Terra Global’s CEO, Leslie Durschinger had the opportunity to meet with Colombian President Iván Duque as well as the Ambassador Francisco Santos Calderón during their visit to San Francisco to meet the directors of venture capital funds. Their visit was aimed to attract greater financial resources to the Colombian ecosystem.
Terra Global was awarded a Conservation Innovation Grant from USDA-NRCS to work closely with ranchers to create value for producers and impact investors through marketable GHG/environmental credits on range/pasture lands.
This January, a team from Terra Global Capital traveled to Myanmar to finalize the biodiversity survey procedures, and train local staff on observation techniques. Myanmar’s newest protected area, North Zamari, was identified to be a Key Biodiversity Area due to many irreplaceable species and the high concentration of Asian Elephants in this area of the Bago Yoma Mountains. North Zamari is protected as an Elephant Sanctuary, but the number of elephants and other species High Conservation Value are unknown.
A response to FERN’s paper “Unearned Credit”
To deliver on its commitment to carbon neutral operations, Terra Global completed its 11th year of measuring and verifying the greenhouse gas emissions from the company’s operations. For the reporting year of 2016, Ruby Canyon Engineering performed the third party greenhouse gas emissions inventory verification under The Climate Registry’s reporting program. Terra Global’s operations were made carbon neutral by the Company retiring offsets to the 2016 emissions using verified emission reductions certified under the Verified Carbon Standard.
