HOW IT WORKS
Financing forest adaptation with carbon credits
Forest adaptation stores more carbon
Through forest adaptation, you increase the climate resilience of your forest and thus store additional carbon.
We certify this ecosystem service
Pina Earth quantifies and certifies this carbon storage performance and issues carbon credits for it.
Income from the sale of the credits
Companies buy your carbon credits to offset emissions and thus achieve their climate protection targets.
THE PROCESS
Your access to the voluntary carbon market
Specification of contact details, as well as info about the forest area, and the planned adaptation measures
Estimate of the carbon storage potential of the project based on, among other things, the last inventory.
Determination of the adaptation measures and signing of the project contract
Aerial survey of the forest and subsequent quantification and certification of the carbon storage performance.
Generation and sale of credits for the first years of the project
Climate protection projects with Pina Earth
Future-proof
Through forest adaptation, you increase the climate resilience of your forest and thus ensure its continued existence. You can finance this from the very first year through the voluntary carbon market.
Full service
Pina Earth quantifies the carbon storage performance and handles the certification and sale of the carbon certificates. This allows you to focus entirely on forest management.
Customized
Every forest is different and you know yours best. According to your specifications, the adaptation measures are determined. Pina Earth only provides minimum standards.
Recurring income
We sell a portion of the credits generated over a total of 30 years in regular cycles. In this way, you already have income from the start of the project - even before the entire carbon storage performance occurs.
Maximum transparency
The projects, methodology used, and calculation results are stored in a publicly accessible way. Thus, certificates can be clearly traced back to the performance of specific projects.
Potential check first
You should know what you are investing in. Therefore, we first use existing data to estimate the revenue potential of a project and only then draw up a project contract together.
supported by
The "Pina" project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the European Social Fund as part of the EXIST program.
Frequently asked questions
Are there eligibility criteria for a project with Pina?
To carry out a project with Pina, the following criteria must be met:
- The forest area is a private or corporate forest.
- You are allowed to carry out adaptation activities and commercially harvest timber on the forest land (e.g. because you own or are contracted to manage the land).
- The persons implementing the project have the experience and skills to successfully implement the planned measures. Evidence of this may include education or relevant work experience.
- The same carbon storage performance may only be counted once. This means that you may claim carbon credits either through Pina Earth or through other programs, but not in parallel.
What happens in case of calamities?
In the event of a storm, fire, bark beetle infestation, etc., the so-called risk buffer takes effect. In this buffer, a proportion of the certificates are set aside by each project, depending on a standardized risk assessment. In this way, potentially destroyed certificates can be replaced by previously set aside certificates.b In this case, the forest owner does not bear any additional costs. The project can then either be continued or restarted on the same forest area.
Is there enough demand for the CO₂ certificates?
The voluntary emissions market in which Pina operates is currently growing very strongly. The demand for regional CO₂ certificates, i.e. from projects in Germany, is particularly high and continues to grow. In order to achieve the optimal price for your certificates, Pina is in discussion with multiple market participants (e.g. leading sustainability consultancies).