Project Types and Nature-Based Approaches
What are nature-based solutions (NbS)?
NbS use ecosystems to absorb CO₂ and deliver co-benefits like biodiversity, water quality, and community resilience. These include reforestation, mangrove restoration, and regenerative agriculture.
Sentinel Earth specializes in NbS project origination and long-term management — from co-design with communities to credit commercialization at scale.
What is regenerative agriculture?
A nature-based approach that rebuilds soil carbon and ecosystem health through cover cropping, rotational grazing, and minimal tillage.
Sentinel Earth supports regenerative projects that enhance soil carbon and rural resilience.
What is community-based carbon project design?
Engaging local stakeholders to co-develop projects ensures social buy-in, risk mitigation, and equitable benefit sharing.
Sentinel Earth co-designs projects to align with community priorities and long-term success.
What is Afforestation?
Afforestation is the process of establishing forests on land that has not been forested in recent history, converting non-forest areas into carbon-sequestering woodland ecosystems.
Sentinel Earth helps project developers design afforestation projects that meet registry standards and qualify for carbon credit issuance under verified methodologies.
What is Reforestation?
Reforestation is the process of replanting trees on previously forested land that has been cleared, degraded, or deforested, restoring forest ecosystems that sequester carbon while providing biodiversity, water, and livelihood benefits.
Sentinel Earth develops reforestation projects that combine carbon finance with restoration goals, working with communities and landowners to establish forests that deliver verified carbon credits alongside ecological and social co-benefits.
What is Agroforestry?
Agroforestry integrates trees and shrubs into agricultural systems, combining food production with carbon sequestration while delivering co-benefits like improved soil health, biodiversity, and farmer resilience.
Sentinel Earth structures agroforestry carbon projects that balance agricultural productivity with verified carbon removal, supporting farmers in accessing carbon finance.
What is REDD+?
REDD+ is a United Nations framework that incentivizes developing countries and communities to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, conserve existing forests, enhance forest carbon stocks, and manage forests sustainably.
Sentinel Earth supports REDD+ project development and helps governments prepare for jurisdictional approaches, ensuring projects meet international standards while delivering benefits to forest-dependent communities.
What is Blue Carbon?
Blue carbon refers to carbon captured and stored by coastal and marine ecosystems including mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass beds, which sequester carbon at rates up to 10 times higher than terrestrial forests.
What is Carbon Sequestration?
Carbon sequestration is the long-term removal and storage of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into plants, soils, oceans, or geological formations, keeping carbon locked away for decades to millennia.
Sentinel Earth develops carbon sequestration projects across nature-based and engineered approaches, including regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and biochar.