Zurich-based Tivano has received a $606,100 grant from the Swiss REPIC initiative to expand its carbon removal and landscape restoration work in Namibia. The company targets bush encroachment, a major ecological problem in the region, and turns the removed biomass into carbon credits while restoring rangeland. The grant is small but meaningful for proving the project model. The key details to watch are the carbon accounting methodology, the registry used for issuance, and whether the credits can hold up against additionality and permanence requirements. If the pilot works, this could become a repeatable model for dryland restoration projects elsewhere in southern Africa.
