Equitable carbon finance · Nigeria
Climate revenue,
back to the people holding the carbon.
GreenNaira is building equitable carbon-finance infrastructure for Nigeria — 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. In Nigeria it too often became another extraction — deals signed over communities' heads, revenue captured offshore, from the Niger Delta to the Cross River rainforest. We're rebuilding the model from the ground up — so the Nigerian households, cooperatives, and stewards who hold the carbon also hold the revenue, the data, and the seat at the table.
GreenNaira is what equitable carbon finance looks like when it's designed by people who live in the landscape.
How 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 or offshore developers.
Transparent revenue split
A published share goes directly to households and community-development funds. No black-box deductions.
Verifiable methodology
Open MRV, third-party validation, and audit trails published before issuance.
Local governance
Project decisions made with community development associations and traditional councils — with technical support, not over the top of them.
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 for Nigeria.
Projects
What does an equitable pilot actually look like?
Niger Delta mangrove restoration, Cross River rainforest protection, northern agroforestry. Three pilot landscapes, one methodology — designed so communities hold the revenue and the data.
Team
Who's building this — and why?
A founding team across Lagos, the US, and the UK, building the climate-finance infrastructure Nigeria has 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.