What we do
Policy and scientific writing, research, and editing; on
Carbon markets, development issues and capacity development
Critical issues of soil carbon and terrestrial carbon
sequestration, food security, improved livelihoods
and Payment for Environmental Services.
Why we do it
A good idea diligently applied is sustainable. If it can be done by anyone for any amount of time with no significant detriment, it's sustainable.
Sustainability applies to management of land, vegetation and production systems, but also to operational efficiency, integration of agendas and a just and appropriate human interface.
Shed what's not working, work out what’s missing, add that, then carefully integrate the parts to achieve above sum gains. You just created a new paradigm.
The Single Ecosystem shows us we are all on the same page of history.
So we work together, yes?
C Restored took wing in 2008 with a report commissioned by Environmental Defense Fund on US Rangelands and climate change. We made this paper the focus of a social media campaign targeted towards delegates at the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen. Result - it was downloaded 1111 times in one week.
The report was then picked up by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation for its book Grassland carbon sequestration: management, policy and economics. This was followed by consulting on an OECD paper on Capacity development for the agricultural sector in developing countries.
Subsequent papers include an upcoming World Bank study on the integration of grazing systems in developing countries into climate change mechanisms, including the Clean Development Mechanism and the Verified Carbon Standard.
C Restored administers a twice-monthly newsletter for the UN FAO Grasslands Carbon Working Group, which comprises leading researchers, policy makers and environmental and economic pioneers. We led content generation for an intranet portal for scientist-proposal writers at the World Agroforestry Center, based in Kenya.
Creating quality, accessible documents is very important. Communicating with people - and knowing how to do so - is essential. Learning lessons from democracy movements in the Middle East, we learnt how to push the social media envelope. Communication not marketing. If you believe in what you are doing, just share.Have a sustainable life.
C is the chemical symbol for carbon.
Each ton of soil or tree carbon takes or retains 3.67 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Only in recent decades did total accumulated
CO2
emissions from the burning of fossil fuels exceed
CO2
in the atmosphere from losses of ecosystem carbon due to land use change and human-driven degradation.
Let's put things right.