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Why reforestation

Approximately 100,000 acres of forest is cut down every single day around the world. This has devastating effects on global warming and local wildlife.

CarbonMe plant trees that bring participants important economic and social benefits. Through our program, whole communities are working together to save the world's most degraded lands. The many benefits these fast-growing trees bring allow the participating families to save their homes and way of life.

Our projects, as well as sequester vast quantities of CO2 out of the Global Atmosphere, also convert it into natural resources for much needed local communities. A proven fact shown by research from NASA is that trees planted in developing countries of the tropics generally sequester up to three times as much CO2 as those elsewhere.

They also bring many other benefits when planted in appropriate locations such as:

  • improving living standards
  • rebuilding worn soils
  • reducing erosion
  • replenishing groundwater aquifers
  • creating microclimate conditions
  • encouraging the return of indigenous species
  • improving soil quality for agriculture and bio-diversity
CarbonMe donates trees to local families to help them generate a sustainable income from food, medicines and shelter.

The benefits from these trees spread far beyond these remote villages, to our own homes, schools and communities as well. That's because these trees also remove from the global atmosphere great quantities of carbon dioxide, the major "greenhouse gas" (GHG) responsible for global climate change. This program takes this carbon and turns it into things people need such as food, clothing, shelter, medicines and organic fertilizer - in doing so returning the carbon to the soil.

Reforestation is also the most cost-effective means of offsetting carbon emissions. Each of the fast-growing trees takes about 25kg of CO2 from the atmosphere each year for at least 40 years – that equates to the absorption of 1 ton of CO2 over its lifetime!

How it works

Through photosynthesis, trees take CO2 out of the air by incorporating it into biomass and release oxygen into the atmosphere. This concept of CO2 sequestation has become more widely known because the Kyoto Protocol allows the use of carbon dioxide sinks (reforestation) as a form of Carbon Offseting .
Trees play a unique role in the global carbon cycle. They are the largest land-based natural mechanism for removing CO2 from the air. (CO2 is also removed by the oceans and ocean organisms.)
Trees are able to store a large amount of CO2 in their structures. An acre of forest will absorb about 10 times the CO2 amount absorbed by an acre of crop land or grassland

Projects

In our program at CarbonMe, we encourage communities to plant multipurpose fast growing (MPFG) trees that not only produce useful products within a short time, but also encourage the growth of field crops, vegetables, and other vegetation around them.
CarbonMe carries out strict due diligence of all the projects it supports. As well as making sure our projects meet or will meet the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA); Environmental Resources Trust (ERT); or United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)