ABOUT CARBONSOLVE

CarbonSolve's mission is to restore ecosystems, conserve wildlife and enhance human socio-economic development through carbon-financed land use change.

CarbonSolve’s niche in the growing carbon market is developing carbon projects in grassland and rangeland habitats where grazing and/or fire management are the dominant activities. These projects remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them in soil and/or wood, thus creating carbon credits.

The intent of all CarbonSolve's projects is to generate increased local capacity to better manage degraded rangelands, and in the process generate sufficient financial benefits from carbon revenues. These revenues will be directly distributed to local communities to

incentivize their participation
sustain the restoration activities for decades to come.

When working with local communities on grazing management and/or fire management-based carbon projects, CarbonSolve will work with its local partners to achieve the highest standards for carbon projects, notably following methodologies from the Verra Registry and guidelines from the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA). As part of the CCBA standards, it is necessary to ensure that CarbonSolve and its local partners engage with communities to launch rangeland carbon projects by following CCBA’s guidance on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes.

Formed as an exclusive partnership between three investors, these partners came together as a way to combine their expertise to advance carbon projects in rangelands around the world.

Mark Ritchie

C arbonSolve's primary shareholder is Mark E. Ritchie, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Soils for the Future LLC, a US-based for-profit company in Syracuse, New York. Mark is also the author of VM0032 1, the Verra Methodology used to advance soil carbon projects by CarbonSolve. Mark is also a Professor at Syracuse University and has published predictive models in the peer-reviewed literature 2, 3 used to implement VM0032. As a tenured Professor, Mark is able to devote more than 50% of his time to research and outreach projects such as the KRCP.

Timothy Tear

Timothy H. Tear, Ph.D., CarbonSolve co-owner and Africa conservation specialist and recently appointed Director of the Climate Change Program at BRI, has identified rangeland carbon projects as a primary activity of BRIs Climate Change Program.

David Evers

David C. Evers, Ph.D., CarbonSolve co-owner; also Founder, Executive Director, and Chief Scientist of Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI), a non-profit conservation organization based in Portland, Maine, that has been in operation for 25 years, and actively works in over 40 countries around the world. David oversees biodiversity surveys as related to soil carbon removal projects to help meet climate, community and biodiversity certification requirements.