Carbon credits
Ton-year carbon credits - sold directly from a smallfarmer in the Colombian Amazon. We guarantee certification — pre-certified credits ton/yr credits are retired immediately upon certification.
What we have to sell
Our current stock of 50k credits is from a 18,500 ha collective of >300 indigenous smallfarmers and 2 indigenous groups in the Tropical Andean biodiversity hotspot. Observations of indicators species are tracked in iNaturalist for >1 year and all farmers have a 30-year conservation contract for shared revenue from sales.
We have >10 indigenous groups in 9 countries in our pipeline in either biodiversity hotspots or IUCN-threatened ecosystems and anticipate providing 178M credits to the global conservation market in the next 5 years.
We anticipate certification of our biodiversity credits in February 2023 and are currently accepting letters of intent or presales. We guarantee certification. Pre-certified ton-year credits are retired immediately on certification.
Frequently asked questions
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Cercarbono certifies, Ecoregistry tracks, Aenor is our verifier (VVB), and Space Intelligence does our MRV. We use a UN-REDD+ grouped methodology scaling protected/restored land 20% MoM.
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We use the Ecological Benefits Framework to quantify six co-benefits, soil, air, water, biodiversity, carbon and equity for all our products — with MRV and certification.
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We’re glad you asked because this is important to us too. The answer is 20-80% depending on the amount of land enrolled and monthly advance micropayments. For Savimbo’s portion, ⅔ of our founders are local indigenous leaders, 7% of our company is owned by successful growers, and 7% is owned by staff of which >50% is local experts.
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