Reflecting on impact starts with listening. Kisaro Thomas Lombutwa, the Makame Savannah Project Manager, shares how his community helped test REFLECT – a new approach to understanding the lived experience of conservation. In Makame and for the Maasai, land isn’t just where we live – it’s our life. For years, carbon revenue has helped us protect it. At […]
The release of our 2024 Impact Report showcases the significant achievements and strategic advancements over the last year. The year was one of significant consolidation and planning, all aimed at strengthening our foundation and ensuring our long-term impact in protecting forests for communities, wildlife, and climate. Our operational forest conservation projects continued to deliver outstanding […]
Updated statement: Dutch Press Council finds Trouw’s coverage of Carbon Tanzania project to be one-sided and distorted Update (11 June 2025): On 4 June 2025, Raad voor de Journalistiek (RvdJ), the Dutch Press Council, concluded its review of a formal complaint filed by Carbon Tanzania regarding a 2024 article published by Trouw. It found that […]
By commissioning “REFLECT for Nature”, a social impact evaluation, Carbon Tanzania is pioneering an approach that enables project developers to deeply understand the lived experiences of local community partners and improve how carbon finance delivers on the ground. The REFLECT for Nature process, which prioritises listening intently to the lived experiences of the local community, […]
By Jo Anderson and Marc Baker We don’t deny that there’s a lot of jargon in the voluntary carbon market. To help you understand the complexities of carbon crediting, we sat down to explain some key elements of carbon credit supply. How does Carbon Tanzania know how many carbon credits it can sell? How is […]
2023 marked another record year of growth and impact for Carbon Tanzania. Our three operational, ground-breaking forest conservation projects delivered $6.9 million to some of the most remote communities in Tanzania. Alongside our current projects, we continue to expand our efforts through the development of new carbon assets that will increase the forest lands protected […]
Under the ancient baobab tree the celebration begins. The Hadza hunter-gatherers are joined by the District Commissioner of Mbulu, James Kheri, who is officiating the buying back of land that once belonged to the Hadza. Less than 1000 Hadza still live a traditional, semi nomadic life in their ancestral rangelands in the Yaeda Valley, moving […]
2022 was a year of growth and expansion for Carbon Tanzania, and one of change both within the organisation and across our operating environment. Our team expanded, we began work on our latest large landscape carbon endeavour, the Ruvuma Wilderness Project and completed the second annual verification for the Yaeda Eyasi Landscape Project. We also continued […]
By Marc Baker, and Jo Anderson, Founders, Carbon Tanzania We are sitting on the Chingole Ridge in southern Tanzania, discussing recent articles on carbon credits. About 100 metres away – and 80 metres lower – we can see a dense, green forest. Yet here it is gravely; a stunted, Miombo woodland. If you were to […]
Now that the dust has settled on COP27 in Egypt, many of us working in climate change are asking what was achieved, and many observers are asking “what is the climate COP really meant to achieve anyway”. To paraphrase Christiana Figueres in the most recent episode of the excellent climate change podcast “Outrage and Optimism”, COP is […]
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Director of Operations
David is a dedicated conservationist with both an excellent academic record and extensive field experience in designing and implementing practical conservation and agricultural project work. At Carbon Tanzania, he oversees the highly technical aspects of project operations, while also using his interpersonal and language skills to communicate the many and complex details of our projects to our partner communities and field collaborators.
Director of Finance
Alpha is a Certified Public Accountant with a degree in accountancy and finance. Alpha is responsible for overseeing all the finance and accounting systems both within the company and across our projects. Alpha’s work with the communities also ensures that they are able to plan the financial management and implement best practices in the allocation of the revenues from their successful natural resource protection activities.
Co-founder
Marc oversees project operations, often in the field as well as from the Arusha base, and leads the search to find and develop new areas where our approach can deliver lasting results. As a co-founder of Carbon Tanzania, maintaining a connection with the landscapes in which Carbon Tanzania works is critical to Marc.
Co-founder
After an established career as one of East Africa’s leading professional outdoor, trekking and wildlife guides, Jo co-founded Carbon Tanzania. Jo’s focus is to ensure business sustainability through financial management and sales, and to ensure that the company has the financial capacity to scale when opportunities arise.
