Trees and cattle, side by side: a Brazil deal pays to regrow 8,700 hectares (21,500 acres) of degraded pasture

On degraded pastureland in Brazil's southeast, a different kind of ranching is being paid to take root: silvopasture, where trees grow alongside grazing cattle, shade the animals and pull carbon from the air. Google and McKinsey, acting through the Symbiosis Coalition, have agreed to buy 320,000 metric tons of carbon-removal credits over ten years from Working Trees, funding the restoration of 8,700 hectares (21,500 acres) of worn-out pasture on the edge of the Amazon and Cerrado — part of a wider 50,000-hectare project. The land is not fenced off from farming; it is farmed better, with the forest woven back through it.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: market force