Is nature in your strategy?

We facilitate your businesses journey towards climate and nature positive impacts.

Restore Nature

Business Partner Certifications

Enhance your competitive advantage by integrating climate and nature-positive impacts into your business model. The Forest Friends Certification provides a comprehensive solution to help you advance toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while unlocking new opportunities in the green economy. Learn how you business can take part.

The Forest Friends Certification can help your business add value to your brand and innovate in your customers experience through climate and nature positive services.

Kick off your partnership and certification with Forest Friends by launching a restoration initiative alongside your new product, service, or campaign, or during notable events like Earth Month or World Environment Day.

Monitor your businesses decarbonization progress and report with transparency through our certification process and technical tools, effectively accelerating your pathway to net-zero.

Sustainability is a dynamic and continuous process for businesses seeking to make lasting, climate and nature positive impacts.

CERTIFICATIONS

Your Business Journey Towards Success

CLIMATE & NATURE POSITIVE

Forest Friends offers a comprehensive five stage climate and nature positive certification framework applicable across any sector.

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Exceed Your Nature Strategy

Whether you’re just beginning to explore climate and nature positive initiatives or looking to step up your strategy, Forest Friends has the perfect solution for you. From small-scale restoration projects to comprehensive, advanced strategies, each certification package offers a range of benefits.

Forest Friends Participant Certified
Participant
Businesses or organizations that engage in ecosystem restoration through small-scale initiatives.
Forest Friends Partner Certified
Partner
Businesses or organizations deeply committed to long-term ecosystem restoration.
Forest Friends Accelerator Certified
Accelerator
Businesses or organizations dedicated to accelerating ecosystem restoration.

Our Ecosystem Restoration Certifications help your business lead the industry in nature-positive outcomes and contribute meaningfully toward the global restoration target (Target 2) of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework; which consists of placing 30% of degraded land and water ecosystems under effective restoration by 2030. 

Forest Friends certifies your organization based on its long-term commitments to our wide range of ecosystem restoration projects guided by the United Nations Principles for Restoration (2021-2030) and Green Initiative’s world-class reporting standards.

Our certifications highlights your businesses commitment to integrating nature into value chains and accelerating nature restoration by fostering large-scale, community-driven environmental action that supports biodiversity and climate resilience. Our certification offers three tiers: 

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PARTNER
ACCELERATOR
Certification and Seal
Trees
up to 500
up to 1,500
up to 5,000
or more
Reporting and transparency platform
Gift trees to stakeholders
Media communication kit
Opportunity to visit restoration site
Access to global events and webinars
Measurement of greenhouse gas emissions
Emission reduction strategy
Access to certified emission reductions (CERs)

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Businesses certified by Forest Friends accelerate:

RESTORATION

Increasing connectivity between biodiversity hotspots or, on a larger scale, revitalizing lost ecosystem functions.

PROVISION

Of food and shelter for wildlife, strengthening local ecosystems by helping the recovery of keystone fauna species.

COMMITMENT

With local communities providing seasonal employment or supporting local tree nurseries.

CONNECTION

Among organizations seeking to increase their positive impacts on nature or reduce their dependence on natural capital.

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Whether it’s environmental, social, or economic change, any contribution your business makes helps achieve global Sustainable Development Goals.

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Why choose Forest Friends?

Connecting Organizations With Nature Positive Impacts

Forest Friends is dedicated to forging meaningful connections between organizations and nature, creating positive impacts that resonate with both individuals and businesses.

Since 2021, we’ve partnered with companies across various industries to craft custom-tailored solutions that restore and protect the environment.

Our commitment goes beyond mere collaboration; we work hand-in-hand with our partners to design impactful strategies that align with their goals, ensuring that every action taken contributes to a healthier, more sustainable world.

  • 79 organizations
  • 36 different countries/states

All-Inclusive Nature Positive Impacts

Forest Friends offers integral solutions that connect your organization with nature-positive impacts guided by the United Nations’ Ten Principles for Restoration (2021-2030). These solutions are designed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, much like the 1.5°C goal for climate action, but for nature—restoring ecosystems by 2030 and ensuring full recovery by 2050.

Forest Friends offers verifiable, socially inclusive restoration projects in global biodiversity hotspots allowing your organization or business to take real action and directly address key SDGs such as Life on Land (SDG 15) and Climate Action (SDG 13).

Connect Your Value Chain With Nature

Forest Friends generates significant value for businesses and organizations by providing a clear path to social and environmental responsibility. By connecting your company with nature-positive initiatives, Forest Friends helps you meet and exceed your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, while actively contributing to the global effort to halt biodiversity loss and restore degraded ecosystems. With a credible platform for communicating your environmental impact to stakeholders, investors, and customers, Forest Friends strengthens your market position, builds trust, and fosters long-term loyalty. 

Embedding nature positive impacts into your business model goes beyond just compliance with ESG goals—it communicates that your organization actively contributes to a better future. This makes your products more appealing, as they become associated with a greater cause, which boosts brand loyalty and differentiation in the marketplace. This approach can also open doors to fresh opportunities for growth, as government authorities are more likely to grant access, approvals, and licenses to organizations committed to positive social and environmental outcomes.

Science-Driven Ecosystem Restoration

Forest Friends employs a science-based approach to restoration that ensures every project delivers meaningful, measurable impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem recovery. By focusing on biodiversity hotspots recognized by international conservation organizations, we partner with key local groups to restore areas affected by habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss, or unsustainable land use. Using a combination of advanced remote sensing and on-site verification, we carefully select regions where restoration will have the greatest impact.

Our reforestation efforts go beyond simple tree planting. We restore ecosystems by planting a diverse range of native species—typically between 15 and 41—that are specifically chosen for their ecological benefits, growth potential, and ability to thrive in their environment. This variety enriches local biodiversity, creating a resilient ecosystem that supports long-term recovery.

To ensure the success of these restoration efforts, Forest Friends monitors key ecological indicators, such as tree health, the presence of invasive species, and overall canopy growth. This ongoing assessment allows us to adapt and improve as needed, ensuring that our restoration projects are both effective and sustainable. We also provide transparent reporting on tree planting progress, carbon capture potential, and the broader environmental benefits your organization contributes to.

Pioneering Industry Engagement

Forest Friends actively engages industries with the best practices for nature and climate positive action by hosting international webinars on emerging environmentally conscious topics, such as regenerative tourism. These webinars offer businesses the opportunity to explore how they can align their operations with the growing demand for sustainability while contributing to the global effort to restore nature. Forest Friends is pioneering solutions that integrate both climate and nature-positive actions into business models. This ensures that organizations not only meet their sustainability goals but also future-proof their operations by embedding purpose-driven, nature-positive strategies that benefit both their business and the planet.

Best Practices in Ecosystem Restoration and Sustainable Business Alignment

Forest Friends stands at the forefront of global environmental leadership by adhering to international best practices in ecosystem restoration and sustainability. As a proud actor in the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), we are committed to accelerating restoration projects, shifting behaviors, building capacity, and fostering a culture of restoration and accountability. Since 2022, our involvement with the Glasgow Declaration Capacity Building Working Group underscores our dedication to emphasizing the importance of conserving and restoring ecosystems, especially in high-traffic tourism destinations. As an early adopter of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) recommendations, Forest Friends has the objective to help businesses and organizations meet global corporate reporting requirements and align with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. By partnering with Forest Friends, your organization taps into a network that embodies these best practices, leading the way in responsible environmental stewardship and demonstrating your commitment to global sustainability goals.

Restoration Projects across Central and South America

Forest Friends offers a diverse portfolio of ecosystem restoration projects across Central and South America, each designed to address specific environmental challenges. From building climate resilience and mitigating desertification to supporting wildlife habitats, our projects span a range of ecosystems and are tailored to achieve targeted impacts. With a wide selection of initiatives, our clients can choose the projects that best align with their sustainability goals, ensuring every effort contributes to meaningful change for the planet. Why choose Forest Friends

Learn How Businesses in Different Sectors are Going Nature Positive

CEPA Foundation is a non-profit organization that offers educational study abroad programs in Europe. Since 2023, CEPA is committed to planting a tree and supporting climate prophecies that avoid GHG emissions equivalent to half a ton of CO2 for each student who is enrolled in an academic program abroad. CEPA not only contributes to providing students with a well-rounded and diverse education but also to building an educational experience that is aligned with today’s global climate concerns.

CEPA Education
Nature Positive - Education - Green Initiative - Forest Friends

Tulu Travel & SweTours are for-profit Swedish travel agencies that believe in environmentally and socially responsible tourism. They operate tours in Costa Rica, where they plant a tree and offset one ton of co2 for each customer that travels for two weeks. These agencies provide customers with the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the touristic destination they visit.

Tulu Travel & SweTours Tourism
Nature Positive - Tourism - Green Initiative - Forest Friends

Corporations have financed an ecological restoration project in the buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve within the scope of the film Miracles: An Extraordinary Bear, which seeks to raise public awareness about the negative effects of human activities on tropical forests and wildlife. Their actions mark the beginning of their journey towards more sustainable and nature-positive operations, aligned with the global goal of a full recovery by 2050.

MAPFRE, Luz del Sur, MSC Insurance, Electric Power Supply, Logistics
Nature Positive - MULTI-INDUSTRY - Green Initiative - Forest Friends

WorldXChange Is a global currency exchange house focused on facilitating timely, secure, and competitive client currency exchanges while having positive impacts both on climate and the environment. WorldXChange has a long-term commitment to the plantation of native trees in the buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve and is actively measuring and compensating their emission footprint.

WorldXChange Finance
Nature Positive - finance- Green Initiative - Forest Friends

Ready, Get Set, Go

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores that achieving net zero emissions will require deploying carbon dioxide removal strategies to counterbalance the hard-to-abate residual emissions. This step is unavoidable, but it also presents an opportunity for businesses to become leaders in the transition to a low-carbon and high-biodiversity future.

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