All the trees we plant transform the lives of families in extreme poverty. Because they provide paid work for work for the people who grow, plant and look after the trees.  

But the question that came to my mind was how we could provide more to these Communities?  How might it be possible to fund the economic transformation out of extreme poverty for a whole Community?  And how to keep away the attractions of money from the loggers who want to cut down the trees?

Because that is what's now possible with funding from Carbon Credits.  As part of global agreements to stop global warming, businesses can now buy Carbon Credits to remove the remainder of their Carbon Footprint they are not able to cut.

With the real social and economic cost of CO2 pollution around $100 a Tonne of CO2, there is wide expectation that prices of Carbon Credits from nature-based solutions such as planting trees will increase significantly.

And because these Carbon Credits are from planting new trees that are actually removing CO2, they are recognised as high quality.

The aim is for a Community to benefit from multiple income streams that will enable economic transformation:

✅ Income from work to grow, plant and look after the trees and to carry out the measurements needed to create Carbon Credits

✅ Up-front investment to fund facilities such as a Community/Medical Centre and to fund specialists to guide the Community with economic Transformation, and training for young people

✅ Additional paid work as a result of the economic transformation

✅ % share of proceeds from the sale of Carbon Credits

One of the projects we are working on is to plant 16,000,000 trees in an Amazon rainforest that has been badly deforested by fires and loggers.  Subject to the future price of Carbon Credits, the project aims to produce $ millions to be shared between the Investor and the Community of 15,000 indigenous people.

Whether for business, Government or to offset air travel, planting trees is still by far the lowest-cost way to remove CO2 emissions. By incorporating Carbon Credits n0co2.org is creating solutions that deliver potentially high returns for Investors and life-transforming impact for local communities.

For more on the cost of removing CO2 emissions by planting trees relative to mechanical removal of CO2, see https://n0co2.org/article/169194

Or, what about undersea CO2 Storage or planting trees? See: https://n0co2.org/article/169193

n0co2.org is a project of the International NGO Saving Our planet www.savingourplanet.net

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