Manuel Estrada

Director, REDD+ and AFOLU
Verra

Manuel is responsible for the day-to-day management and evolution of Verra’s work in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) and Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU). Manuel collaborates with Verra’s Program Team to respond to stakeholder inquiries and concerns and supporting nesting of REDD+ projects, while also providing relevant policy and technical input to Verra’s Innovation Team to ensure new REDD+ and AFOLU related standards, methodologies and program innovations are technically sound and support and align with relevant international and domestic policy frameworks. Manuel also works with Verra’s Market Development team to support uptake and impact of Verra’s nature-based solutions and gather feedback from stakeholders to inform changes and improvements to relevant Verra standards.

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