Google and McKinsey have signed long-term agreements to buy 320,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits from Working Trees' silvopasture project in Brazil. The project integrates trees into cattle pastures across the southeastern Amazon and Cerrado, restoring 8,700 hectares within a 50,000-hectare area. It is part of the Symbiosis Coalition, which also includes Microsoft, Meta, and Salesforce. Silvopasture keeps ranching active while sequestering carbon, and the deal is one of the first large-scale attempts to fund it with carbon finance. Working Trees plants commercial timber and native species, aiming to give ranchers future timber revenue after credit income fades. Critics note that offsets can let polluters avoid cutting emissions, so the key question is whether the carbon accounting holds up over time.
