Aims of the Project
The project of the GNF and its partner OroVerde, started in July of 2012, has as its goal the analysis of existing offers for their social and ecological sustainability. The joint study with the Rainforest Foundation will later be supplemented with an evaluation of financial assumptions and transparency of the offers. Initially, a market overview of the in Germany available forest investment will be created and criteria for their evaluation will be developed. Five offers will be looked at in depth through onsite viewing. In the case studies, value will be placed on a geographic and content related breadth. Besides three case studies in tropical forests, two additional studies located in the northern hemisphere, Eastern Europe and German were chosen. In a second step, the case studies were evaluated and summarized in an overview with collected information on other products. The project runs until July 2014 and is financed through funds from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN).