Today, through the Symbiosis Coalition, we’re announcing a long-term agreement with Thryve.Earth for 260,000 tons of carbon removal from their agroforestry project in Sulawesi, Indonesia. This marks the first agroforestry project included within Google’s carbon removal program.
Thryve’s approach restores heavily degraded land by replacing fire-prone, invasive grasses with a resilient, multi-layered farming system. By blending an upper canopy of sugar palm and timber trees, a mid-layer of fruit crops like avocado and coffee, and ground-level annual crops such as chili and corn, the project both removes carbon and benefits local farmers, all while simultaneously replenishing the soil and increasing local biodiversity.
Together with Symbiosis, we’re continuing to catalyze the highest-scale opportunities to restore natural ecosystems worldwide. It’s one element of our broader climate solutions portfolio, which also includes other breakthrough carbon removal projects and efforts to eliminate superpollutants.
