Actions in this pledge

• Restoring and growing trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Assisted natural regeneration

  Actions that support natural regeneration without tree planting, such as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, forest soil remediation, exotic species control, disease prevention, and wildfire protection

  Reforestation

  Re-establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land classified as forest, that has been degraded or where trees are unlikely to regenerate naturally

  Agroforestry

  Activities that establish and manage the integration of trees into agricultural landscapes, silvopastoral systems, farming in forests and along forest margins and tree-crop production

  Mangrove restoration

  Establishment or enhancement of mangroves along coastal areas and in estuaries

  Urban tree planting

  Planting and maintaining trees within urban areas

  Additional details

  Aspiration has a robust monitoring system in place to ensure the success and accountability of all planting projects in its portfolio. We work with our planting partners to collect ground level data on tree growth, health and survival for initial tree plantings as well as seedling nursery operations. We then use remote sensing to monitor planted trees once they are visible after 2-3 years of growth to ensure they are growing well throughout the planting area. Remote sensing is also used to track large scale threats to the landscape such as natural disasters or anthropogenic degradation. Aspiration also conducts annual site visits to project sites to verify tree plantings, monitor health and survival of planted trees and discuss with partners any potential risks, challenges or opportunities for the project. Lastly, 3rd party verification occurs for all carbon projects following the carbon registry's standard methodology.

  

  Restoring & Growing

  Trees

  1 billion

• Enabling activities for trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Nursery and seedling development

  Establish tree nurseries, including actions such as identification and collection of seeds and/or growing seedlings

  Education and capacity building

  Forest / tree species conservation and restoration education programmes, targeted educational and behaviour change campaigns, training and capacity building, including promotion of local and traditional knowledge and practices

  Community mobilisation

  Community mobilisation and engagement activities for conservation, restoration and reforestation, including enabling systems of community governance, etc.

  Data collection, management and technological tools

  Activities that provide data and/or technological tools to support conservation and restoration (e.g. monitoring etc.)

  Financial innovation

  Activities that create additional financial opportunities and incentives for conservation, restoration and reforestation (e.g. blended financing vehicles, etc.)

  Additional details

  Aspiration funded planting sites support not only forest restoration, but also provide capacity building for local reforestation organizations and surrounding communities engaged in the projects. We provide support for organizations to improve or expand seedling nursery operations as well as develop and utilize technological innovations for seedling and planting monitoring to improve efficiency at scale. Our projects also engage local communities by providing employment opportunities, hands-on training and capacity building, as well as supporting food security through agroforestry projects.

  

  Enabling