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
- Funding
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
- Shared values
For more information, visit Terraformation.