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Green Generation Initiative: A forest you can eat
A shortage of seedlings helped Elizabeth Wathuti start GGI. Now the Kenyan nonprofit connects tree growing, school meals and community livelihoods - with a chicken coop making a surprisingly persuasive argument.
Terraformation Is Trying to Turn Forest Restoration Into an Investable Machine
The former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong found that planting trees was the easy part. Terraformation now packages seeds, software, training and patient capital into a bid to make native forests financeable - without flattening them into plantations.
Revalue
Revalue (Revalue Nature) is a London-based climate-tech company that develops high-integrity, nature-based carbon credits and builds the analytics platform behind them. Combining forest science, AI, remote sensing (satellite, drone and LiDAR), dynamic baselines and biodiversity monitoring, it partners with on-the-ground project operators and capital providers to design credits that avoid, remove and durably store CO2. Founded in 2022 and led by CEO Stuart Rowland, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2023 co-led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund and SJF Ventures.
Varaha
Varaha is an India-based climate-tech company that builds high-integrity carbon removal projects in the Global South. Working with roughly 170,000 smallholder farmers across about 1.7 million acres, it generates verified carbon credits through four pathways - regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, biochar, and enhanced rock weathering - and quantifies the results with a measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) platform powered by remote sensing, machine learning and field science. Its credits are bought by buyers like Google, Microsoft, Lufthansa and Swiss Re.