April 2023

This spring has brought us a whole lot of opportunities to spread the word about climate tech and mangrove reforestation among business communities. We’re excited to share our recent project updates and invite you to have a chat about blue carbon at upcoming events. Read more below!?

Vlinder partners with Carbonmark and speaks at the launch event

Vlinder has become the launch partner of Carbonmark, the universal carbon marketplace with a wide selection of digital carbon credits. In the interest of the Mangrove DAO we have tokenized blue carbon credits issued by the mangrove reforestation project in Myanmar using the Toucan Bridge.

You can now purchase blue carbon credits on the Carbonmark marketplace.

Project

The project restores mangrove areas in the Northern part of Ayeyarwady Division of Myanmar. This Verra-certified effort is implemented on over 2200 ha of degraded land to create a healthy mangrove ecosystem and sequester over 3.6 million tons of CO2 during the next 20 years.

Launch event

The marketplace was launched at ON SET #3, an online event organized by KlimaDAO. Vlinder founder and co-CEO Sergey Ivliev presented Vlinder there and spoke about our mangrove reforestation projects and our road to them, Vlinder's approach to tokenization of forward carbon, and the digitized carbon credits provided for the Carbonmark launch.?

Listen to the recording of the event.

The next round of planting is started in Kenya

Our flagship mangrove reforestation project is in Kenya. We started planting last year and passed the validation audit by Verra-accredited Validation Verification Body in January. The project will revitalize 1500 hectares of severely degraded mangroves in Kwale, Kilifi and Tana River counties.

At the end of March, the long-awaited rainy season came and the team on the ground continued the planting in Kwale. The plan is to restore as much of the 220 ha available in the county as the weather permits. All the planting jobs are filled by the local community people, and the seedlings are purchased from the nurseries run by women’s community-based organizations.

Read our blog article to learn more about our work with the communities in Kenya.

Vlinder’s leader in Kenya represents the private sector in the county mangrove management committee

Isabella Masinde, the leader of Vlinder's mangrove project in Kenya, is nominated to the Kwale County Mangrove Management Committee to represent the private sector. The committee’s mandate is to ensure that the National Mangrove Management Plan is implemented. We’re excited to work with Isabella — she is a talented and caring leader. Congratulations!

Vlinder on the carbon industry maps

Industry maps are a great way of watching market trends. We love our colleagues’ different approaches to the carbon market overview, and we’re happy to be on their radars. Last month Vlinder appeared in the two industry overviews.?

The map of evolving carbon industry by JustCarbon, a carbon removal consultant, features Vlinder as a blue carbon project developer and provider of early funding for carbon projects. The overview showcases the companies paving the way towards a better, stronger, and more transparent market with innovative CO2 capture and removal solutions.

The second map is a classification of tokenized carbon credits that PARTICULA, an ESG-Token Data Platform, has come up with.?

We are in the Ocean Pitch Сhallenge Grand Finale

Vlinder is a finalist of the Ocean Pitch Сhallenge contest, an initiative co-organized by RespectOcean and Sustainable Ocean Alliance!

Selected among 136 applicants from 41 countries, we will be now preparing to present our solution at the Grand Finale on May 23.?Our co-founder Lena Mechenkova will represent Vlinder.

We’ll be extremely thankful if you support us by submitting your voice here.

Vlinder’s presentation at the Innovate 4 Nature

Our COO Robin Bartmann had a chance to present Vlinder at the Nature-Based Solutions event hosted by Innovate 4 Nature in Buonas, Switzerland. It was a great opportunity to showcase our work and the importance of nature-based solutions in addressing the urgent challenge of climate change.

We're grateful to the I4N team for inviting us to be part of this event and for their support of our mission.?

Vlinder at the Istanbul Fintech Week

Vlinder founder and co-CEO Sergey Ivliev spoke at the Istanbul Fintech Week on April 13. His presentation ‘Fintech for Environment’ provided a helicopter view of the digital carbon markets, a highly experimental and fast-evolving space with many lessons already learned. Check the slides for details.

In addition to this, Sergey participated in two panel discussions, one on DAOs and another on Tokenomics.

It's always great to see our team members sharing their expertise and contributing to the larger conversation in the fintech industry.

Vlinder at Blue Carbon Event in London

On the same day, on April 13 Vlinder co-founder Irina Fedorenko-Aula was a speaker at the Blue Carbon Event at Hogan Lovells in London. Along with Stéphane Van Haute from Friendship NGO,? Samantha Jane Howlett from NatureMetrics, and Dan Crockett from Blue Marine Foundation, Irina discussed the challenges and opportunities of the emerging blue carbon market.

Organized by Bright Tide, the event celebrates the launch of the Blue Carbon Accelerator Programme in collaboration with EY The Crown Estate and Hogan Lovells — and we are in their latest batch!

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Our focus for the next month will be to plant as much as we can in Kenya during this rainy season and launch planting in Senegal, widen our future mangrove project pipeline and conduct a few forward carbon tokenization pilots.

We’ll be happy to meet you at the upcoming Ocean Pitch Challenge (online) and Oceanovation Festival in Hague!

Thanks for staying in touch with us,

Team Vlinder