Our projects

Climate Stewards was set up by the international Christian nature conservation organization A Rocha. Through A Rocha’s unique family of global links, Climate Stewards is able to develop projects that will help the climate, people and wildlife. Projects are running or planned in a number of countries:

Ghana          in second year

South Africa  approved but awaiting funding

Peru             awaiting feasibility study

Kenya          awaiting feasibility study

Climate Stewards is working in partnership with local communities, involving them in the planning, management and maintenance of the projects. We invest time and money in the research and design of our projects to ensure they deliver benefits to the climate, local communities and the wildlife. Local people will only commit their support, which is essential to the long term success of our projects, if they understand the benefits. There is no point planting trees if we do nothing to address the reasons why trees were lost in the first place.

Our first projects involve planting trees which absorb CO₂ back out of the atmosphere. By planting a range of indigenous species they also create a good habitat for a wide range of other species of plants and animals as well as for local people.

We also plan to run fuel efficiency and renewable energy projects. By helping poor communities to reduce their use of fossil fuels we can offset your carbon emissions and improve their well being by giving them clean energy for development. Replacing open fires by fuel efficient stoves means people have to spend much less time looking for wood to cook their food. Renewable energy projects, like solar panels, wind or water mills reduce the dependency of remote communities on diesel generators. In projects like this it is much easier to calculate the amount of CO₂ saved.

To ensure best practice and high standards, Climate Stewards projects will be directly supervised by A Rocha and independently verified to the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance Standards.

By 10 January 2007 the average UK citizen had emitted as much CO₂ as the average citizen of Ghana would emit in the whole year.
World Development Movement climate calendar