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ROOFT

Connecting Communities, Forests, and Investments

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From 2001 to 2021, there was a total of 437Mha of tree cover loss globally, equivalent to a 11% decrease in tree cover since 2000 and 174Gt of CO₂ emissions.

Global Forest Watch

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Social Forestry as a win–win–win endeavor for sustainable forest management, climate change mitigation and robust entrepreneurial livelihoods. 

Wong et al. 2020

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Social forestry is underinvested!!!

  • Unclear reforestation and afforestation target
  • No standard monitoring in place
  • Limited access to financial sector
  • Difficult access to Green Carbon and Blue Carbon investment

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USD 4-6 trillion a year

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ROOFT – Connecting Communities, Forests, and Investments

  • Crowdfunding platform
  • Toolbox to support community forests using standardize scientific protocols, cloud computing, and machine learning
  • Economic valuation to support investments

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Business Model

There is an opportunity for success

Free

For Special Need Communities

Premium

1 – 10% of platform fee for each successful investment

Project integration

Integrate with conservation projects

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Capacity Building

Training and Certification

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Landsat

Sentinel

Forest Detection

Forest Health Indices

ROOFT

Recommendation

Communities

Investments

Monitoring

Capacity building

Quality control

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For Community

  • Prioritize reforestation and afforestation
  • Plan and calculate required investments

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For Community

  • Communicate with investors

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For Investors

  • Track investment status
  • Select investments based on preferences

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Monitoring and evaluation

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Team

Safran Yusri

GIS and Remote Sensing

Bayangmbe Mounmo

Software developer

Nikhil Bollineni

Data Analytic