Seed to Carbon Forest Accelerator Program

Objectives

The global teams of science and forestry experts are integrated into local communities, supporting foresters through their most critical challenges.

• Funding
  • Fund planting costs to get projects off the ground
  • Coordinate forward carbon sales to deliver regular revenue to forestry teams and local communities
  • Develop sustainable business models to eliminate the need for fundraising and grant writing
• Training
  • Ongoing opportunities to learn best practices from science, forestry, carbon, finance, legal, community impact, and marketing experts
• Seeds
  • Seed banking solutions to promote high native species diversity
• Tracking
  • Monitoring and tracking from seed to field for high project transparency
• Expert Support
  • Global team of foresters, scientists, technologists, experienced carbon market strategists, and creative communicators ready to help your project succeed
• High-Quality Projects with Flexibility
  • Focus on native, biodiverse restoration that creates community benefits
  • Opportunity to incorporate agroforestry and sustainable timber harvest
• Carbon Market Verification
  • Execute feasibility studies and Project Design Document (PDD)
  • Facilitate project verification with top-tier third-party verifiers
  • Connect projects to carbon credit buyers.

Benefits for Forestry Teams

• Software solutions and training for monitoring progress and identifying bottlenecks
• A free feasibility study to assess your project’s carbon potential ($20,000 USD value)
• Networking with other forestry teams
• Pilot capital and additional funding opportunities
• Infrastructure and technology, like seed banks and nurseries
• Project design document (PDD)
• Design for long-term impact (40+ years) and community engagement
• Development of complementary sustainable business models for multiple revenue streams (carbon credits, agroforestry, silvopasture, NTFP).

Eligibility Criteria

• The Accelerator is open to forest restoration teams around the globe. You might be a great fit if you have:
  • Shared values
    • Share the values of biodiversity and native ecosystem restoration
  • Land access
    • Have long-term access and rights to reforest at least 1,500 hectares of land
  • Tropical or subtropical location
    • The forestry accelerator is designed to support organizations focused on tropical or subtropical reforestation projects and communities only
  • An experienced team
    • Already have a team with forest restoration experience
  • Interest in carbon markets
    • Are interested in learning more about carbon market financing
  • Long-term planning
    • Are focused on restoring forests that last for generations and benefit the environment and communities around those forests
  • Sustainable business models
    • Have experience with complementary sustainable business models like agroforestry and non-timber forest products.

For more information, visit Terraformation.