TIST Farmers respond effectively to the climate change challenge.
TIST encourages Small Groups of subsistence farmers to improve their local environment and farms by planting and maintaining trees on degraded and/or unused land.
Over 95,000 farmers in 4 countries have successfully planted more than 19,800,000 trees and captured over 5,500,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to date.
As the trees grow, carbon captured is quantified and verified and certified greenhouse gas credits are sold in the global carbon market.
TIST Farmers receive annual carbon pre-payments for each tree established and
70% of the net profit when credits are sold.
Smallholder farmers also derive significant non-carbon related benefits verified to exceed $8 per tree. Trees provide fruit, fodder, fuel, windbreaks, shade and stabilize riverbanks plus participants have access to health information and training and safe cooking stoves.
What we are doing right now:
Highly-effective climate change restoration
Restoring existing degraded land is a highly effective climate change opportunity.
Planting 19+ million trees, alive and counting
Tree planting is one of the simplest and most cost effective means of mitigating climate change, by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Sequestering carbon and improving lives
TIST's verified results show that the current farmers have received over $140 million in benefits that are additional to the carbon income. That is over $8 of benefits so far for each tree planted and kept alive.
The TIST Program creates dual validated & verified carbon reductions.
TIST was the world's first dual validated and verified carbon offsetting program by Verified Carbon Standard and Climate, Community and Biodiversity standards.
TIST was voted Best Offsetting Project and Best Project Developer in Forestry and Land Use.
