Earthbanc is a Top Innovator winner of the 2022 Trillion Trees: Sahel and Great Green Wall Challenge, in partnership with the UNCCD, Uplink & 1t.org

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🎤 Earthbanc is a Top Innovator winner of the 1t.org 2022 Trillion Trees: Sahel and Great Green Wall Challenge, in partnership with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

🎤 Earthbanc’s CEO, Tom duncan interviewed by TIME | Why It's So Hard to Put a Price on Carbon

🎤 Earthbanc’s CEO, Tom Duncan speaks at Cop27 #ClimateHub with We Don't Have Time, and UNDP 

🎤 Earthbanc planted 10,000 trees in Germany in partnership with walk15 app, which currently has over 420,000 users

🎤 Presenting ‘Carbon - the exponential growth asset class’, Earthbanc's CEO, Tom Duncan and CFO / COO, Chau Tang-Duncan joined the CM-Equity AG Investment Summit

🎤 Alex Gibb with Triple Top Line Podcast interviews Tom Duncan CEO of Earthbanc | Can startups accelerate carbon removal?

🎤 Earthbanc is a winner of the 2022 Trillion Trees: Sahel and Great Green Wall Challenge, in partnership with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

“Africa’s Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative, led by the African Union Commission, is a bold vision to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land across the continent by 2030. In a region highly vulnerable to climate change, grappling with drought, resource scarcity, conflict and migration, at-scale landscape restoration is urgent to counter desertification and ensure livelihoods for a population largely dependent on agriculture.” - 1t.org

Earthbanc will bring its MRV, finance and forward contract technology to the Great Green Wall, that is restoring 156 million hectares of land, and is expected to generate 250 million tonnes of carbon. This is the world’s single largest land restoration and carbon removal project, that will ensure food, water and financial security for millions of farmers across the Sahel and Great Green Wall countries.

We are looking forward to creating valuable impact alongside the other incredible winners - Noël OBOGNON, Green energy Mali, Herou Alliance Mamadou, DIAKITE, Women's Action for Integrated Development, Adewumi Owolabi, Pierre-Gilles COMMEAT, Abdoulaye Souare

Find out more - at Uplink

🎤 Earthbanc’s CEO, Tom duncan interviewed by TIME | Why It's So Hard to Put a Price on Carbon

TIME interviewed Earthbanc's CEO, Tom Duncan to explore the challenges and opportunities with regards to the accuracy of claims in carbon markets, pricing and finance.

“Integrity matters because registry documents from project developers can be five years old, in which time forests can burn or be cut down. Also, most carbon registries currently rely on manual measurements locally, which can lead to errors, so carbon buyers may not know the most accurate and up-to-date status of a project”, says Tom Duncan, CEO of Earthbanc, the world’s first continuously audited carbon and finance platform. - TIME

This year, Earthbanc partnered with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCDD) to launch carbon pre-purchase agreements to finance carbon credits. 

Earthbanc works with carbon project developers, NGOs, and farmers to pre-sell a portion of their projects to help finance them in advance. We can wrap this purchase up in a digital Sustainable Land Bond developed in partnership with the UNCCD, and this can also be digitised into NFTs that hold project data. Our partners at Regen Network and Polygon support us with their blockchain technologies, and also provide lot of other support to collectively achieve our mission of planetary regeneration.

“This would not only pay farmers to plant and protect trees, but also support impacted communities through future carbon revenue streams. This is part of climate justice,” Duncan says. “As carbon prices increase, people most vulnerable to climate change deserve that compensation to enable them to adapt to a changing climate and ensure they have food and water security.”

During #COP27, as we look to accelerate climate action and finance net zero it is important that we include climate justice at the core of carbon markets, serving the most climate vulnerable farmers in the world with new financing mechanisms.

Check out the TIME’s full article to find out how Earthbanc, in partnership with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), backed by the European Space Agency (ESA), is working to address climate justice and finance land restoration - https://time.com/6213485/carbon-pricing-challenges-climate-change/

🎤 Earthbanc’s CEO, Tom Duncan speaks at Cop27 #ClimateHub with We Don't Have Time and UNDP

Explore the role of nature based solutions in financing and accelerating the transition to net zero.

Live from COP27 – public broadcasting hub at UN’s Climate Change Conference 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Earthbanc Together with the other partners, they explored crucial topics connected to the climate crisis, biodiversity, nature-based solutions and the green transformation of business and society. Watch the whole stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06fapRvkkoI

Video points- 5:36:09 Susan Gardner and Tom Duncan on ‘We Can Do It! Financing The Net Zero Transition.

🎤 Earthbanc planted 10,000 trees in Germany in partnership with walk15 app, which currently has over 420,000 users

As part of its efforts to protect the environment, restore biodiversity, and support local ecosystems, Earthbanc planted 10,000 trees at a selected location in western Germany. The plantation was conducted in partnership with the walk15 app which has a user base of over 420,000 and growing. A tree planting program has a multi-fold impact on the environment, which reduces the effects of climate change, sequesters carbon dioxide, provides bios benefits, reduces soil erosion and water quality impacts, and mitigates the harmful impacts of climate change.

The trees were selected to suit the local ecosystem to be resilient against insect and beetle attack that has decimated European forests. The saplings planted were carefully stored and transported before they were planted. We are looking to expand to further countries including the Baltics and Western Europe - look out for more tree planting and forward contracts on carbon!

Bo Kofod, the Director of Carbon Engineering & MRV at Earthbanc said: 

“We are planting saplings to ensure that the trees are healthy and they get a good start in their life. A good start means a successful forest and a successful forest means a greater impact to the environment and to climate mitigation. Planting saplings and digitally recording the information, also ensures that we are able to monitor the trees with satellites and train our machine learning models. We know exactly where they are, how old they are there, how healthy they are and the amount of carbon they are sequestering.”

🎤 Presenting ‘Carbon - the exponential growth asset class’,  Earthbanc's CEO, Tom Duncan and CFO / COO, Chau Tang-Duncan joined the CM-Equity AG Investment Summit

Earthbanc's CEO, Tom Duncan and CFO / COO, Chau Tang-Duncan, recently joined the CM-Equity AG Investment Summit. Hosted by the talented- Michael Kott, Jørgen Leschly Thorsted and the entire CM Equity team.

Tom presented ‘Carbon - the exponential growth asset class’, highlighting the underlying ESG and regulatory drivers that resulted in voluntary carbon market prices growing 400% in 2021, for some carbon assets, with nature-based solutions carbon growing nearly 300%.

Earthbanc enables corporations and asset managers to lock-in low long-term carbon prices through forward contracts. The future carbon credits that will be issued can be used to offset unavoidable emissions at a fixed price for 20 years. Asset managers with over $20 trillion AUM have committed to net zero - and Earthbanc enables offsetting of their portfolios, and the ability to sell the remainder of carbon credits, upon request, which enables asset managers to access the price growth of the underlying asset.

Are you interested to learn more about our carbon removal projects? Get in touch, we would love to discuss how we can help you reach your sustainability goals, while maximising your social and environmental impact - https://earthbanc.io/contact/

🎤 Alex Gibb with Triple Top Line Podcast interviews Tom Duncan CEO of Earthbanc | Can startups accelerate carbon removal?

Alex and Tom discuss Tom’s journey from measuring trees with a tape measure to developing cutting edge MRV technology using satellite imagery and AI to provide the most accurate carbon removal projects. Tom also shared how the carbon market can fund climate justice and his advice for starting an impactful ClimateTech start-up.

In this episode, they covered many topics, such as voluntary and regulated carbon markets, carbon offsetting, fundraising tips for climate tech startups, and more. 

“With satellite imagery, projects can be monitored continuously. This can ensure that climate claims are backed by real data, and are verifiable and credible, especially in the light of the anti-greenwashing clause in the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. We need a lot more climate tech companies out there solving real problems”  - Tom Duncan, CEO of Earthbanc

Listen to the whole podcast on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cHGOsFZKSRiD7GWYuUw1x?si=e25278a7e6994ed9&nd=1

Do you have any questions or comments? Please add them below, we’d love to hear your thoughts. 

Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it. 

Tom & the Earthbanc Team

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