carbon credits

What the carbon offset market offers is a financial instrument that lets the wealthy world continue as it is, while those who contributed least to the climate crisis pay for it in land, in livelihood, and in the quiet loss of places their communities have lived in for as long as anyone can remember.

Tech giant Apple is among a pool of global investors pouring millions into Queensland's macadamia nut industry, looking to secure carbon-saving "natural capital assets".

The project, which spans up to 13,600 hectares of grassland in the Vichada region of Colombia’s eastern plains within the Orinoquía, will create a planted forest the size of Paris.

Component Earth, a new carbon finance company announced the close of an over $50 million facility from global commodities leader Trafigura that will be used to scale the Lake Victoria Watershed Agroforestry Carbon Project in Kenya from its initial 15,000 hectares to 35,000 hectares, and potentially beyond.

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group announced that it has raised $370 million in commitments for its newest core Latin America strategy, focused on large-scale, sustainably managed, core timberland assets across Chile, Uruguay and Brazil that generate carbon credits.

L’initiative de Marché du carbone communautaire (15 millions d'hectares) propose une démarche « sans prédation foncière » qui combine agriculture de rente et agriculture vivrière pour séquester du carbone dans les forêts du Bassin du Congo

Financial institutions and private investors from the global North are channelling hundreds of millions of dollars into the expansion of industrial tree plantations across Africa.

« Le modèle qui s’installe par défaut est le modèle anglo‑saxon : l’agriculteur renonce à ses droits sur le carbone de son sol en échange d’un paiement unique, généralement faible, et perd tout pouvoir de décision sur ses propres terres pendant des décennies », explique Manuel Linares du Coordinateur des organisations d’agriculteurs et d’éleveurs

«El modelo que se está instalando por defecto es el anglosajón: el agricultor cede derechos sobre el carbono de su suelo a cambio de un pago único, normalmente bajo, y pierde capacidad de decisión sobre su propia tierra durante décadas,» explica Manuel Linares de la Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos

The Company has mapped an initial area of 5,000 ha and the tree planting project could be expanded to at least 25,000 ha in total size.

The 636-hectare portfolio, to be named Bunya Orchards, includes 341 hectares of established, high density macadamia orchards and 50 hectares of grazing land earmarked for greenfield macadamia development.

As part of the restoration, the UK company has planted more than 1.8 million trees in Sierra Leone since 2023, and the long-term goal is to plant over 10 million trees across 15,000 hectares of degraded community land.