Reforestation and afforestation projects, part of a category of projects known as ARR (Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation), restore degraded land back to forest or create forest infrastructure where none existed before. Credits from these projects are considered carbon removal credits because planting trees draws carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They differ from other nature-based forest carbon projects that focus on avoidance, such as conservation projects, which aim to protect existing forests from deforestation, or improved forest management projects, which employ advanced techniques to improve the carbon storage potential of an existing working forest.

While Pachama's partner portal hopes to support the origination of future conservation projects, we currently focus primarily on reforestation carbon projects.

Whether you have land and are considering starting your own forest carbon project or an established project developer tackling your next effort, you can leverage Pachama's technology and finance matching to jump-start your next project.

Currently, Pachama's reforestation partner portal is for anyone looking to start a native reforestation carbon project in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, or Argentina. We plan to expand project types and regions in the future.

There are many steps involved in developing a reforestation project, and it's important to note that it can take 5+ years for projects to generate credits and revenue, as trees take time to grow and measurably sequester carbon dioxide. Pachama makes it easy to navigate these steps and find financing to get started. At a high level, these steps include:

1. Assessing your project opportunity: The first step requires evaluating your project site's suitability, environmental conditions, and community engagement compatibility. Our process ensures the project is financially feasible and will generate enough credits to justify implementation costs.
2. Planning your project: This step includes designing your plan for reforestation activities, including the types of trees to be planted, planting density, maintenance practices, as well as local community engagement.
3. Implementing your project: Finally, it's time to plant trees and execute the reforestation activities according to your plan.
4. Monitoring your project: Once your project is implemented, you'll need to track the project's progress and carbon sequestration over time. You'll need to monitor your project's health over its on-average 30-year lifetime.
5. Verifying and reporting your project: You'll need to confirm the carbon benefits of your project through third-party verification and report the results to a registry so that you can issue credits.

Yes! Getting started with Pachama is free for project partners and requires no commitment. Pachama enables partners to apply to receive up-front capital in order to cover the costs of project implementation.

Pachama is a trusted partner of leading corporates and investors taking climate action through investments in forests. Through the reforestation portal, project developers can showcase their projects to Pachama's network of potential investors and customers.

Pachama brings transaction expertise to support contract structures that benefit buyers and sellers. Pachama supports an up-front investment model, where either corporate off-takers make an upfront investment in exchange for 100% of carbon credits generated from a project or a project is backed by investment until credits can be generated and sold.

At Pachama, we're convinced that forests are the world's most scalable carbon removal technology and will play a decisive role in helping prevent the worst effects of climate change. In doing so, forests will create sustainable jobs, protect biodiversity and strengthen ecosystem services.

To achieve our goal of driving the conservation and reforestation of forests, Pachama works with values-aligned and mission-driven project developers to bring the highest-quality forest carbon projects to market.

Pachama uniquely offers both financing and technology to project developers in order to accelerate our shared mission.

Learn more about Pachama's approach to quality reforestation projects here.

Pachama currently supports carbon project development under the upcoming new Verra Carbon Standard ARR methodology (for afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation project activities with plans to expand in the future.