We spoke with Greg about what it actually took to turn large-scale reforestation in the U.S. into something banks, buyers, and long-term capital could support.
He walks through Chestnut’s path from early land acquisition, to signing long-term offtake agreements with Microsoft, to ultimately closing one of the most significant project finance deals the nature-based carbon market has seen so far.
The conversation gets into:
- why long-term offtake agreements matter so much for scaling nature projects
- what made these projects bankable to major lenders
- how quality, integrity, and cost discipline have to coexist
- the role registries and standards play in buyer confidence
- why carbon markets need more shared structure and fewer one-off designs
- how conservation can be both high-integrity and financially durable
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