Climate change refers to significant, long-term changes in the global climate — including changes in temperature, precipitation, and wind patterns over decades or longer.

It's primarily caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere, resulting from human activities like burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), deforestation, and industrial processes.

These are gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, helping to warm the Earth. The main greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), nitrous oxide (N₂O), and fluorinated gases.

It leads to rising global temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, more extreme weather events (like hurricanes and droughts), and changes in wildlife habitats and migration patterns.

Global warming is the ongoing increase in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system. It's a major aspect of climate change, largely driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases.

While we can't completely stop climate change, we can mitigate its effects by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, transitioning to renewable energy, conserving energy, and protecting and restoring forests.

Individuals can help by reducing their carbon footprint: using energy-efficient appliances, reducing waste, recycling, using public transport or carpooling, and supporting environmentally friendly policies and products. You can also measure your footprint and offset what you can't yet reduce — which is exactly what KyoGreen helps you do.

It's an international treaty adopted in 2015 to address climate change. Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2°C — preferably 1.5°C — compared to pre-industrial levels.

While the Earth's climate has always changed due to natural causes, the current changes are overwhelmingly driven by human activity, especially since the Industrial Revolution.

Many tree programmes measure success by the number of trees planted. We measure success by the number of trees that survive, mature, and continue delivering environmental and social benefits. Every KyoGreen project is designed around long-term stewardship, measurable impact, and transparent reporting — creating living ecosystems rather than short-term planting campaigns.

Kyoto Network develops climate projects that combine ecosystem restoration, sustainable agriculture, carbon finance, and community development into a single long-term model. Rather than relying on one source of funding, this project generates multiple forms of value — ecosystem restoration, sustainable gum arabic production, internationally recognised certification, and high-integrity carbon credits. This diversified approach supports long-term financial sustainability while maximising environmental and social impact.

Carbon offsetting is a way to compensate for your emissions by funding an equivalent amount of carbon savings elsewhere. This typically involves investing in projects that reduce or remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Your carbon footprint is calculated from the greenhouse gases produced by your activities — energy use, travel, and other lifestyle or business operations. Our tools use standard conversion factors to estimate the total emissions from these activities.

While offsetting can significantly reduce your net carbon footprint, it's best used alongside efforts to directly reduce your emissions. Complete neutrality is challenging to achieve and maintain, but offsetting is a valuable step towards it.

Consider projects that are verifiable, have a proven track record, and align with your values. Look for projects certified by reputable standards like the Verified Carbon Standard or Gold Standard, ideally with additional social or environmental benefits.

Yes — but it's important to choose projects that are third-party verified and certified to ensure they deliver the promised emission reductions. Reputable certification standards ensure projects are monitored and audited regularly.

We recommend recalculating your carbon footprint annually, or whenever there are significant changes in your lifestyle or business operations. Regular reassessment keeps your offsetting strategy aligned with your actual emissions.

Many offset projects provide co-benefits such as biodiversity conservation, community development, improved air and water quality, and support for renewable energy and sustainable practices.

Carbon offsetting is for everyone — individuals, businesses, and organisations. Anyone interested in taking responsibility for their environmental impact can participate.

Look for transparency in how funds are used, and seek out projects with regular impact reporting. Projects certified by established standards provide additional assurance of their effectiveness.

Yes. Carbon offsetting plays a crucial role in the broader strategy to combat climate change. By supporting projects that reduce or remove carbon emissions, offsetting contributes to global efforts to stabilise greenhouse gas levels.

Carbon credits are permits representing a set amount of carbon dioxide reduced or removed from the atmosphere. They're used to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by enabling the trading and offsetting of emissions.

Yes. Our projects are developed with the intention of meeting internationally recognised standards, including Verra VM0047 (Agroforestry) and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. These frameworks require rigorous monitoring, reporting, and independent verification, ensuring environmental outcomes are measurable and transparent.

Sudan produces around 80% of the world's gum arabic and is home to the Great Gum Belt — one of the world's most important ecosystems for Acacia Senegal and Acacia Seyal. These native trees play a vital role in combating desertification, restoring degraded landscapes, supporting biodiversity, and providing sustainable livelihoods through responsibly harvested gum arabic. Our project is about restoring one of the world's most significant dryland ecosystems — not simply planting trees.

Our project is located in Gedaref State in eastern Sudan, geographically separate from the country's principal conflict zones. We only undertake restoration where implementation is practical and appropriate, working alongside long-established local partners, landowners, and communities with decades of experience managing these landscapes. Project delivery is continually assessed to ensure activities can be carried out responsibly.

No. Many restoration projects focus on planting trees; KyoGreen focuses on growing forests. Every tree we fund is protected, monitored, and managed throughout its establishment period to maximise long-term survival and environmental impact. Our objective is not simply to count trees planted, but to restore functioning ecosystems that keep delivering environmental, social, and economic value for decades.

Acacia Senegal and Acacia Seyal typically require around four years to become fully established, and those first few years are the most critical for survival. Rather than planting a tree and moving on, KyoGreen funds five years of protection, management, and monitoring to give every tree the greatest possible chance of reaching maturity. Many large-scale planting initiatives suffer low survival rates because long-term stewardship isn't funded — our programme is designed to deliver survival rates in excess of 95% through continuous management and local oversight.

This project goes beyond restoring trees. It follows an agroforestry approach, integrating native Acacia trees with sustainable land management and local agricultural activities. This creates multiple long-term benefits: restoring degraded landscapes, improving soil health, supporting biodiversity, producing sustainable gum arabic, creating long-term income for local communities, and strengthening climate resilience. Healthy communities help protect healthy forests.

Transparency is central to everything we do. Depending on your subscription, subscribers receive a digital certificate, geofence data, project photography, regular impact updates, and annual reporting. As the project develops, monitoring will be strengthened through digital MRV systems, satellite monitoring, and field verification to demonstrate measurable environmental impact.

Yes. Alongside carbon project development, the project is being developed with ISCC certification to provide internationally recognised supply-chain assurance for sustainably produced gum arabic. This adds a further layer of transparency while supporting responsible sourcing for global buyers.

The project is developed by Kyoto Network in partnership with Mahgoub and Sons Group and experienced local organisations, landowners, and community stakeholders who understand the region and have generations of experience managing these landscapes. By combining local expertise with international climate finance and digital monitoring technologies, we deliver restoration that is both environmentally effective and economically sustainable.

Your subscription supports the complete restoration process — not just the planting day. That includes nursery development, land preparation, planting, five years of protection and management, community engagement, monitoring and reporting, biodiversity restoration, and digital verification.

Depending on your subscription tier, you receive a digital certificate, geofence data for your trees, project photography, regular impact updates, and annual reporting.

A subscription is recurring support for ongoing restoration — billed monthly or annually — that keeps funding protection, management, and monitoring over time. A one-time package is a single purchase (for example a set number of trees or a fixed carbon offset) with no recurring billing. Both are available for individuals and businesses, and both generate a certificate once payment completes.

Yes. You can upgrade or downgrade to a different plan while your subscription is active, and you can cancel at any time from your account — we'll ask you to choose a short reason so we can keep improving. Businesses manage their subscription the same way from their organisation settings.

We accept card payments securely through Stripe. Your payment details are handled by Stripe's PCI-compliant checkout and are never stored on our servers. We're working to add more payment options over time.

Your dashboard is your personal impact hub. It shows your profile and badges, your weekly Green Score, and an impact breakdown of the CO₂ you've avoided by category. You can see your ranking within your organisation, join campaigns and challenges, and keep a weekly logging streak going — all in one place.

Log your daily activities using the calculator and KyoGreen turns them into a weekly Green Score you can compare week to week. Your History page keeps every daily log — with the CO₂ total, a breakdown by category (transport, food, home, and more), and the number of trees funded — so you can see your progress build up over time.

A certificate is generated automatically once a payment completes — whether it's a one-time package or a subscription. You'll see it in the confirmation step after payment, where you can download it. Each certificate shows your name, the amount offset, and the trees funded, and you can choose a green or white design.

Organisations get a dedicated dashboard to measure and drive collective impact. You can see total active members and engagement, track the CO₂ your team has avoided and the trees you've funded, and motivate participation with member, team, and inter-organisation leaderboards. You can also organise your people into units and subgroups, and run campaigns and challenges from one place.

Admins can invite people by email as either an admin or a member, and add many at once with a bulk invite. Pending invitations show their status and can be resent before they expire. You can update someone’s role, suspend a member, or remove them entirely at any time.

Yes. Organisations can create branded campaigns tied to real programmes — such as tree planting or carbon offsetting — and share them to raise funds. Each campaign tracks funds raised, purchases and conversion rates, recent supporters, and marketing attribution (UTMs), and can run standalone or as a sub-campaign under a larger one.