CODE is a partner in the Indigenous Key Farmer-Based Network of Southeast Asia, and has, alongside its sister organizations TEW (Women’s Rights-Based Organisational and Institutional Development), CIRD (Indigenous Community Rights-Based Development), CHESH (Land Use Master Planning for Community-Based Ecological Economic Practices), and SPERI (Social and Cultural Capital, Customary Law-Based Foundation Development) been working to enrich the Ecological Value of Highland Watershed Forests since 1995. Today CODE see the principal challenge facing Highland Watershed Forests and the communities living within them as the ecological, social and cultural damage being caused to by the unconstrained encroachment of industrial agriculture into these ecologically and culturally sensitive areas.

Understanding the history of CODE and its partners, CODE is, in the coming decades, re-positioning itself to bridge community entrepreneur leadership, commercial enterprises, and government policy makers in a shared moral and ethical approach in Highland Watershed Forest regions. One that respects the cultural, economic and ecological concerns of all parties.

CODE sees the newly established trade in Carbon Credits offers a prime opportunity for achieving this goal. It is therefore offering to act as an Independent Arbitrator in this trade to ensure that rural community entrepreneurs (community forest owners), and business enterprises (carbon emitters) share in a ‘no-harming’ approach to the forest trees, soil, and water that are the major source of the carbon sequestration for the Carbon Credit Market. CODE offers to supervise, on behalf of the government, the fair trade in carbon credits, the fair payment of taxation on incomes earned, and to facilitate media engagement to advance the national understanding of the whole Carbon, Carbon Credit and Carbon Credit Supply Chain complex.

CODE’s values and mission is to strengthen the interspace between 5 stakeholders (community forest owners, carbon emitters, independent arbitrator, government, and media) in the national Carbon Credit Supply Chain in highland, coastal, and delta regions to ensure the ‘fair sharing’ of the moral and ethical principles in the ecological circular economy of today and tomorrow.