RESTORES NATURE AND SUSTAINS COMMUNITIES
Why Balance
Balance® is a revolutionary system that empowers people, organisations and businesses to enrich the natural world. Our three-pillared approach:
- Generates biodiversity (restoring nature)
- Creates sustainable income (local communities)
- Fights for a stable climate (removing carbon)
Powered by our peer-reviewed methodology, Balance projects are protected for a minimum of 100 years, in harmony with CO₂’s true lifecycle. Each Balance Unit is an investment that restores ecosystems, strengthens local economies and delivers measurable, long-term climate benefits. Balance keeps the part of the old carbon system that works and is the trusted way of funding verified projects and re-engineers everything else. The result is a new model where biodiversity and community come first, and verified carbon removal follows as a result.
Generating biodiversity by restoring nature
PLANT AND PROTECT
Our projects prioritise restoring ecosystems and planting native species that create thriving habitats. We encourage Planting Partners to create biochar as a form of carbon capture and storage that works. We focus on
- Native species: Enhancing the health of local ecosystems.
- Thriving habitats: Supporting wildlife and natural regeneration processes.
- Proven impact: Verified projects with real biodiversity creation.
Social and economic impact
CREATING SUSTAINABLE INCOME FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Balance projects break the harmful cycle of monoculture forestry. They help people build sustainable livelihoods while safeguarding the future. Where there are local communities, our projects are often in remote places, and at least 40% of the Planting Partner fee goes to them. This funding supports regenerative initiatives such as beekeeping, permaculture and biochar. These activities generate income while protecting and enriching the forests.
This ensures communities are not passive beneficiaries but active stewards, earning income, protecting ecosystems and shaping the forests’ future. Over time, these locally owned enterprises make the forests self-sustaining and protect them for generations to come.
In turn, this empowers people to engage in regenerative agriculture, combining economics with ecosystems. We are proud of our:
- 100-year commitment: Forests are protected for the full carbon life cycle, moving away from the faulty carbon-credit model which only protects for 40 years.
- Biodiversity protection: Replaces monoculture with sustainable practices that build flourishing ecosystems.
- Sustainable forestry: Enriches soil, boosts biodiversity, and improves food security.
- Economic resilience: New income streams through permaculture, ecotourism and forest products.
Fighting for a stable climate by removing carbon
Plant and protect: one by one, tonne by tonne
We make sure the right trees are planted in the right places, creating long-term biodiversity and local jobs alongside climate action. Together, we support local communities, create sustainable work, and monitor ecosystems as they recover, ensuring forests thrive well beyond the carbon they store and become self-sustaining habitats for generations to come.
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FAQs
Balance projects are the first of their kind and this new system empowers organisations and businesses to enrich the natural world.
We are in a biodiversity, socio-economic and climate emergency. Balance enables partnership with customers, staff and stakeholders to build a loyal community delivering a positive solution. Forests are public spaces registered to the company, creating a three dimensional brand extension into your customers’ environment and enabling events, planting days and outdoor classrooms. You can keep customers updated on biodiversity and wildlife enhancement, building and maintaining long term relationships.
Beyond its positive environmental impact, Balance has other immediate benefits.
Balance is becoming a recognised platform, a mark of quality that shows an organisation approaches its environmental responsibilities thoughtfully and holistically. It helps companies attract and retain the best people, many of whom want to work for ethically sound companies.
Balance is designed to interact with your own ESG agenda. It moves beyond offsets and powered by our peer-reviewed methodology, the projects are the first of their kind designed to last a minimum of 100 years, in harmony with the true lifecycle of CO₂.
We advocate reduction, efficiency, and then Balance reimagines your relationship with nature.
Our three-pillar approach generates biodiversity by restoring nature, creates sustainable income for local communities and fights for a stable climate by removing carbon.
Biodiversity is not a luxury. Plants, animals and fungi do not exist in isolation but in complex and connected ecosystems that form the foundations of human life.
A healthy ecosystem performs vital roles, including preserving climate, cleaning water, maintaining soil, purifying air, recycling nutrients and creating habitats. A biodiverse ecosystem is also resilient and a good insurance against unforeseen environmental events resulting from climate change. When one part is lost the whole system is threatened, and we are losing biodiversity at unprecedented rates around the world, with thousands of species facing extinction every year.
It is very different. Each Balance® Unit is an investment in the creation of biodiversity, generating income for local communities and in turn benefiting the climate.
The six point legal framework that has evolved from our methodology cleans up, re engineers and converts a carbon credit into a Balance Unit, making it fully interoperable with the existing carbon credit system and retired on the S&P Global index, which means it cannot be double counted or sold on.
The Balance approach takes the lessons from past experience and uses them to provide a radically different and improved alternative.
We plant trees and ensure they are protected. Both matter. New woodland creation is one of the most controllable and tangible ways to take carbon out of the atmosphere and reduce climate change. But forests need protection too. Trees that are planted outside of a sustainable ecosystem will die early and release carbon back into the atmosphere. Under Balance, new trees are planted in a sustainable and biodiverse way, with forests carrying a 100-year maintenance contract from a trusted partner.
Yes, a fully Balanced business is permitted to use the Balance® Certification. This will become a widely known and trusted sign of a responsible business. The accreditation includes the grid reference location of the forest and the ‘vintage’ of the year that has been Balanced. The Balanced logo can be displayed on products accounted for within the carbon assessment, on the company’s communications, and in locations around the business.
- Planting approach supports biodiversity, with mixed natural species creating a habitat suitable to the area.
- Each contract is linked to an area of publicly accessible forest.
- 99-year maintenance and protection contracts to ensure permanence. Uniquely in harmony with the lifetime of CO₂ in the atmosphere. Existing credits only have a 40-year protection so they don’t work.
- All additionality issues addressed, meaning that contributions directly result in actual trees planted.
- Provision against ‘force majeure’, e.g. new roads through forests.
- Indigenous – Local People. Human rights are at the core of the Balance methodology. Climate action should be consistent with human rights obligations that create income for local people.
Some of this can get quite complex, so please feel free contact us if you would like to discuss any of it further, and we welcome suggestions and feedback.