Keneco develops and manages nature-based carbon projects, including afforestation, reforestation, and REDD+ initiatives. Their integrated platform and end-to-end services streamline project execution, ensuring precision, speed, and scale while delivering measurable climate, biodiversity, and community benefits.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Developing and managing nature-based carbon projects requires significant expertise in ecological science, community engagement, and carbon market methodologies. This complexity, coupled with the need for rigorous measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), presents a barrier to scaling impactful climate solutions.
Solution
Keneco provides an integrated platform and end-to-end services for the development, financing, and management of nature-based carbon projects. The company focuses on afforestation, reforestation, revegetation (ARR), and avoided deforestation and degradation (REDD+) initiatives, as well as blue carbon projects. By combining advanced ecological modeling, remote sensing, and digital platforms with on-the-ground partnerships, Keneco ensures precision, speed, and scale in project execution. This approach delivers measurable climate, biodiversity, and community benefits, supported by robust MRV processes and community-centric implementation.
Target Audience
Keneco serves corporates and investors seeking to invest in high-integrity carbon projects, as well as implementation partners and land stewards looking to develop and manage these projects.
Features
- Integrated technology platform for project assessment, execution, monitoring, and scaling.
- Pre-feasibility tool utilizing land analytics for additionality, permanence, and leakage assessment, alongside climate, community, and biodiversity impact estimation.
- Field application for land surveys, baselining, community onboarding, planting, and monitoring, including biomass plot data collection.
- Operations dashboard for partner due diligence, project lifecycle tracking, on-ground insights, and verification readiness.
- End-to-end carbon asset development with a focus on rigorous Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) protocols.
- Science-led project design informed by local ecological conditions and community needs.
- Community-centric execution models that empower local stakeholders and ensure equitable benefit sharing.
- Support for diverse nature-based mitigation pathways including ARR and REDD+.