Creating a data driven carbon sequestration platform
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The accelerating rise in global temperatures, primarily due to greenhouse gas emissions like CO₂, poses a critical threat to our planet. Keeping the temperature increase within 1.5°C requires a substantial reduction in emissions and extensive efforts in CO₂ removal (negative emissions).
Nature-based solutions, particularly forestry, are central to this challenge as they offer a low-energy, low-maintenance approach with vital co-benefits such as air and water purification, biodiversity conservation, and community enhancement.
However, the carbon sequestration market, especially the voluntary sector, remains underdeveloped, with limited data, fragmented regulations, and a lack of transparency. Demand for carbon offsets is expected to surge, and the urgency to scale carbon removal solutions by a hundredfold underscores both the environmental necessity and business potential in this field.
Recognizing this, we partnered with a founding team and a lead investor to transform an initial concept into a robust business model aimed at addressing core challenges in forestry-based carbon capture. Together, we:
• Refined the Business Concept: Collaboratively shaped a model that directly tackles the issues within forestry projects dedicated to carbon capture, ensuring it is both impactful and scalable.
• Developed Early Prototypes: Co-created initial designs for a prototype to support early-stage validation and investor discussions.
• Provided Strategic Advisory: Served as advisors to help the founders iterate on and strengthen the value proposition, leveraging our expertise in sustainability and our extensive network.
Following these foundational efforts, the venture evolved into Cambium, a company with a mission to make a significant impact on global carbon capture goals by creating sustainable ecosystems centered on reforestation and carbon credit generation.
Cambium’s Approach and Impact
Cambium is committed to the long-term environmental and economic sustainability of their projects. By integrating reforestation with traditional economic activities such as livestock farming or timber production, Cambium maximizes the value and viability of their initiatives. Key differentiators include their technological acumen, deep forestry expertise, regional knowledge, and unwavering commitment to sustainability.
Currently, Cambium operates in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, working to reverse ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss through strategic afforestation. By combining fast-growing and native species, Cambium’s ecosystems are designed to capture carbon in the short term while fostering nature regeneration in the long term.
They also offer livestock producers the opportunity to convert pasturelands into silvopastoral systems, promoting land use that aligns with both economic and environmental goals. Through this model, Cambium equips landowners with forestry knowledge, carbon market expertise, operational capabilities, technology, and capital, allowing them to continue livestock production with minimal disruption and added ecological benefits.
This project underscores the tremendous potential of nature-based carbon capture as both a business opportunity and a vital strategy in our journey toward Net Zero by 2050.
“Thanks to their broad skill set, network, and expertise in sustainability, NPL has been a valuable one-stop shop that accelerated every step of our venture’s early development.”
Marco Bressan, co-founder
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