Mitigating climate change for a cleaner tomorrow
Habitat Carbon is committed to creating high-integrity carbon projects that effectively mitigate climate change while delivering significant advantages for local communities, indigenous peoples, biodiversity, and natural resource management.
Our flagship initiative is the Pahang Peatland Restoration Project. The aim is to restore and conserve approximately 96,569 hectares of peatland and alluvial marshland in Pahang state, which is the largest continuous peat and wetland ecosystem in Peninsular Malaysia. The project spans across 11 timber production forest reserves. 77,478 hectares of this is designed as the initial project area.
The objectives of PPRP include combating climate change, providing sustainable livelihoods, and protecting globally significant ecosystems and species. Without PPRP, extensive deforestation and peatland degradation would continue, resulting in significant biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and GHG emissions. Land conversion pressures are also intensifying, with plans for oil palm plantations, an agroecology park, and a dairy farm.
PPRP is expected to avoid ~132.5 million tons of CO2e over 59 years by halting degradation from logging, agriculture, and canal construction. Reforestation of degraded and drained areas will remove ~11.3 million tons of CO2. Total reduction and removal averages 2.4 million tons annually.
As of April 2025, our Pahang Peatland Restoration Project (PPRP) carbon project has now been officially listed on the Verra registry as a verified carbon project. This marks a significant milestone and reinforces our commitment to environmental sustainability and innovation.