The Matcha Initiative
Join usThe legacy sustainability has been focusing on carbon footprint for the past decades and scientists have been clear that our current planet crisis entails many more aspects, such as biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, social justice, plastic and air pollution... Carbon credits only cover avoidance or removal of GHG emissions, even if they claim to have side benefits on local communities and ecoystems.
An emerging market is that of "nature credits": it works on the same principle as carbon credits but you will be able to support a much broader variety of impactful projects, be it environmentally or socially.
Note that "nature credits" have multiple names ("biocredits", biodiversity credits"...) and are yet to be standardised in terms of definitions, prices, practices... As for carbon credits, you need to choose high quality projects and partners! You should plan to carry out independent due diligence on the quality of individual credits purchased throughout your procurement process.
23%
of the world’s mangrove forests are in Indonesia
(edenprojects)
40%
of Indonesian mangrove forests have been lost to deforestation over the past 50 years
(edenprojects)
Handprint is the opposite of footprint. We empower businesses to create value while they take planet action, track science-based impact and engage their stakeholders with compelling content.
We carefully curate impact organisations to close the loop of trust, with transparency on where your money goes, a scientific reporting methodology, real content from the ground, etc.
Grow your handprint, grow with the planet.
Nika.eco helps companies who are offsetting emissions through carbon credits to understand the quality of such credits and where to get the best-quality carbon credits with Nika.eco's proprietary remote sensing technology. Nika.eco also has its own portfolio of nature-based carbon projects of high quality.
South Pole has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006, developing and implementing comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for Fortune 500 companies, governments and organizations around the world.
South Pole is more than a consultancy, its team of 1,200+ experts have developed projects, as well as designed innovative tools across finance, climate neutral APIs, and carbon offset solutions to help clients reach their carbon mitigation and Net Zero goals.
To date South Pole has worked with over 1,000 clients, and will soon have developed 800 offset projects across 30 offices globally.
Our solutions have created tens of thousands of jobs in developing countries, hundreds of millions of dollars for business, improved brand value and better living and working conditions for countless people in vulnerable communities around the world.
Zuno is a pioneer in decarbonisation, carbon & ESG management. Our tech platform helps leading organizations measure, reduce and report their carbon emissions and ESG performance. Powering you towards your sustainability goals, one step at a time.
We are a registered non-profit organization focusing on prevention, collection, recycling and education to prevent ocean waste/plastics. We offer a variety of Ocean Cleanup CSR activities, school and community waste bank programs, as well as set up and manage ocean plastic solutions for our own non-profit, but also as an outsource contractor for other organizations.
Livelihoods Venture is a social business that originates, designs and monitors large scale projects of natural ecosystem restoration, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and rural energy, aiming to create sustainable ecological and social value. It operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe with a team of 50 agronomists, foresters, rural development practitioners, carbon, M&E and finance experts from 12 nationalities, who manage the livelihoods portfolio of projects through a large network of NGOs, suppliers, and public agencies.
A specifity of Livelihoods is its cooperative model: investors in the Livelihoods funds are fully associated with the investment decision and fund governance. Livelihoods' strategic pillars are twofold:
Within the value chain, Livelihoods partners with large corporations that source raw material from agriculture or forestry, to help them transform their supply chain and meet their social and ecological commitments. Livelihoods has also developed a range of large scale projects with smallholder farmers in cocoa, coconut, vanilla, shea, coffee, dairy, palm, etc., to address both poverty and sustainability issues. In mature economies, Livelihoods mobilizes coalitions of actors along the value chain from farmers to cooperatives, processors and brands to foster regenerative agriculture practices that restore soils and biodiversity while storing carbon.
Beyond the value chain, Livelihoods Carbon Funds (LCF) work with companies committed to becoming net zero. In addition to their efforts to curb carbon emissions in their operations, product design, etc., these companies invest in Livelihoods projects which provide them with high quality carbon credits.
With nine global offices and 16 years of expertise, ACT has empowered thousands of companies to decarbonize with their comprehensive sustainability solutions, tailored to their clients’ unique needs. ACT has more than 200 products and cutting-edge digital solutions that focus on enabling organisations to meet complex environmental regulations and achieve their climate goals, no matter how ambitious.
