FreetownTheTreeTown Campaign (FTT), an initiative under Freetown City Council (FCC), on June10, 2025, successfully concluded a two-week Carbon project local Stakeholder Consultation aimed at engaging both community-level and high-level stakeholders on the city’s carbon credit initiative and its benefits.
The carbon project initiative seeks to monetize the environmental value of tree planting, particularly the carbon captured by trees, by selling verified carbon credits on international markets. The revenue generated will support the long-term care of trees, create green jobs, and help fund broader climate adaptation efforts across the city.
The consultation began at the Grassfields Lumley Community Centre and continued through Leicester, Allen Town, and Congo Town, culminating in a high-level engagement with MDAs and key private sector players at the Freetown City Council. This final session brought together representatives from government ministries, NGOs, the private sector, and development partners.
Throughout the sessions, community members were highly engaged, open to the concept, and actively participated in discussions. The meetings were successful in fostering transparency, building local ownership, and strengthening the foundation for the next phase of the project; which resulted in community participants providing over 80% Free, Prior and Informed Consent(FPIC), a major milestone for project validation and registration into the Verra Carbon Market registry
Present throughout the consultation were the Project Lead Amos Saat , ESG Manager Binta Jalloh, GIS Data Consultant Ibrahim Sieh Kamara, Finance Lead Ronita Shaw, Field Operations Officer Lahai Daramy, the FCC Climate Change Officer Esther Yatta Kallon, the Chairperson, Climate Change Committe Councilor Unisa Kamara and other Councilors both from the Western Area Rural District Council (WARD- C) and FCC, the Governace Laision Officer Kemoh Massaquoi, and staff from both the FTT project and FCC , all of whom played active roles in facilitating and guiding the discussions.
