂ in the air is increasing. Its worst impacts are on people and wildlife in places where there is poverty, including Africa.

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