Over the past two decades, the world lost more than 76M hectares of primary forest and is now facing alarming nature imbalance and biodiversity collapse.

As an answer to this predicament, our founders started Forest Carbon in 2010 to restore and protect critical ecosystems, building an expert team and developing groundbreaking innovations to achieve these goals.

Indonesia, a country with 120 million hectares of forest estate and high rates of deforestation, became the place where our story began.

We started to turn degraded, burnt lands back into thriving ecosystems.

And we made it our mission to preserve remaining forests by removing the threats that would destroy them.

Our flagship restoration model in South Sumatra that launched in 2016 brought back 40% canopy cover in our project area within just 8 years.

We are now expanding our impact by creatively funding and replicating this success across Indonesia and beyond.

Our Story


Forest Carbon
2010
Forest Carbon was founded in Indonesia
Project Design:
Rimba Raya Project, Indonesia's first peatland protection project Central Kalimantan
Project Design:
Seima, Cambodia - WCS Biodiversity Protection Project
SMPP LogoSMPP Base camp
2016
Launched the
Sumatra Merang Peatland Project
Athelia
2017
Closed a $6M USD loan from the Althelia Climate Fund to build SMPP
Issued the first carbon credits for SMPP
2019
AXA
2020
AXA led Series A round with a total of $11M USD in equity and debt
Successfully repaid investors from the Althelia Climate Fund
2021
SMPP Project
2023
Acquired a 37,000 Hectares forest restoration asset in Kalimantan and secured our other assets in Indonesia
AXASaratogaUBS
Closed a Series B round of $13.5M USD of equity anchored by Saratoga Investama and AXA

Secured grants of $2.3M USD from major foundations, including UBS Foundation
Funding vehicle endorsement by Global Innovation Lab at Climate Week NYC 2024
2024
The Lab
Forest Carbon
Launched Forest Carbon's new sonic identity
2026
Goal:
1 M hectares of forest under management

Vision to Impact

Our Approach