"Wildlife Works Carbon - a unique growth investment in stopping deforestation, protecting biodiversity and mitigating climate change" Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC) was founded in 2009 explicitly to pursue a market based solution to stopping deforestation and curbing climate change, known as REDD+. WWC protects threatened forests by getting forest communities and governments to agree to stop deforesting in return for investments that allow them to pursue a green development path. WWC’s field teams work closely with local communities to help them leverage our investments to create forest friendly jobs, to improve their agricultural output, to develop non-forest fuel sources, and to dramatically improve access to health and education. WWC earns millions of tons of Verified Emission Reductions(VERs) for successfully stopping deforestation, and these VERs are then sold internationally to produce a return on our investments.
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The World’s Leading REDD+ Project Development Company
August 2014
“This is an opportunity to use the power of the global carbon marketplace to preserve some of the most spectacular primary forests on the planet, preserving entire ecosystems full of magnificent biodiversity, while working closely to enhance the way of life of forest communities —and to make money doing it.”
Mike Korchinsky, Co-Founder and President of WWC
Mitigating Climate Change by Protecting Threatened Forests
• The UN has determined we need to reduce emissions 17B tons per year by 2020 to avoid catastrophic climate change.
• The deforestation of 30M acres every year causes 7B tons of GHG emissions, 15% of annual global GHG emissions – more than the global transportation sector. Deforestation has other devastating impacts such as endangering biodiversity and reducing fresh water supply.
• The UN mechanism Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation(REDD+) stops deforestation by providing real economic alternatives to forest communities.
• The UN has a goal to achieve 1B tons per year of emission reductions from REDD+ programs by 2020
Wildlife Works Voted 2013 Best REDD+ (Forest) Project Developer
#1 • Global Leaders from both public and private sectors are committed to support this goal
• Wildlife Works is the leading REDD+ project development company in the world today.
Wildlife Works REDD+ Projects address local, regional and national Green Development Goals – to serve international climate mitigation objectives.! !Wildlife Works REDD+ Projects address drivers of deforestation by investing in 6 dimensions of green development:!!1.Food!2.Education!3.Health!4.Job Creation!5.Energy!6.Infrastructure or Housing!!!!!! !
Wildlife Works has a worldwide portfolio of best-in-class Projects and Prospects that have –!!1. Social Impacts 2. Biodiversity Impacts 3. National Significance 4. Global Significance !And are of Strategic Importance to Wildlife Works !!!! !
Corporations •$1B+ revenues !•Offsetting or are considering offsetting!•Disclose emissions!
- The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) had 4112 participants in 2012!- Public corporations in the United Kingdom are required to disclose their emissions!
•Exhibit responsible environmental practices and good corporate citizenship !!There are several thousand qualified buyer prospects with the capacity to purchase REDD+ VERs in volume ranges of 50k-1M tons annually.
Wildlife Works established the market for REDD+ VERs. Our early customers are some of the world's leading corporations who are offsetting their carbon footprint. !
*Allianz and Kering are customers as well as equity investors. !