OREGON CLIMATE TRUST

Description

The Climate Trust, a quickly growing non-profit based in Portland, OR, is a national leader in the development and promotion of high quality greenhouse gas offset projects. We are committed to staving off a disastrous rise in global temperatures by accelerating the pace of carbon mitigation through increased deployment of conservation finance. To accelerate the pace of project development, we have found that early-stage funding is critical-offering greater potential for impact and supporting the scaling of low-carbon initiatives.

Climate Trust Capital, an independent firm of The Climate Trust, launched a first-of-its-kind fund to channel large volumes of financing into early-stage projects that will create real and permanent reductions and generate verifiable offsets. We are currently deploying the funding of our pilot fund in our preferred sectors-forestry, grassland conservation, and livestock digesters. We plan to incorporate additional sectors as our investment fund scales and move beyond the borders of the U.S. in the longer term.