PIONEERING BEST IN CLASS COMMUNITY BASED REGENERATION WORK IN BLUE CARBON FORESTRY
What is GMT ?
Global Mangrove Trust (GMT) is a Singapore-based non-profit organisation, brought to life by a diverse team of innovators, educators, and environmentalists, all united under a robust advisory board comprising forward-thinking individuals and organisations. Our mission, fueled by both urgency and hope, is to pioneer the tools to empower communities, businesses, and state governments to deploy self-financing regenerative easements around all the mangroves on Earth.
Our Mission
Empowering communities to deploy self-financing regenerative easements around all the mangroves on Earth.
[2021] Launch of Mangrove Project in North Sumatra
Global Mangrove Trust (GMT), in collaboration with Yayasan Gajah Sumatera (YAGASU), initiated the GMT restoration & conservation project in North Sumatra, Indonesia (001-OxC) in 2021, protecting virgin and degraded mangrove areas with four villages implementing pre-defined Avoided Deforestation Activities.
These have a direct positive impact on the environment, biodiversity, climate, and livelihoods. 001-OxC is the pilot blue carbon project verified by the Kumi Analytics Carbon Sequestration Assessment Tool (KACSAT) with credit issuance under Oxcarbon Principles and the IHS Markit registry.
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- Project Updates
In the closing months of 2023, the team at Yagasu has taken significant strides in fostering a culture of environmental…
In the heart of our project area, the diligent efforts of the OxC Patrolling teams continue to make an impact…
As we step into 2024, Global Mangrove Trust (GMT) proudly embarks on an impactful initiative to plant 80,000 trees across…
How We Work
Transparency
Enrich the link between donors and projects with tools for tracking funds and performance.
Efficiency
Maximize the impact of each sponsorship dollar through scalable, automated funding logics.
Husbandry
Provide conservation rewards to ensure communities protect their forests over the long-term.
Crafting a Novel Blue Carbon Verification and Financing Solution
Together with Kumi Analytics and OxCarbon Standard, we are employing pathbreaking sequestration assessment methodologies based on space-based impact verification. KACSAT makes verification quick, accurate, transparent and real time, while machine learning makes validation more accurate and robust at very high scales.
Partnership
Working with Marex, Kumi Analytics and The Smith School of Enterprise & Environment
Miracle Mangroves
Mangroves are truly miracles of nature. They form GREEN SHIELDS, protecting coastal communities from rising seas, storms, and even tsunamis. Their roots form a living lattice for coastal food webs and provide breeding grounds for baby fish and crustaceans and protection for a wealth of flora, fauna, and birdlife. Their roots filter the water, reducing pollution, lowering salinity, and helping flora and fauna to thrive. As the forests grow, they prevent erosion and help reclaim land from the sea by capturing sediment from run-off to form new earth. In addition, mangroves form GREEN LUNGS, producing massive amounts of oxygen and sequestering ten times more carbon than temperate forests
Our Partners
WIF works with local communities to reforest and conserve mangrove forests in Myanmar and across the Bay of Bengal.
GMT is excited to be developing the Forest Scan sustainable land use tool and organizing the 002-OxC scale-ups with generous support from UBS Climate Collective.
The Climate Foundation has supported GMT’s early work pioneering the GROVE platform with generous and sustained donations of AWS cloud credits.
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance develops and introduces financial tools that mobilize billions in private funds for climate action and sustainable development.
Collaborating on a broader initiative to pioneer an innovative solution lowering the cost of verifying carbon credits using satellite data and machine learning.
Personio Foundation supports forward-thinking nonprofit organizations operating in the fields of climate action and education.
Handprint brings people and companies together to plant trees to fight global warming and restore the planet.
SDFA accelerates research and innovation in digital finance solutions to align the financial system with the needs of sustainable development.
REGEN Network is a global marketplace and contracting platform for Earth’s ecosystem assets, services, and data.
