Envirotrade Ltd is an ethical business. We work together with forest communities to grow trees that the community will nurture throughout the sequestration cycle. Small farmers are assisted to maximise food production and are paid a percentage of the carbon trading revenue. Farmers and not Envirotrade Ltd own the trees and land rights.

Our objective is to plough investment into poor local communities and their degraded environments and broker carbon offsets sequestered by habitat rehabilitation and sustainable land use practices on the international emissions trading market to build livelihoods.

Envirotrade Ltd aims to enrich the lives of small farmers, promote biodiversity and mitigate global warming while creating a healthy and sustainable business for the future. It is a groundbreaking business model that will bring about enormous and positive social, economic and environmental change to the developing world.

Buying offsets from our projects is not simply a cynical mechanism to let polluters in the developed world off the hook - it is a way of bringing meaningful development to poverty stricken forest communties and contributing to the growing effort to address climate change.

Founder and Funding

Robin Birley, a UK based entrepreneur and environmentalist founded and pump-primed the initial development in Gorongosa and through his company Envirotrade continues to invest in poverty alleviation projects that address conservation challenges. The Nhambita Community Carbon Project successfully competed against a large number of other applicants to win funding worth nearly 1.8 million Euros from the European Commission to extend the original project to a wider area within the buffer zone. Funding from DFID assisted with the project design. Carbon offsets has been sold to the UK based company The Carbon Neutral Company and the Creative Artists Agency of Los Angeles has offset 55 000 tCO2 emissions over the past two years through the project. Institutions like the International Institute for Environment and Development have also offset their carbon footprint through Nhambita.