en.Wedoany.com Reported - Singapore-based Thryve.Earth has secured its first commercial offtake agreements, signing nature-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) deals with Symbiosis members Google and McKinsey, as well as Tencent.

The agreements with Google and McKinsey represent a 10-year commitment totaling over 335,000 tonnes of nature-based carbon dioxide removal; the agreement with Tencent includes 300,000 tonnes, also to be delivered over 10 years.

For Google, this is its largest carbon dioxide removal offtake commitment to date; for Tencent, it is its first nature-based offtake commitment outside of China.

The carbon removal from these two contracts will be achieved by restoring degraded land in the Sulawesi region of Indonesia. This area is considered one of the most biodiverse and carbon-dense regions on Earth.

In this region, Thryve.Earth will plant fruit trees, timber forests, and new crops that store carbon dioxide while generating sustainable income for local communities.

Sulawesi's tropical rainforests have been degraded by a combination of shifting cultivation, soil erosion, and invasive species. Landscapes once rich in dense forests and biodiversity are now covered with invasive, fire-prone grasses, making it difficult for farmers to sustain their livelihoods due to increasingly depleted soils.

Thryve.Earth's project in the region aims to restore these landscapes through an agroforestry system. This system replenishes soil, reduces fire risk, increases biodiversity and local farmer income, while simultaneously achieving carbon removal.

Its model includes sugar palm trees and timber forests in the upper canopy; papaya, avocado, coffee, and banana in the middle layer; and annual crops such as chili and corn in the lower layer.

The model used in this project builds on a model successfully tested in Temboan, Sulawesi, and East Kalimantan.

Farmers were previously unable to benefit from these systems on their own due to the upfront costs of clearing existing invasive grasses and planting new trees and crops. This underscores the critical importance of carbon finance, which will drive the scaling of Thryve.Earth's projects.