Toute l'actualitéAs climate disruption intensifies and regulatory and scientific frameworks continue to evolve, companies are now faced with heightened expectations regarding the maturity and robustness of their climate strategies. The unequivocal priority remains the rapid and deep reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across the entire value chain. Yet, however essential this transformation may be, it cannot deliver immediate or comprehensive results. In the interim, a significant share of emissions remains unavoidable. It is within this space that voluntary climate contribution takes shape—more specifically, the support of climate projects beyond a company’s direct operational perimeter.
When Climate Risks Become Economic Risks
The increasing frequency and severity of climate-related events, the growing scarcity of natural resources, the loss of essential ecosystem services, and the weakening of agricultural and water systems constitute systemic shocks capable of eroding productivity, disrupting supply chains, and weighing heavily on global economic growth in the decades ahead.
Recent scientific reviews and institutional analyses converge on a shared conclusion: risks linked to climate inaction and accelerating biodiversity loss now represent a major source of macroeconomic instability. Central banks have emphasized that environmental crises can disrupt traditional economic cycles and undermine financial stability and growth. National economic simulations published by INSEE suggest that, absent a planned transition, climate inaction could cost several points of GDP in certain economies by the end of the century. Likewise, international organizations such as the OECD identify biodiversity loss and climate change as long-term threats to economic activity, societal well-being, and financial stability. The challenge therefore lies in the ability of economic actors to significantly increase their positive contributions—both direct and indirect—by channeling capital at the scale required toward solutions capable of restoring ecosystems and strengthening territorial resilience.
From Compensation to Structured Climate Contribution
Offsetting has long been understood as a corrective mechanism, deployed after the fact to “neutralize” residual emissions. This interpretation—now largely outdated—no longer reflects scientific realities nor the growing expectations around climate credibility. Driven by evolving scientific standards and increasing societal scrutiny, offsetting is progressively being reframed as a more structured form of climate contribution, fully complementary to science-aligned decarbonization pathways and consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
In this context, financing climate projects—without necessarily relying on carbon credits—constitutes a critical lever for territorial transformation, delivering climate, ecological, and socio-economic benefits.
Nature-Based Solutions as a Cornerstone of Climate Contribution
Within the spectrum of carbon contribution options, nature-based solutions occupy a strategic position. Forest restoration, afforestation, and agroforestry projects serve a dual imperative: contributing to climate change mitigation while enhancing the resilience of ecosystems and the communities that depend upon them.
Beyond carbon sequestration, such projects generate decisive co-benefits for biodiversity, soil health, hydrological regulation, and local socio-economic development. At a time when investment in nature must triple by 2030 to meet global climate targets, directing private financial flows toward these solutions represents a powerful lever for scaling impact.
What Companies Stand to Gain
For companies, this approach offers several structural advantages at the intersection of climate performance, economic resilience, and long-term value creation.
Contributing to Collective Mitigation Efforts
By supporting climate projects beyond their value chain—under the logic of BVCM (Beyond Value Chain Mitigation)—companies can contribute meaningfully to global mitigation efforts through quantifiable and verifiable outcomes, independently of the often lengthy transformation cycles of operations and supply chains.
Strengthening Resilience to Climate and Economic Risks
By channeling capital toward ecosystem restoration and protection projects, companies help mitigate growing macroeconomic risks linked to climate disruption and biodiversity erosion—risks that directly threaten market stability, supply chain continuity, and long-term value creation.
Enhancing the Credibility and Robustness of Climate Commitments
Supporting high-integrity projects—grounded in rigorous methodologies and independent verification mechanisms—enables companies to demonstrate a structured and demanding approach to climate contribution, aligned with stakeholder expectations and international reference frameworks.
Embedding Climate Strategy Within a Long-Term Value Creation Logic
By integrating climate contribution into a long-term investment perspective rather than a purely compensatory logic, companies reinforce the alignment between climate performance and positive impacts on biodiversity, water resources, and local communities—responding to growing expectations around integrated climate-nature strategies and extra-financial performance.
>> Taken together, these levers make climate contribution beyond the value chain a genuine strategic choice for companies. By voluntarily directing capital toward ecosystem restoration projects, businesses participate in financing essential global commons—climate stability, territorial resilience, and the preservation of ecosystem services—upon which both economies and societies ultimately depend. In a context where public financing remains insufficient relative to the scale of the challenge, private sector engagement becomes a decisive accelerator of the transition toward pathways compatible with planetary boundaries. Climate contribution thus extends beyond corporate interest alone and becomes part of a broader public interest dynamic.
Reforest’Action Added Value: Enabling High-Integrity Carbon Contribution
Our approach to offsetting is grounded in a strong conviction: only a rigorous and demanding climate contribution, built on multifunctional projects, can generate durable impacts commensurate with today’s climate and environmental challenges.
Fifteen Years of Experience in Ecosystem Restoration
For over fifteen years, we have developed ecosystem restoration projects across France, Europe, and tropical regions. These initiatives encompass a wide range of typologies—afforestation and reforestation, agroforestry, hedgerow restoration, mangrove rehabilitation—and are designed within a multifunctional framework that simultaneously addresses climate mitigation, biodiversity enhancement, soil-water system dynamics, and local socio-economic development.
Robust Methodologies Ensuring Project Integrity
The robustness of this approach rests first and foremost on the quality of the methodologies deployed. Carbon quantification relies on recognized standards and independent certification or verification processes—both in France and internationally—in compliance with Voluntary Carbon Market criteria (additionality, measurability, permanence, uniqueness). This methodological rigor provides companies with strong guarantees regarding traceability, measurability, and the long-term durability of impacts generated.
Supporting Both Short- and Long-Term Contribution Horizons
Reforest’Action further distinguishes itself through its ability to support companies across all contribution horizons:
- In the short term, by providing access to certified or independently verified (agro)forestry projects;
- In the longer term, by structuring portfolios of carbon sequestration projects currently under development, enabling companies to anticipate future net-zero requirements and secure access to high-integrity nature-based solutions.
Territorial Anchoring as a Guarantee of Project Durability
Territorial anchoring is a central pillar of our approach. Projects are designed and implemented in direct collaboration with local partners, within territories where ecological, social, and economic dynamics are carefully integrated. The presence of locally based Project Officers and governance frameworks involving stakeholders ensures rigorous operational execution and value-sharing rooted within communities.
By combining sectoral expertise, methodological rigor, and strong field presence, Reforest’Action supports companies in building climate contribution strategies aligned with the most demanding scientific frameworks—strategies capable of delivering lasting territorial impact beyond carbon sequestration alone.
In light of the scale of climate and ecological challenges, transforming value chains—while essential—cannot suffice on its own. Supporting climate projects beyond one’s operational perimeter has become a critical complementary lever, enabling companies to combine immediate impact, long-term risk management, and credibility of commitments. When grounded in high-integrity projects, anchored in territories and built on robust methodologies, climate contribution becomes a genuine tool of transformation—serving ecosystem resilience and the transition toward regenerative economic models.
Are you a company seeking to act for the climate beyond your value chain by supporting high-quality, certified or independently verified (agro)forestry projects? Contact one of our experts to explore how we can support your strategy.