South Pole
Organizational profile:
South Pole, a social enterprise recognised by the World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation, is today the world's leading climate solutions provider and carbon project developer. Since its creation in 2006, it has developed nearly 1,000 projects in over 50 countries to reduce over one gigaton of CO2 emissions, and to provide social benefits to less privileged communities who are particularly vulnerable to climate change. South Pole also advises thousands of leading companies on their sustainability journeys to achieve net-zero emissions. With its global Climate Solutions platform, South Pole develops and implements comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for companies, governments and organizations around the world.
South Pole is offering land-owners, community groups, conservation organisations, and other groups who would benefit from climate finance, an opportunity to develop their Nature-based Solutions (NBS) carbon projects. South Pole believes NBS need to be a central part of the post-COVID green recovery. And as a truly global environmental company, with over 600 experts in 23 global offices, South Pole is uniquely positioned to support you in adding a sustainable and supplementary source of income to fund your NBS projects.
South Pole is looking to facilitate climate finance to forestry and land-use projects that protect wildlife, empower communities, and create sustainable economies. As your expert partner, South Pole will help channel climate finance and provide the technical know-how for you to measure, monitor and monetise the emission reductions achieved by your project. By developing carbon assets from your project, you can earn an additional revenue stream to support your planet-saving activities.
Financing Instrument: potentially South Pole can provide technical assistance, project development, pre and/or post verification credit purchases, and equity
Project scale: N/A
Recipient countries regions/country groups: Global
Recipient categories: Land-owners, NGOs, conservation organizations, community groups
Eligibility Criteria:
To be considered for Conservation and Restoration projects, projects must meet either of the following minimum requirements:
- Ecosystem protection projects – minimum 10,000 ha of standing forest or larger than 5,000 hectares of carbon-rich ecosystems, such as peatland or mangroves, with demonstrable capacity to address the drivers of deforestation or degradation in the project area.
- Restoration projects – must have the potential to restore at least 1,200 hectares, with a minimum of 100 hectares already under restoration management.
- For more details on the minimum requirements, please refer to the Detailed Project Requirements section on this webpage.
To be considered for large-scale Nature-based Solutions, projects must meet either of the following minimum requirements:
- Ecosystem protection projects – minimum of 50,000 hectares of standing forest or larger than 7,500 hectares of carbon-rich ecosystems, such as peatland or mangrove forest, with demonstrable capacity to address the drivers of deforestation or degradation in the project area.
- Restoration projects – must have the potential to restore at least 500 hectares per year for 10 years, with a minimum of 500 hectares already under restoration management.
- For more details on the minimum requirements, please refer to the Detailed Project Requirements section on this webpage.
Application guidelines:
Please be aware that meeting the basic requirements does not guarantee support or partnership with South Pole. All submissions within a calendar month are reviewed, as a group, after the end of the month. Applicants will be notified prior to the end of the subsequent calendar month of the status of their submission. Applicants need to submit an online application at the website of the South Pole.
For questions or comments, please contact sourcing.rfp@southpole.com