Select degraded land
Carbon Direct describes re.green's use of satellite imagery, drones and spatial models to identify and prioritise sites.
Developer · Brazil
re.green restores degraded land with native species and develops carbon removal projects across Brazil. The company reports its portfolio totals separately from any one client partnership.
Based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Working in the Atlantic Forest and Amazon, Brazil
Ben HaTeva / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5Company portfolio · Brazil
These are company-wide figures published on re.green’s site. They do not describe the Nestlé activity alone.
Original sourcere.green · Company and portfolio (opens another site)About and We are doing it
Restoration approach
Carbon Direct describes the methods it reviewed for re.green’s Microsoft agreement.
Carbon Direct describes re.green's use of satellite imagery, drones and spatial models to identify and prioritise sites.
The company restores Atlantic Forest and Amazon landscapes with native species. Carbon Direct reported a list of 300 native species at the time of its assessment.
Carbon Direct assessed nursery capacity, seed supply, long-term maintenance and credit delivery risk for the Microsoft agreement.
Original sourceCarbon Direct · Technical diligence for Microsoft's re.green agreement (opens another site)Focus Areas, Carbon Direct Diligence and Behind the Credit
Commercial and delivery relationships
Each relationship has its own role and source. The agreements and company portfolio are wider than the Southern Bahia plan with Nestlé.
Carbon removal offtake
Two agreements announced in 2024 and 2025 cover up to 6.5 million tonnes of removals from a proposed 33,000 hectares across the Atlantic Forest and Amazon. These are contract and restoration plans, not issued-credit totals.
Original sourceCarbon Direct · Technical diligence for Microsoft's re.green agreement (opens another site)Focus Areas, Carbon Direct Diligence and Behind the Credit
Original sourcere.green · Microsoft partnership expansion (opens another site)Agreement announcement · 22 January 2025
Technical diligence
Carbon Direct visited Atlantic Forest parcels and nurseries, and reviewed restoration and credit delivery risks for Microsoft's agreement.
Original sourceCarbon Direct · Technical diligence for Microsoft's re.green agreement (opens another site)Focus Areas, Carbon Direct Diligence and Behind the Credit
Finance
re.green reported securing R$80 million from BNDES's Climate Fund, with a Bradesco guarantee and advisory support, for restoration in the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Original sourcere.green · R$80 million Climate Fund transaction (opens another site)Financing announcement · 19 May 2025
Restoration partnership
Nestlé and re.green announced a separate, approximately 2,000-hectare Southern Bahia plan in 2025. The activity has its own evidence page in this hub.
Original sourcere.green · Southern Bahia partnership with Nestlé (opens another site)Partnership announcement · 17 July 2025
Open the Southern Bahia activityCarbon market · earlier restoration
It reported 36,877 Verra-certified units from more than 1,600 hectares restored in Eunápolis and Potiraguá between 2022 and 2025. This is a company announcement; the source does not establish that those units came from the Nestlé partnership.
Original sourcere.green · Atlantic Forest carbon-credit issuance (opens another site)First batch and restoration period · 14 May 2026
Announced activity · Southern Bahia
Nestlé Brasil and re.green announced an Atlantic Forest restoration and conservation partnership in Southern Bahia’s cocoa and coffee landscape. The plan’s area and tree figures are targets, not measured results. Its published sources do not provide a verified site boundary.
Original sourcere.green · Southern Bahia partnership with Nestlé (opens another site)Partnership announcement · 17 July 2025
Examine the Southern Bahia planFollow the evidence
The Nature Exposure tool connects re.green to Nestlé’s company statements and the announced Bahia plan. It does not treat re.green’s wider portfolio or its earlier credit issuance as results of that plan.