Our Approach
Creating Long-term Value Through Carbon-eligible Landscape Restoration
At Eden: People+Planet, we implement large-scale landscape restoration that generates verified carbon credits while creating thriving environments for communities and ecosystems. Our blended finance approach combines carbon market revenues with strategic partnerships to drive 40-year commitments to restoration. By addressing environmental degradation through sustainable finance and community engagement, we create lasting value from healthy landscapes where people and nature prosper together. We believe that when communities have a long-term stake in restored ecosystems, we build resilient solutions for generations to come.
Landscape Restoration
Eden implements a standards-based landscape restoration approach designed for carbon market eligibility and blended finance solutions. Our methodology delivers verified carbon credits through comprehensive ecosystem restoration, supported by 40-year commitments to ensure long-term climate impact and biodiversity gains.
Our landscape approach recognizes that:
- Ecosystems function through interconnected relationships between plants, animals, water, soil, and people
- Restoration must address multiple ecological functions simultaneously
- Communities are integral parts of landscapes, not separate from them
- Long-term success requires addressing both environmental and social factors
Through rigorous evaluation of carbon-eligible landscapes, we develop long-term restoration strategies that generate verified carbon credits while creating resilient ecosystems and sustainable community benefits.
Our 40-year commitment to each landscape enables blended finance solutions that may include:
Strategic reforestation with native species for carbon sequestration
Carbon-eligible landscape restoration for verified credits
Long-term forest conservation with 40-year commitments
Blended finance solutions for sustainable landscape management
Carbon credit verification and monitoring systems
Long-term ecosystem service markets development
By structuring blended finance solutions for each carbon-eligible landscape, we ensure restoration activities generate verified carbon credits while delivering lasting ecological and community benefits over our 40-year commitments.
Community Partnerships
At the foundation of our work is the understanding that local communities are essential partners in developing carbon-eligible landscapes and long-term restoration projects. We collaborate with communities to create 40-year commitments that generate verified carbon credits while ensuring sustainable livelihoods and ecological restoration.
This blended finance approach includes:
- Creating multi-stakeholder platforms where diverse voices can shape restoration plans
- Building on traditional ecological knowledge alongside modern scientific understanding
- Developing local capacity for long-term landscape management
- Ensuring equitable benefit-sharing from restoration activities
By aligning community leadership with carbon market opportunities, we create restoration initiatives that generate verified carbon credits while advancing local priorities. This approach ensures communities benefit from both immediate economic incentives and long-term landscape value through 40-year commitments.
Our implementation teams combine local community expertise with blended finance solutions, creating sustainable employment while building capacity in carbon-eligible restoration. This approach establishes lasting economic and environmental value that grows within communities across decades of partnership.
Long-Term Commitment
Meaningful landscape restoration requires sustained commitment. Our integrated approach combines blended finance with carbon market opportunities, backed by a minimum 40-year commitment to each landscape. This extended timeframe ensures the permanence of climate benefits and enables robust carbon credit verification.
This long-term perspective allows:
- Natural systems to progress through succession stages toward maturity
- Communities to develop new relationships with their landscapes
- Governance systems to evolve and strengthen
- Economic models to transition toward sustainability
Our extended commitment recognizes that creating verified, high-quality carbon credits and sustainable landscape transformation requires patience and dedication. By combining innovative financing with decades-long engagement, we create lasting ecological value while generating reliable returns for investors and communities. This approach ensures both immediate climate action and long-term environmental resilience.
Identify + Assess
We prioritize carbon-eligible landscapes and blended finance solutions that generate long-term value through climate impact, community benefits, and biodiversity enhancement.
Vision + Design
We co-develop 40-year restoration commitments with communities, governments, and investors, creating verified carbon credits while ensuring sustainable economic opportunities for local stakeholders.
Implement + Innovate
We implement restoration initiatives that meet international carbon market standards, delivering measurable climate outcomes while preserving each landscape’s unique ecological and social values.
Monitor + Adapt
We apply rigorous carbon accounting standards and independent verification to generate high-quality, market-ready carbon credits while ensuring transparent impact measurement.
Sustain + Support
We structure blended finance solutions combining carbon market revenues, public funding, and private capital to sustain 40-year restoration commitments and strengthen local governance systems.
Throughout these phases, we maintain adaptable financing and monitoring frameworks to optimize both ecological outcomes and carbon credit generation.
Standards & Science
Our work is grounded in rigorous carbon measurement protocols and internationally recognized standards for nature-based solutions. We combine scientific monitoring with verified carbon methodologies to deliver high-integrity credits over 40-year commitments.
Key elements of our technical approach include:
- Baseline assessments that document current ecological and social conditions
- Reference ecosystems that guide restoration targets and techniques
- Monitoring systems that track progress and support adaptive management
- Transparent reporting that documents outcomes and lessons learned
We emphasize rigorous carbon measurement and verification, recognizing that blended finance and carbon markets require robust methodologies and long-term commitments. Our technical team maintains the highest standards in carbon accounting while collaborating with financial and scientific partners to maximize returns.
For carbon-eligible landscapes, we follow internationally recognized methodologies verified by third-party standards to ensure 40-year commitments generate verified carbon credits. Our verification processes meet the demands of institutional investors and carbon markets.
Four Returns Framework
Our landscape restoration work follows a blended finance approach focused on carbon-eligible landscapes and verified carbon credits. Through 40-year commitments and nature-based solutions, we create lasting environmental and social impact while generating returns for investors and communities.
Our integrated approach delivers multiple returns through:
Return of Inspiration
Building long-term partnerships between investors, communities and carbon markets to restore degraded landscapes
Return of Social Capital
Structuring blended finance solutions and developing carbon-eligible landscapes
Return of Natural Capital
Generating verified carbon credits through nature-based solutions and 40-year commitments
Return of Financial Capital
Creating long-term value through sustainable carbon markets and community prosperity
Through this framework, we leverage blended finance and carbon markets to create lasting ecological and economic value. Our 40-year commitments ensure verified carbon credits while delivering sustainable outcomes that transform landscapes and communities for generations to come.
Join Our Community of Restoration Supporters
By becoming a monthly supporter, you help advance our blended finance approach to landscape restoration. Your recurring gift catalyzes carbon market investments and enables long-term ecological transformation through nature-based solutions that span decades.