Taking Root is a pioneering organization dedicated to utilizing reforestation as a powerful means to restore ecosystems, enhance livelihoods, and combat the pressing challenge of climate change. By placing reforestation at the heart of their mission, Taking Root strives to address multiple environmental and social issues simultaneously. The organization operates by offering carbon footprint management services and reforestation carbon offsets to both businesses and individuals. Through the sale of these services, Taking Root generates crucial funding to support their impactful initiatives. By engaging businesses and individuals in carbon offsetting, Taking Root empowers them to take responsibility for their carbon emissions and actively contribute to environmental restoration.
Taking Root's reforestation efforts have a profound impact on ecosystems, promoting biodiversity, preventing soil erosion, and restoring degraded lands. Moreover, these activities offer substantial benefits to local communities, improving livelihoods by creating sustainable employment opportunities and fostering economic development. By leveraging the power of reforestation, Taking Root not only helps restore the planet's natural balance but also addresses climate change, one of the greatest challenges of our time. Their visionary approach serves as a catalyst for positive change, offering individuals and businesses a tangible way to make a lasting difference in the fight against climate change and the preservation of our precious ecosystems.
Taking Root unlock access to the carbon market for smallholder farmers. Their technology platform and support make it simple to create transparent and robust forest carbon removals with smallholder farmers. They help the reforestation partners to successfully design, manage, and scale their forest carbon projects. Each project’s design is foundational to successfully growing trees for the long term, so they work with all of partners to review current project design, identify gaps to build a successful forest carbon project at scale, integrate technology-based approach to create transparent and robust forest carbon removals. The integrated mobile and web platform alongside the dedicated support team make it simple to manage and track forest carbon project. From registering and recruiting farmers and land to monitoring trees grown and carbon sequestered they provide the tools to help partners to meet tree and carbon targets by tracking farmer and parcel performance over time. Operations optimise by tracking project and technician activities, and scale the impact by digitising data collection and automating time consuming reporting. Their automated reporting makes it simple to create high quality carbon removals recognised by the market, following science-based and third-party approved methodologies
