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Apply Now for Seed to Carbon Forest Accelerator Program

Deadline: 31-Jul-23

Applicants are now encouraged to apply for the Seed to Carbon Forest Accelerator Program to provide early-stage forestry teams with project financing, as well as two years of training and technical support to scale their operations.

As the world’s first biodiversity-focused, carbon-funded forest accelerator, they aim to help forest teams achieve responsible restoration at scale.

Expert Support for Local Forestry Teams
  • 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
      • See some of the seed bank models
    • Tracking
      • Monitoring and tracking from seed to field for high project transparency
      • Guided support with Terraware software
    • 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 (30+ years) and community engagement
  • Development of complementary sustainable business models for multiple revenue streams (carbon credits, agroforestry, silvopasture, NTFP)
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 300 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.

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