#carbon-removal

🇦🇷 Argentina · Fundación Banco de Bosques

A lean Argentine foundation lets anyone "buy" a square meter of native forest online, and used the crowd-funded model to help create a 128,000-hectare national park.

🇧🇹 Bhutan · Bhutan for Life (WWF & Royal Government of Bhutan)

A one-of-a-kind conservation fund guarantees permanent financing for Bhutan's entire national park system, the largest share of protected land in Asia.

🇷🇺 Russia · Pleistocene Park

Snow insulates the ground like a duvet, so the permafrost beneath never gets properly cold. Large animals trample it flat — which is the entire theory behind this park.

🇮🇪 Ireland · Irish Peatland Conservation Council

Ireland cut and burned its bogs for centuries; since 1982 this small charity has been quietly buying the survivors and handing them back to sphagnum.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Zhanatas Wind Power Plant LLP

Forty turbines on the Zhambyl steppe form Central Asia's largest wind farm, cutting hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 a year in a coal-dependent grid.

🇨🇱 Chile · CECPAN

On an island where wells run dry each summer, the spongy pompón moss bogs are the water supply — so Chiloé's naturalists got them written into law as nature sanctuaries.

🇵🇪 Peru · Nature and Culture International

Harvesters used to cut down a whole aguaje palm to reach one bunch of fruit; in Maijuna territory they now climb it, and the peat swamp underneath stays wet.

🇮🇸 Iceland · Climeworks

Swiss company sucking CO2 straight out of the air and turning it to stone beneath Iceland.

🇫🇮 Finland · Carbo Culture

Carbo Culture turns waste wood and agricultural biomass into stable biochar using its patented Carbolysis process, locking carbon away for over a thousand years.

🇳🇦 Namibia · Kelp Blue

Kelp Blue is cultivating vast offshore giant-kelp forests off Namibia's coast to lock carbon away in the deep ocean while rebuilding marine biodiversity.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · World Vision Ethiopia

Farmers on Ethiopia's Mount Damota regrew a forest from old tree stumps and turned the carbon credits into grain mills, warehouses and floodproofing for their villages.

🇮🇳 India · Ka Synjuk Ki Hima Arliang Wah Umiam Mawphlang Welfare Society

India's first REDD+ project pays indigenous Khasi communities to protect and restore Meghalaya's sacred cloud forests.

🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo · Wildlife Conservation Society

Twenty thousand people live inside this flooded forest in the Republic of Congo, and the reserve they co-manage sits on more peat than any other protected area in Central Africa.

🌍 Global · Project Drawdown

The world's leading resource mapping the science-based solutions that can actually reverse global warming.

🇮🇩 Indonesia · PT Rimba Makmur Utama (Katingan Mentaya Project)

The Katingan Mentaya Project protects and rewets one of the world's largest tracts of tropical peat swamp forest in Borneo, keeping centuries of stored carbon out of the atmosphere.

🌍 Global · Sustainable Surf (SeaTrees)

SeaTrees, the flagship program of nonprofit Sustainable Surf, funds local partners around the world to plant and protect mangroves, kelp and seagrass meadows that store carbon far faster than land forests.

🇦🇺 Australia · Carbon Neutral

The Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor is replanting a 200-kilometre strip of native mallee bush across Western Australia's salt-degraded wheatbelt to lower salinity and rebuild eroded farmland.

🇩🇪 Germany · Michael Succow Foundation

Drained peat soils are one of Europe's largest hidden carbon leaks, and this Greifswald foundation floods them back while teaching farmers to grow crops in the wet.

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Emirates Nature-WWF

The UAE's first WWF affiliate is replanting the Northern Emirates' coastline with mangroves that store four times more carbon than tropical forest.

🌍 Global · Amazon Conservation Association

A US-based nonprofit's satellite program tracks Amazon deforestation and illegal mining in near-real time, feeding evidence to enforcement agencies.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Saudi Green Initiative

A national government program is rehabilitating degraded desert land and planting trees at massive scale as part of Saudi Arabia's push to fight desertification and cut emissions.

🇫🇮 Finland · Snowchange Cooperative

A Finnish cooperative buys up ruined peat-mining land and lets local and Sámi communities rewild it back into carbon-storing wetlands.

🇰🇷 South Korea · Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC)

South Korea's leading climate advocacy group, using research, litigation, and campaigning to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonize Asia's heavy industry.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · UNDO

UNDO spreads crushed volcanic basalt across farmland so rainfall reactions pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and lock it into stable carbonate minerals for millennia.

🇳🇴 Norway · WWF-Norway

Norway voted to open an area of Arctic seabed larger than Britain to mining; one lawsuit and two budget negotiations later, no licence will be issued before 2029.

🇿🇲 Zambia · Emerging Cooking Solutions

Zambian households rent internet-connected stoves and buy waste-wood pellets instead of charcoal, cutting cooking costs and pressure on the country's shrinking woodlands.

🌍 Global · TIST

Farmer-led small-group network across East Africa and India that plants trees for carbon income and land restoration.

🇨🇦 Canada · Mushkegowuk Council

The Omushkego Cree call the James Bay peatlands the Breathing Lands, and they are pushing to protect a carbon store that dwarfs most of the world's forests before mining reaches it.

🇺🇸 United States · Charm Industrial

Charm Industrial converts leftover crop and forestry residue into bio-oil that gets injected deep underground, locking carbon away for thousands of years.

🇮🇸 Iceland · Carbfix

An Icelandic carbon capture technology dissolves CO2 in water and injects it into basalt rock, where it turns to stone within about two years.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · Urgenda Foundation

A Dutch foundation sued its own government over weak climate targets and won a landmark court order to cut emissions faster.

🇦🇺 Australia · ALFA (NT) Limited

Aboriginal-owned ALFA (NT) Limited pays Traditional Owners to burn Arnhem Land the old way, turning ancient fire knowledge into carbon credits that fund rangers and community programs.

🇹🇱 Timor-Leste · WithOneSeed

Subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste's Baguia district are replanting deforested hillsides and getting paid in carbon income for every tree they nurture.

🇦🇹 Austria · Verein Ökoregion Kaindorf

A grassroots Styrian association built one of Europe's first voluntary carbon-certificate markets that pays farmers directly for every tonne of CO2 they lock back into their soil.