Carbon credits are crucial for incentivizing emissions reductions, promoting clean technologies, and supporting conservation efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity collapse. However they currently lack robust safeguards in monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV), leading to inaccuracies and inefficiencies. A recent Guardian article highlighted that more than 90% of credits are deemed worthless due to incorrect baselines.

GainForest aims to assist nature-based conservation and climate-focused projects by designing a planetary computer with open and transparent analysis capabilities. The planetary computer is a cutting-edge computational platform that harnesses the power of decentralized science and open AI models and data to deliver continuous improvements and provide projects with AI-driven analysis based on their submitted data. This includes processing and analyzing wildlife camera and drone imagery, offering insights into the state of forests, animal detections, and other critical ecological parameters. By leveraging advanced technologies and promoting open collaboration, the planetary computer empowers climate NGOs to make data-driven decisions and implement effective conservation and climate action initiatives, without the need of AI expertise.

We are proud to have onboarded several key partners onto our platform, including the government of Paraguay, the Bhutan Ecological Society, the Kayapo Indigenous Project, and local youth-led NGOs in the Philippines, among others. These organizations are already benefitting from our algorithms and transparency dashboard (https://maps.gainforest.app). 