Quality of voluntary carbon credits issued from some of the industry’s largest players continues to undergo intense scrutiny from the media and credit ratings agencies. Demonstrating the integrity of environmental credits has never been more important to the future of the voluntary market, and the planet. As an abstracted…

ReforestACCIÓN translates literally to “reforest action”. It’s an appropriate name for an initiative planning to complete a reforestation operation to total 1 million trees, across 5 different states in Mexico this year. Isabel Gallo, a work zone manager, sends us a video message in front of a wall of green…

According to a new report by Reuters, deforestation has dropped in Brazil by 34% in the first half of 2023, an incredible feat and milestone. As environmental policy and funding ramps up, more trees can remain in the ground. …

In the two decades since the Kyoto Protocol laid the ground rules for carbon trading, demand for high-integrity, scalable, and transparent carbon markets has only increased. …

Standing in front of a freshly milled plot of land, Hosea Kandagor introduces himself and begins to speak about Marigat Permaculture Farm. Gesturing to the field around him, looking between the earth and the camera, Hosea shares about the highly degraded land he is on. …

By Michael Kelly, OFP Co-founder and Chief Protocol Architect Very often people don’t know which box to put Open Forest Protocol (OFP) into. Are we a dMRV tool for greasing the wheels of future carbon assets? Or are we an asset issuer and credit creator, increasing the supply of nature…

Imagine that every government, organization, investment firm, and individual had access to global forest data at their fingertips — that this data was upheld and supported in its truthfulness by a decentralized ledger and a worldwide network of third party verifiers that worked in tandem to verify every upload. …

“For the first time ever, a forest project will be validated by multiple different verifiers using crypto-graphic rules.”- OFP Co-Founder Michael Kelly To keep forests in the ground and incentivize forestation worldwide, accurate data is crucial for communities, governments, policymakers, businesses, and investors. …

Tree to Token From the deep tropics of Guatemala, far out to the plains of Kenya, the incentive to keep trees in the ground is not strong enough to override the financial ticker of the 21st century. …