The British company SEFE Marketing & Trading Ltd. and Kazakhstan’s SAFC LLP signed an agreement to plant 3.3 million trees across 1,500 hectares in the Almaty region to produce carbon credits
Through its company, Acelen Renewables, the UAE's Mubadala Capital is building a biofuel refinery in the Brazilian state of Bahia which it will supply with 80 million macaúba trees planted on 200,000 hectares of degraded land. The macaúba is a plant native to Brazil with a high energy yield, meaning that the renewable diesel the project produces is projected to emit up to 80 percent less CO2 than fossil diesel. In addition, planting 200,000 hectares of trees would capture 60 million tons of CO2 over 20 years.
Oil trader Trafigura and Singapore's Temasek will produce carbon credits by planting 24 million trees in Colombia's in Orinoco River Basin on 30,000 hectares of land that has been degraded by cattle grazing.
One of Arbonics' clients in Lithuania is INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II which has already planted around 200 hectares of mixed forest and 750,000 trees in total to earn carbon credits.
The company Sequoia has obtained a lease over 60,000 hectares for a eucalyptus monoculture project in the Haut-Ogooué province, Gabon. but statements from communities and a survey of more than 1,400 people from the impacted region reveal a total rejection of this plantation project.
In Congo-Brazzaville, tree planting projects intended for carbon markets have proliferated over the past four years, with large-scale monocultures initiated by oil companies under the seductive term of carbon neutrality and promises of job creation for communities.
The company intends to cultivate bamboo in phases, beginning with 8,500 hectares, and is applying for carbon credits with Gold Standard.
Communal lands the combined size of Portugal have been taken over by corporate interests for carbon offsetting schemes across the Global South, according to a new report that warns of a “new form of land grabbing.”
The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating drought conditions.
The investment with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) - one of the world's largest timberland investment management organizations - focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.
Google will buy 50,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits by 2030 from Mombak, which purchases degraded land from farmers and ranchers or partners with them to replant native species in the Amazon rainforest
Offset8 and iRise’s Climate and Community Transformation Program intends to restore 6,000 hectares of degraded land in Malawi by planting 6 million trees.
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