Equitable carbon finance · Zimbabwe
Climate revenue,
back to the people holding the carbon.
GreenZig is building equitable carbon-finance infrastructure for Zimbabwe — so the communities doing the climate work receive the revenue, the data, and the say.
Our Mission
What if the people growing the carbon also kept it?
Carbon finance was supposed to fund a just transition. In Zimbabwe it too often became another extraction — deals signed over communities' heads, revenue captured offshore. We're rebuilding the model from the ground up — so the Zimbabwean households, cooperatives, and stewards who hold the carbon also hold the revenue, the data, and the seat at the table.
GreenZig is what equitable carbon finance looks like when it's designed by people who live in the landscape.
How we work
Four principles, not slogans.
Every dollar, every tonne, every decision routes back to communities — or the project doesn't ship.
Community-held carbon
Carbon rights stay with the people stewarding the land — not assigned to intermediaries or offshore developers.
Transparent revenue split
A published share goes directly to households and ward funds. No black-box deductions.
Verifiable methodology
Open MRV, third-party validation, and audit trails published before issuance.
Local governance
Project decisions made through Rural District Councils and ward committees — with technical support, not over the top of them.
Did you know?
When you buy a carbon credit, less than one in ten dollars reaches the people growing or protecting the carbon.
So where does the rest go? And what would it look like if it didn't?
Read the full storyannual voluntary-carbon market, growing fast
equitable carbon-finance fund from Zimbabwe
Advocacy
Where does the other 90% go?
Brokers, validators, platforms, developer margin. We break down the carbon-finance dollar — and what it would take to invert it for Zimbabwe.
Projects
What does an equitable pilot actually look like?
Eastern Highlands forest carbon, miombo woodland restoration, smallholder agroforestry. Three pilot landscapes, one methodology — designed so communities hold the revenue and the data.
Team
Who's building this — and why?
A founding team across Harare, the US, and Australia, building the climate-finance infrastructure Zimbabwe has been missing.
Help us build
We don't need millions. We need first believers.
The first pilots are funded by people, not platforms. If you believe carbon revenue belongs with the communities holding the carbon — back us.