Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Brazil is home to 60 percent of the Amazon Basin but over the last 50 years, Brazil’s Amazon has lost about a fifth of its forest cover to deforestation. Reforestation is one of the world’s largest-scale opportunities to remove carbon from the atmosphere and rehabilitate ecosystems.

Mombak, a Brazilian startup supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, is focused on generating high-quality carbon credits through reforestation of the Amazon. The company aims to create the world’s largest, high-quality carbon removal platform by purchasing or partnering with landowners to transition land use from cattle pasture to native reforestation.

Learn more about the Mombak vision here: rockefellerfoundation.org/insights/grantee-impact-story/reforestation-spurs-a-new-economic-model