THE CHALLENGE
Deforestation and desertification suggest serious challenges to sustainable development and affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Forests are fundamental for sustaining life on Earth and play a key role in fighting the climate change.
The recent report State of Finance for Nature in G20 confirms the urgency to of speed up land restoration around the world focusing on restoration and afforestation, particularly by leveraging private investment which currently accounts for less than 10% of land restoration.
The problem relies on an annual spending of USD 285 billion by 2050 and hundreds of millions of hectares requiring reforestation.
Generating and regenerating forests requires technical skills, many years of supervision and afforestation monitoring, as well as a long-term commitment of resources, and forest makers.
Lack of adequate financing and complex access to it have always been the reason blocking the full potential of forests to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Forest investment has to be democratized. Connect investors directly to forest makers. Unlock large-scale forestry financing.
THE VALUE PROPORSAL
FOREST MAKER is a web3 solution to unlock large-scale forest financing, democratizing the access to forest investment and aligning economic incentives.
FOREST MAKER makes it possible for all forest makers around the world to access financing for their forestry projects by offering profitability and liquidity alternatives to retail and institutional investors.
FOREST MAKER solves three problems that are currently blocking forestry investment in the world: first, the administrative complexity for retail investor access; second, the low liquidity of these long-term investment projects, and third, the reliability on the positive environmental and social impact of the projects.
FOREST MAKER combines three protocols to overcome these challenging situations. FOREST MYNT PROTOCOL, which provides forest makers with a simple tool for tokenization of their forestry projects; SEEDLAUNCH PROTOCOL forest makers pitch their projects to the investment community by offering competitive liquidity and profitability options; and FORESTKEEPERS PROTOCOL, a decentralized Monitoring, Reporting and Verification protocol to be implemented by the community to encourage its members to act as validators of forestry projects to increase reliability and ensure positive environmental and social impact.