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Why Rainforest?

Tropical rainforest: the most advanced, carbon-capturing tech on the planet.

Tropical rainforests are vital carbon sinks that regulate our global climate and irreplaceable ecosystems.

Put simply, forest cools the earth, and this is why we focus our work and your cash here. Carbon-capturing tropical biomes account for the highest area of forest globally. Keeping rainforest intact can provide 23% of climate mitigation urgently needed to cool our planet.

But forest around the world is being destroyed at an alarming rate despite intergovernmental promises to halt deforestation. Climate breakdown is intensifying forest loss as tropical, humid forests become drier, causing trees to die and fires to burn for longer – creating a devastating feedback loop.

Deforestation damages a rainforest’s ability to sequester (that’s capture and store) carbon and instead, releases it into the atmosphere. This affects all life on earth; our future depends on the health of rainforest.

Sequestration isn’t the only thing rainforest does for us.

These precious biomes affect our weather, the air we breathe, biodiversity and our food and medicine, not to mention that rainforest is home to millions and millions of people bearing the brunt of deforestation.

Protecting tropical rainforest is a cost-effective and potent way to fight the climate crisis. All we have to do is protect it.

Rainforest: A SNAPSHOT

66%

Carbon Stored

An estimated two-thirds of the carbon stored in the world’s trees can be found in tropical rainforest

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Rainforest Biomes

Cool Earth works across the Amazon, Congo Basin, and New Guinea rainforest biomes.

13.5M

Square Kilometres

Yes, you read that correctly. Tropical rainforest covers 13.5 million square kilometres of our planet.

Not all trees are equal

All trees are important, but some more than others. We focus our work on tropical rainforest due to its sheer potential to store carbon and regulate our global climate. Swot up on tropical rainforest and protect the greatest carbon sinks on Earth.

Carbon-capturing Trees

Read about how the most advanced, carbon-capturing tech on Earth grows in the ground.

Biodiverse Ecosystems

Protecting trees alone is not enough. Find out why biodiversity is crucial in the capture of carbon.

Carbon Potential of Forest

Why the state of rainforest is so crucial for our planet's health.

Rainforest Threats

Many of the threats in rainforest can be reduced. The challenges often faced by people living in these precious carbon sinks boil down to a lack of livelihood opportunities and the need to adapt to climate-induced pressures.

Logging

Selling land for deforestation is often a result of financial needs, needs that can be eased with simple, effective solutions.

Logging

Selling land for deforestation is often a result of financial needs, needs that can be eased with simple, effective solutions.

Mining

Mining, especially in the Congo is increasing, minerals are extracted for batteries to fuel the expansion out of fossil fuels and into electric.

Industrial Farming

Cattle and the soy to feed them is a huge driver of deforestation, monoculture crops also damage biodiversity and leave ecosystems vulnerable.

Climate Breakdown

All extractive industries contribute to rising CO2 levels as well as many other aspects of modern life - all with serious knock-on effects for our planet, especially in rainforest.

Radical Solutions

Discover how complex problems in rainforest can be tackled at the root.

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