Archive · 15 Aug 2026
Meghalaya launches bamboo carbon project to restore land, boost incomes
The government of a place called Meghalaya, in India, has started a new nature project.
It is about planting and caring for bamboo, a plant that grows very fast.
When trees and plants grow, they take a gas called carbon dioxide out of the air.
That helps slow down climate change, which is good for the planet.
The project wants to bring back forests on land that has been damaged.
The people who help look after the bamboo will get special rewards called 'carbon credits'.
Those credits can be sold to others who want to protect the environment.
So farmers and village communities can earn extra money.
This will happen in the Khasi and Garo hills, where bamboo has always been important to local life.
It is a plan to help both nature and the people who live there.
The Meghalaya government launched the Bamboo Centric Afforestation (Verra-ARR) Carbon Project to restore degraded land.
The project is expected to generate independently verifiable carbon credits, with a portion of the economic benefits proposed to flow to farmers and communities.
It targets degraded community and privately owned lands across the Khasi and Garo Hills.
Compliance Kart Private Limited is implementing the project in collaboration with the Meghalaya Basin Management Authority, with the Meghalaya Basin Development Authority as technical co-proponent.
Restoration will combine enrichment planting and assisted natural regeneration using indigenous bamboo species such as Dendrocalamus hamiltonii and Bambusa tulda.
- Who
- The Meghalaya government, project implementer Compliance Kart Private Limited, the Meghalaya Basin Management Authority, the Meghalaya Basin Development Authority, and local communities managing the land; MLA and Advisor Ampareen Lyngdoh and Umroi MLA Damanbait Lamare attended the plantation drive.
- What
- Launched the Bamboo Centric Afforestation (Verra-ARR) Carbon Project, a bamboo-focused afforestation initiative to restore degraded land, enhance carbon sequestration and generate verifiable carbon credits.
- When
- Officials announced the ground-level rollout on a Friday following a plantation drive; the exact date is not stated in the article.
- Where
- Degraded community and privately owned lands across the Khasi and Garo Hills in Meghalaya, with the launch reported from Shillong.
- Why
- To revive degraded mixed native-bamboo forests, strengthen their capacity to absorb and store carbon over the long term, and create an additional income source for rural communities through the carbon economy.
- Initiative
- Bamboo Centric Afforestation (Verra-ARR) Carbon Project
- Location
- Khasi and Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
- Implementer
- Compliance Kart Private Limited, with the Meghalaya Basin Management Authority (MBMA); Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA) as technical co-proponent
- Goal
- Restore degraded land and generate independently verifiable carbon credits
- Methods
- Enrichment planting and assisted natural regeneration
- Key bamboo species
- Dendrocalamus hamiltonii, Bambusa pallida, Bambusa tulda, Bambusa jaintiana, Bambusa balcooa, Melocanna baccifera
- Beneficiaries
- Farmers and communities managing the land
- Officials at launch
- Ampareen Lyngdoh and Damanbait Lamare