ForestCarb
ForestCarb creates carbon credits from the additional biomass growth that occurs when forest owners let their trees grow longer instead of clear-cutting. The company pays forest owners a monthly cash flow based on this extra growth, while selling the resulting carbon credits to large companies and the finance market. The ForestCarb method shifts from single-shift farming (deforestation) to three-shift farming where every third tree is harvested, promoting continuous thinning and mixed-age forests.
- Clean Technology
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, primarily carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, strengthen the greenhouse effect and contribute to climate change. Conventional forestry practices with clear-cutting release significant CO₂ emissions, and it takes at least 25 years for CO₂ levels to recover after deforestation.
Solution
ForestCarb creates carbon credits from the additional biomass growth that occurs when forest owners let their trees grow longer instead of clear-cutting. The company pays forest owners a monthly cash flow based on this extra growth, while selling the resulting carbon credits to large companies and the finance market. The ForestCarb method shifts from single-shift farming (deforestation) to three-shift farming where every third tree is harvested, promoting continuous thinning and mixed-age forests that maximize CO₂ sequestration across the entire ecosystem. This approach makes forests more climate-friendly, better for diversity, and more profitable for landowners simultaneously.
Target Audience
Primary customers are forest owners in Scandinavia seeking additional income from their land, along with large companies and finance market participants that need to offset their direct CO₂ emissions with certified carbon credits.
Features
- Converts forest growth into verified carbon credits, with one ton of stored CO₂ equal to one carbon credit
- Provides forest owners with monthly payments instead of waiting 25 years between harvests
- Continuous thinning method creates mixed-age forests that bind maximum CO₂ through different tree age classes
- Carbon credits sold to companies with over 500 employees and to the finance market
- Focuses on biomass growth across the entire forest ecosystem, not just individual trees
- Reduces CO₂ emissions by postponing tree felling and avoiding deforestation-related carbon release