Equitable carbon finance · Malawi
Climate revenue,
back to the people holding the carbon.
GreenKwacha is building equitable carbon-finance infrastructure for Malawi — so the communities doing the climate work receive the revenue, the data, and the say.
Our Mission
What if the people growing the carbon also kept it?
Carbon finance was supposed to fund a just transition. Instead it became another extraction. We're rebuilding the model from the ground up — so the Malawian households, cooperatives, and stewards who hold the carbon also hold the revenue, the data, and the seat at the table.
GreenKwacha is what equitable carbon finance looks like when it's designed by people who live in the landscape.
From the ground
Before a single credit, we sit down with the people holding the carbon.
In May 2026 we ran our first community co-design in the Lower Shire — listening sessions and questionnaires with chiefs, district forestry offices, and farmers across Chikwawa and Nsanje. It's where the four principles below come from.
See how we work in the fieldHow we work
Four principles, not slogans.
Every dollar, every tonne, every decision routes back to communities — or the project doesn't ship.
Community-held carbon
Carbon rights stay with the people stewarding the land — not assigned to intermediaries.
Transparent revenue split
A published share goes directly to households and village funds. No black-box deductions.
Verifiable methodology
Open MRV, third-party validation, and audit trails published before issuance.
Local governance
Project decisions made by community committees, with technical support — not the other way around.
Did you know?
When you buy a carbon credit, less than one in ten dollars reaches the people growing or protecting the carbon.
So where does the rest go? And what would it look like if it didn't?
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Advocacy
Where does the other 90% go?
Brokers, validators, platforms, developer margin. We break down the carbon-finance dollar — and what it would take to invert it.
Projects
What does an equitable pilot actually look like?
Forest carbon, community mini-grids, agroforestry. Three pilot landscapes, one methodology — designed so communities hold the revenue and the data.
Team
Who's building this — and why?
A team across Lilongwe, Lusaka, the US, and Australia, building the climate-finance infrastructure that's been missing.
Help us build
We don't need millions. We need first believers.
The first pilots are funded by people, not platforms. If you believe carbon revenue belongs with the communities holding the carbon — back us.