Climate Collective

A leading coalition of innovators leveraging digital technology (AI, ML, blockchain) to unlock real-world, verifiable climate action at scale.

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

Achieving net zero will require removing up to 10 gigatons of CO2e annually –about 20% of global emissions today.  As 2025 approaches, here's an exciting update to help drive progress:

Building the needed emissions removal capacity is a monumental task, requiring investments in carbon removal technologies to scale from $5–13B annually to an estimated $2 trillion (!) by 2050. The voluntary carbon market (#VCM) will play a pivotal role, with the potential to generate $50B in financing by 2030. However, inefficiencies and recent controversies have slowed its growth.

Welcoming #Riverse to the @clim8collective !

Enter Riverse, founded in 2021 by Ludovic Chatoux, Grégoire Guirauden, and Clément Georget. Riverse is a carbon crediting platform that helps bring high-integrity credits from engineered carbon mitigation projects to market, bridging the gap between project developers and buyers. By emphasizing transparency and trust, Riverse accelerates the adoption of impactful climate solutions while building confidence in the voluntary carbon market.

As Ludo, CEO of Riverse, notes: "Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular and sustainable society by restoring trust in the VCM. This market is a fantastic tool to channel funding to where it's most needed, yet it has been plagued by negative headlines and inefficiencies. At Riverse, we're committed to building a system of transparency and integrity to unlock the true potential of the VCM and drive meaningful climate action."

How Riverse stands out:

🔍 Proven impact: Riverse combines technical and market expertise to help ensure projects deliver measurable environmental and social benefits. Riverse has helped 50+ project developers certify projects and 15+ sales partners market trustworthy credits, all while incorporating feedback from hundreds of experts via consultations to create accessible, robust standards for the VCM.

🏅 ICROA-endorsed: Riverse is one of only 12 organizations globally to receive ICROA accreditation and is the first of those dozen to include a focus on circular economy projects. Fully endorsed under ICROA’s new 2023 assessment procedure, Riverse’s recognition highlights the scientific rigor and transparency of the Riverse Standard, providing buyers with confidence that their credits align with their goals and drive measurable ROI.

🌍 Rigorous, data-driven certifications: By integrating ISO 14064-2-compliant methodologies with primary field data and advanced monitoring (including up to 30 data points per project), Riverse promotes precise, auditable measurements of avoided and removed emissions. Their platform is also designed to adapt to and support diverse technologies, enabling tailored, accurate credit calculations that evolve as fast as innovation and science do.

We look forward to seeing Riverse unlock more capital for emissions mitigation projects and catalyze innovation.

🌱 Please join us in welcoming Riverse to the Climate Collective!

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

We are excited to welcome @systemsrenoster into the @clim8collective!

Putting a price on carbon ensures polluters pay for the damage they cause. Two common instruments are ‘carbon tax’ and ‘Emissions Trading Systems.’ Where these systems don’t exist, the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) fills an important role.

Following the @ghgprotocol guidance, companies should first reduce internal emissions before offsetting the rest. Historically, the VCM has helped accelerated climate action, protect nature, and finance the energy transition . By enabling carbon credit exchanges between polluters and reduction/removal projects, it channels private capital toward climate impact, societal benefits, and global climate goals. However, concerns about project quality, integrity, and cost-effective infrastructure have emerged in recent years.

Founded in 2019 by @Saif1457 and Elias Ayrey (PhD), Renoster applies cutting-edge open-science methodologies and remote sensing technology to assess carbon projects' climate impact. Renoster addresses pressing flaws in carbon market quality and integrity by through rigorous, science-based reviews of forest carbon projects and transparent findings. Their radical transparency has attracted quality-focused customers, sparked industry reform and shaped anti-greenwashing regulations, including key revisions within @VerraStandards, the world’s largest carbon registry.

What makes Renoster stand out:

🔎Transparency first: Renoster is leading the way in promoting transparency in nature-based carbon projects, shedding light on inaccuracies in carbon project ratings. Their reviews, covered by global media, have catalyzed critical discussions on the integrity of carbon markets.

🛡️Commitment to integrity: Renoster’s approach encourages stronger market standards, reducing the chances of future projects taking shortcuts. By maintaining independence from project developers during the rating process, Renoster avoids conflicts of interest, ensuring objective and reliable ratings based on data from a wide range of sources. Their method combines remote sensing with academic research, industry reports, and field studies, providing a comprehensive evaluation of each project’s impact.

📚 Public accessibility & education: Renoster ensures its findings are open to the public, with 25 projects available on their Mercury Rubric page. Walkthrough videos break down key factors like additionality, baseline, leakage, and co-benefits, fostering trust in their ratings. They’ve also launched a carbon quality course to equip anyone with the skills needed for a more transparent and effective carbon market.

Welcome, Renoster! We’re excited to see you lead the way in building buyer confidence and identifying opportunities for improvement and greater impact in the VCM.

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

We are proud to welcome ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard into the @clim8collective

Our planet has 2 billion hectares of degraded land that urgently needs restoration. Yet, despite the advancements of carbon markets to support these efforts, only 3% of carbon credits are tied to reforestation projects—many of which are low-biodiversity, monoculture initiatives. One key barrier? Traditional certification can take over 18 months, slowing down progress where speed is essential.

Founded in 2020 by @ThibaultSorret and Priscille Raynaud, ERS is reimagining carbon market certification to scale ecosystem restoration efforts worldwide. By combining ground-level data with satellite imagery, ERS has created a certification model that aligns with industry standards and delivers results in as little as six months. Their focus on biodiversity, community impact, and efficient processes brings a fresh approach to climate resilience.

“We are on a mission to empower people and organisations to restore the natural world.”- @ThibaultSorret

Why we invited ERS to join the Climate Collective:

🌿 Certification criteria: ERS certification requires projects to meet high standards across three pillars: ecological recovery, carbon capture, and community impact. This focus goes beyond "co-benefits" to cement biodiversity and the interaction with local communities as core components.

📡 Ongoing, tech-driven monitoring: Leveraging digital #MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification), ERS monitors certified projects with satellite data and geolocated ground information, offering a high degree of transparency around project and impact progress, embedding accountability and integrity from the start.

⚡Rapid certification & expanding methodologies: ERS is leading with fast-track certification, certifying projects up to 4x faster than other standards. With over 150 projects submitted in 2024, ERS is one of the most active certifiers in the ARR category. The recent €5M funding will enable the development of new methodologies for certifying new types of ecosystems, ensuring ERS will scale efficiently with the market.

ERS’ mission is to empower organizations to restore nature at scale. With an ambitious goal to restore 1% of the planet by 2030, they’re setting new standards for how we use technology to help funding and achieving impactful climate solutions. Welcome, ERS, to the Climate Collective! 🌱

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

We are excited to welcome @GreenTradeCO2 into the Climate Collective.

Achieving the Paris Agreement’s targets requires bold and unified action, yet financing remains a major hurdle. With an additional $3.5 billion in investments needed worldwide, we’re at a pivotal moment to mobilize resources and bring vital impact projects to life for a sustainable future.

Founded in March 2022 by @FrederickLeusc1, GreenTrade is creating the infrastructure to enable forward financing of nature and tech-based carbon projects.  By providing tailored impact projects and energy solutions that fit their operations and supply chains, GreenTrade helps companies decarbonize and achieve their net-zero climate goals. In partnership with @neufinco , GreenTrade recently launched a blueprint project in India supporting European corporates in transitioning to renewables and reducing their energy emissions.

“Soil is the world’s second-largest carbon sink and plays a pivotal role in addressing the climate crisis with countless co-benefits for nature and society,” says Frederick Leuschner, CEO and Founder of GreenTrade. “But progress is too slow. The private sector must act collaboratively and at scale—starting today.”

What sets GreenTrade apart:
🤝Tech and nature-based projects: GreenTrade combines reduction and removal projects essential for a net-zero future. With various project types in their portfolio, from carbon capture to blue carbon, their initiatives prioritize social and environmental impact, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs).

🌱Collaboration over competition: GreenTrade is a Founding Partner of the International Soil Carbon Industry Alliance (ISCIA), an NGO dedicated to catalyzing positive change in agriculture by promoting the vital role of soil carbon. GreenTrade believes in industry unity to address the climate crisis. As such ISCIA is being established to provide a platform for experts, stakeholders and industry professionals to collaborate and share knowledge on soil carbon and agricultural decarbonisation projects.

🌍Uncompromising quality and accountability: GreenTrade is vetting every project for transparency, additionality, permanence, co benefits, and financial viability. Using the @ic_vcm Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and the Oxford Offsetting Principles as frameworks, only top-quality projects pass verification to become part of their portfolio.

GreenTrade’s mission is to reduce 100M tonnes of carbon by 2030 through innovation, collaboration, and unwavering commitment to quality. We are excited to support their journey and witness the transformative impact they’ll bring to fight climate change.

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

Did you miss our joint event w/ @clim8collective
at #ClimateWeekNYC 2024?

Explore our announcement on the next round of the #GreenAccountability Tech Accelerator & the GPSA's successor, "CIVIC: The Civil Society & Social Innovation Alliance" here: https://t.co/MXzM9Mlbsm

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

We’re thrilled to welcome @hulaearth into the @clim8collective !

Our planet is experiencing an unprecedented decline in biodiversity, and reversing this trend requires bold, innovative action. There is a major role for corporations to play here. But according to the @SDGBenchmarks , the majority of businesses are still in the process of understanding how their operations impact and rely on natural ecosystems. Only 5% of companies worldwide have assessed their environmental impact, and less than 1% understand their dependencies on nature - this urgency-action gap can in part be explained by lack of reliable data. For companies to make impactful, measurable contributions to nature restoration, they need reliable, ongoing data—and this is precisely where Hula Earth excels.
Founded in 2023 by @gsrflo and @DavidSchmider , Hula Earth was created from a deep-seated commitment to protect biodiversity. Having grown up on farms, the founders witnessed firsthand the alarming loss of natural ecosystems and the urgent need for actionable solutions. They set out to harness advanced space data and IoT technology, enabling companies to invest in biodiversity with measurable impact. Through Hula Earth, Florian and David aim to drive positive change in biodiversity conservation, fostering a more sustainable planet for generations to come.

Here is how Hula Earth stands out:

🌍 Continuous biodiversity monitoring: The proprietary Hula Platform integrates real-time satellite data with IoT sensor networks, providing a 360-degree view of key ecosystem indicators like biomass, species health, and resilience. This continuous monitoring approach offers companies precise, actionable insights, enabling data-driven decisions that drive impactful conservation strategies.

🔍 Innovative ecosystem monitoring: Hula Earth leverages a scalable, self-sufficient sensor network that once deployed, autonomously collects 24/7 microclimate and bioacoustics data without requiring ongoing maintenance. This innovative solution integrates on-site data with advanced analytics, supporting a wide range of initiatives—from offsetting and insetting to managing agricultural plots and infrastructure like solar farms.

💡Empowering corporate biodiversity investment: Hula Earth provides corporations with the opportunity to understand the biodiversity aspect in their own value chain and improve it via insetting or offsetting initiatives, like biodiversity credits from projects managed by their trusted partners. These projects are continuously monitored using Hula’s advanced system, ensuring accountability and measurable impact.

We welcome Hula Earth and together we strive to stop biodiversity loss by enabling funding for nature and helping businesses to understand their impact on biodiversity.

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

📣 It's tomorrow!

Join us and @CO2Council this Wednesday at 12 pm EST for a webinar on how digital infrastructure can help to strengthen the responsible growth of carbon removal in the Global South.

Our CEO @annalerner will be joined by @_neilhacker (@Isometric_HQ ), Shrey Agarwal (Alt Carbon), @floptopizo (@OctaviaCarbon ), and Bella Corpora (moderator, @CO2Council ) to discuss responsible deployment, co-benefits, local partnerships, and the resource trade-offs involved in scaling carbon removal.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore how carbon removal can be deployed to maximize benefits for local communities while responsibly managing risks.

#ClimateTech #CarbonRemoval #ResponsibleDeployment

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

Tomorrow's the day! Join us for the #GreenAccountability Tech Accelerator Demo Day together with @gpsa_org

We will be hearing from four teams working to bridge existing gaps in #transparency, #accountability, and #participation in #climatefinance.

Sign up https://t.co/cbQCO7ulox

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

For the past 5 months, the GPSA & @clim8collective have been working w/ 4 teams across the globe to place local stewards at the center of #climatefinance.

RSVP for the #GreenAccountability Tech Accelerator Demo Day to explore what they're working on: https://t.co/X5zVF475YJ

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

🌍Last month, we teamed up w/ @clim8collective at #ClimateWeekNYC to showcase our #GreenAccountability initiative!

🚀 We announced the next round of the Tech Accelerator & previewed CIVIC: The Civil Society & Social Innovation Alliance.

Full video: https://t.co/MXzM9Mlbsm

[NaturaTech LAC @NaturaTechLAC]

¡Alianza por el Biocorredor del Jaguar en la #COP16 🐆💫!
📅 23 de octubre  
📍 Hotel Marriott
11:40 am - 1:20 pm
Regístrate en: https://t.co/tRZ7yzpax3

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

Blog Series | #GreenAccountability Tech Accelerator's 1st Cohort

"By promoting collaborative land mgmt practices, Namunyak supports sustainable dev. & conflict resolution."

An app that integrates Indigenous knowledge w/ modern tech: https://t.co/MNZGtnD2Cq

@Space4Innovati1

[Celo @Celo]

The Celo Foundation team had a lovely evening connecting with friends & partners building planet-positive ReFi solutions at the "Digital Technology x Climate" happy hour last night! 🥂 🌱

Special thanks to @clim8collective & @MCSocialVenture for co-hosting 💛

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

Indigenous communities play a vital role in combating biodiversity loss. Their ancestral, customary, and traditional land management practices and knowledge systems offer invaluable insights, curated over generations - yet they're often excluded from international decision-making, project development, and data sovereignty framings.

We don’t think that’s always intentional. So we decided to unpack what Indigenous Shareholdership means across environmental markets and how to envision a better version of engagement.

We learned so much and realized that others would too - - so we decided to share it in a paper.

Our paper covers:
🤔Common models of engagements - and how they are problematic.
💡Ideas for how to make community consultations better
⚠️Traditional ways of ‘partnering’ with IPs - and how they often undermine project outcomes and livelihoods.
🤝Inspiration for more equitable and mutually benefitting business relationships.
🚫Some major pitfalls with the current approach to capacity-building (top-down and tokenistic).
🌍 An invitation to think differently about the knowledge and lived experiences of IPs and how project developers, businesses and international nonprofits can become Allies in our collective effort to recognize and value IPs biocultural perspectives.

It might feel uncomfortable to read at times  - but trust us and a number of inspiring Indigenous Leaders and other translators or experts - you will gain valuable insights and a handful of concrete tools you can use going forward.

This work is led by Ñkwi Flores and @serota.

It would have been impossible without the insights and recommendations of @dreaburbank @savimbos Joel Koupermann @FPachamama_Ec Eric Wilburn @BezosEarthFund AJ Bird Bird & McCrimmon @gradeckas Simeon Max Dr Sonja Stuchtey @TheLandbanking Tim Coles Victor Mancilla @AlisonFiller Claudia Ortiz.

#Collaboration is a catalyst for change.

We'll continue to build on this work and are actively seeking additional perspectives and feedback.  Reach out to [email protected] if you'd like to support our next iteration.

English and Spanish version’s of the report 👉https://t.co/66oTUAM4lC

[Mercy Corps Ventures @MCSocialVenture]

Climate Collective and ReFi Friends
📅 Thursday, Sept. 26 ⌚ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM EDT https://t.co/ck3oni8zyK

@clim8collective @Celo

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

📅NEXT THURSDAY

Join our #ClimateWeekNYC event where we will also be announcing the second #GreenAccountability Tech Accelerator cohort, and new opportunities for innovators working on participatory tech in climate.

Register here: https://t.co/kNs3qzqqVe

@clim8collective

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

🌱We couldn't be more excited to host our event "Financing People-Driven Climate Solutions: Green Accountability for a Livable Planet" at the @NestCampus!

⏳Register & stay tuned for some exciting announcements around WB-civil society partnerships
https://t.co/aEOuR36MOX

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

🌍Join us in-person in NYC as we discuss the role of citizens and CSOs in monitoring climate finance commitments and how institutions like the World Bank can scale their climate innovations.

Register here: https://t.co/aEOuR36MOX

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

#NYClimateWeek is right around the corner - and we’re back for some of that in-person goodness.
Beyond the many events we are attending, we’re putting on a show with friends on Tuesday and Thursday.

🌿September 24, 2 pm (NYC )🌿@clim8collective, @Nature4Climate , @KPMG , @superorganismvc and @naturex_ntc are teaming up for an event focused on highlighting real use cases with leading nature tech companies and large corporations, showcasing practical solutions that are making a tangible impact in the journey toward a sustainable future. https://t.co/aMTUbIEGeS

🌿September 26, 2 pm ET (NYC)🌿@TheWorldBank's @GPSA_org and @clim8collective are joining forces to shine a light on the impact of #GreenAccountability on climate finance and a more equitable transition. Join us for a conversation on how to boost transparency and accessibility of climate finance to ensure grassroot actors are fairly compensated. We'll be sharing some real-world examples of Green Accountability in action from around the globe as well as a teaser of the tech solutions that are coming out of our Green Accountability Tech Accelerator. https://t.co/29xNRNtF2H

🌿September 26, 6:30 pm ET (NYC)🌿 Join @clim8collective, @CeloOrg and @MCSocialVenture for a NYCW community networking event over food and drinks. https://t.co/C0oNoegMEN

If none of those work, here are other places you might catch us:

📆Sunday
Goals House

📆Monday
Catalyzing Carbon Finance for High-Quality NCS Projects & Time100 Climate Leaders Forum

📆Tuesday
Blitzscaling High Quality Carbon Removal, NatureHub & Climate Leaders’ Assembly

📆Wednesday
IETA’s North America Climate Summit & Accelerating Climate Action Day

[Climate Collective @clim8collective]

We are so excited to welcome @projectearthly into the @clim8collective!

In 2020, a shared passion for tackling climate change led entrepreneurs @olly_bolton and Lorenzo Curci to found Earthly. Their mission? To empower businesses to invest in high-quality nature-based solutions.

They’re a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists with a shared passion for reversing climate breakdown and restoring our planet. Their focus? Identifying and funding the most impactful nature-based projects globally, optimizing benefits for carbon reduction, biodiversity restoration, and improved livelihoods.

Here's what sets Earthly apart:
🔬 Science-Driven Screening & Monitoring: Their NbS project scoring tool analyzes 106 data points evenly split across carbon, biodiversity, and people, all backed by the guidance of their independent scientific advisory board. They also leverage geospatial data for ongoing project monitoring and are developing a climate risk/resilience module. From the 400 projects they’ve screened over the last 12 months only 8% of projects have met their minimum standards across all quality indicators.

📈 Scaling Nature-Based Solutions: Earthly’s platform is designed to accelerate funding to NbS and their screening tool is agonistic to registry or ecosystems allowing them to build bespoke portfolios of projects for their clients that align with their values, geographies and wider sustainability strategies. Their 650+ clients include heavyweights @caixabank , @ATVI_AB @SPGlobal, and @LOrealUSA .

🦋 Voluntary Biodiversity Credits: They’re recently launched a new Voluntary Biodiversity Credit product based on the UK’s new compliance scheme. Each credit is linked to a 9 sq/m plot and legally protected for biodiversity net gain over 30 years. The first purchase was from King (Candy Crush) was for 543 credits at ~$35,000 👉👉https://t.co/kNMbSGfw0z

Earthly slots right into the @clim8collective Nature & Biodiversity cohort -> we’re thrilled to support you in your goal to protect and restore >1% of the planet by 2030 (>150 million hectares!).