This flyer introduces the Architecture for REDD+ Transitions (ART) and The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) within the GREEN for Riau Initiative. ART serves as a global voluntary carbon program for the registration, verification, and issuance of high-quality REDD+ emission reduction credits to countries and jurisdictions, while TREES provides technical requirements for carbon accounting, safeguards, verification, registration, and jurisdictional crediting.
The document explains how ART TREES supports Riau Province in strengthening the integrity of forestry emission reductions and opening opportunities for large-scale investment in forest protection and restoration. It highlights key TREES components, including carbon credit accounting and crediting, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV), environmental and social safeguards, reversal and leakage risk management, benefit-sharing arrangements, and stakeholder participation through FPIC consultation.
The flyer also describes the ART TREES mechanism, which includes emissions monitoring, independent verification, ART Board approval, public registry recording, and issuance of TREES Credits with unique serial numbers. Through this framework, GREEN for Riau supports transparent, accountable, and equitable REDD+ implementation while promoting better management of forests, peatlands, mangroves, and other landscapes in Riau Province.