Verra developed the Nature Framework to drive finance to critical nature conservation and restoration activities. The Nature Framework is an asset methodology nested under Verra’s Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) Program that will allow projects to quantify biodiversity outcomes and generate Nature Credits.
Credits are awarded to projects that generate biodiversity outcomes from avoided losses and restoration, compared to a baseline. Verra is also evaluating a third unit type for use under the Framework – Nature Stewardship Certificates – that would reward successful nature conservation and management outcomes in historically well managed areas maintaining relatively intact biodiversity.
