Global Initatives

There are biological carbon sequestration programs all over the globe. These are massive initiatives working at a large scale. Here’s a few we’re following.

The 1 Trillion Trees Initiative
Conserving, restoring and growing a trillion trees by 2030 for people, biodiversity and planet.

United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
From 2021 - 2030 a UN Resolution and broad-based global movement to ramp up restoration and put the world on track for a sustainable future.

India Planted 50 Million Trees in 24 hours
Part of a $6 billion commitment to reforest India, the country planted nearly 50 million trees in under 24 hours. Suddenly, India's goal of reducing pollution and reforesting 12% of the country doesn't look nearly as far-fetched.

One Tree Planted
This has been a resource for us while prototyping. For $1/tree can plant trees in a variety of global projects. A quick way to plant some trees today!

EFM & Microsoft Announce Investment
Microsoft is trying to get Carbon Negative as a company by 2030, and remove all their historical carbon by 2050. One of the strategies is major investments in carbon sequestration forestry projects like EFM supports, giving them access to carbon offest credits.

NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-3)
Detecting Atmospheric Carbon levels from space. Useful for determining concentrations of CO2, for example if CO2 concentrations are higher near urban areas.

The Lego-like way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere
Graphyte, a new company incubated by Bill Gates’s investment group Breakthrough Energy Ventures, announced that it has created a method for turning bits of wood chips and rice hulls into low-cost, dehydrated chunks of plant matter. Those blocks of carbon-laden plant matter — which look a bit like shoe-box sized Lego blocks — can then be buried deep underground for hundreds of years.