Carbon, held to the
standard of an
asset class.
Terra Verde works with landowners, conservancies, community trusts and corporates across Zimbabwe and Southern Africa to originate, measure and monetise carbon — and to meet net-zero commitments with science, not sentiment.
Landscape
Miombo woodland
Method
Field-verified MRV
Market
Voluntary & Article 6
At COP31 in Türkiye, Zimbabwe is presenting a plan for 1,000,000 cookstoves across 58 Rural District Councils, built on SI 48, with safe-water filters and 20% of revenues going to communities.
Policy · 6 min read
Read the dispatchWhat the current COP is actually deciding.
Digest updated 11 November 2026
Electricity at the centre
Türkiye's presidency has put a target on the table to raise electricity's share of global energy use — the “35 by 35” goal — alongside an Antalya pledge tying AI demand to clean power.
Zero waste and methane
Waste generation, methane and linear production models are a stated priority, with a push to halve waste and cut emissions that sit outside the power sector.
The implementation bridge
The presidency's “Climate Implementation Bridge” aims to turn national pledges into finance-ready project portfolios — the gap carbon project developers live in.
Zimbabwe on the pavilions
The National Clean Cooking Project — 1,000,000 stoves across 58 Rural District Councils — is being presented through SADC and Africa Pavilion sessions.
- Base
- Harare, Zimbabwe
- Geography
- Zimbabwe & Southern Africa
- Sectors
- Mining · Energy · Forestry · Agriculture · Water
- Disciplines
- Project development · MRV · Net-zero strategy · Markets
Three disciplines, one continuous line from soil to market.
Project development
Originate, de-risk and register high-integrity carbon projects on land that has been undervalued for generations — feasibility, baseline modelling, project design, validation and long-term monitoring.
Portfolio & asset management
Treat every tonne as a balance-sheet item: issuance, registry management, forward sales, buyer due diligence and benefit-sharing structures that hold up to scrutiny.
Market intelligence & advisory
Net-zero strategy, science-based targets, Scope 3 inventories and disclosure that survive investor and regulator review — plus market access when you are ready to transact.
Six service lines, built around one commodity.
Carbon project origination
REDD+, improved forest management, cookstove and nature-based projects — from feasibility and land tenure review to registration.
MRV & certification
Baselines, allometric modelling, remote sensing, field verification and registry submissions under Verra and Gold Standard.
Science-based targets
Target-setting aligned to SBTi, decarbonisation pathways and marginal abatement cost curves your board can defend.
Scope 3 & supply chains
Screening, supplier engagement, primary data collection and defensible emissions-factor selection.
ESG & climate disclosure
Zimbabwe and regional reporting, IFRS S2 and TCFD alignment, and investor-grade climate narratives.
Carbon markets & transactions
Buyer matching, offtake structuring, Article 6 readiness and portfolio due diligence.
Assignments on real land, with real counterparties.
Zimbabwe's forests are worth billions — but only if they are measured, protected and paid for correctly.
Miombo woodland stores carbon across millions of hectares held by communities and trusts that have never had the tools to value it. Terra Verde exists to close that gap: rigorous science on the land, market discipline in the deal, and benefit-sharing that the people who protect these landscapes can rely on.
Landholders
Communities, conservancies, trusts
Counterparties
Corporates, buyers, public bodies
Stratum 01 — Soil carbon
Measured before it is monetised.
Connect Water, a partner of Terra Verde
Connect Water Private Limited is a Zimbabwean company in water engineering, supply and sustainable infrastructure, also operating as Connect Water Group in South Africa. It unites reliable water services, clean energy and healthy natural systems, which pairs with our carbon and nature-capital work.
Their flagship Mosi oa Tunya Sustainable Communities Project is a national water, energy and nature initiative spanning all 60 Rural District Councils.
- 2015
- Registered in Zimbabwe
- 60
- Rural District Councils in flagship programme
- 4
- Connected delivery pillars
- 01
Water & sanitation
Source assessment, treatment, storage, wastewater collection and treatment.
- 02
Reticulation & services
Distribution networks, metering, monthly billing and demand management.
- 03
Clean energy
Flamingo clean-cooking stoves, local manufacture and after-sales support.
- 04
Nature capital
Catchment restoration, watershed protection, carbon screening and monitoring.
Harare, Zimbabwe · Johannesburg, South Africa
The intelligence desk.
Initiate the
diagnostic.
Your sector, your target net-zero year and one paragraph of context is enough for us to come back with a point of view — not a brochure.
Open the enquiry form- Response
- Every enquiry is read by a consultant, not a queue.
- Scoping
- A first conversation to test fit before any fee is discussed.
- Confidentiality
- Land, tenure and commercial detail handled discreetly.