碳补偿公司SilviaTerra的联合创始人扎克·帕里萨（Zack Parisa）和马克斯·诺瓦（Max Nova）在过去十年里一直致力于一种方法，使获得创收碳补偿的途径民主化。
随着一些世界上最大的公司承诺为其业务脱碳，从而使林业信贷成为一项规模庞大、蓬勃发展的业务，这两位创始人用10年的时间致力于建设的各种技术只会变得更有价值。
这就是为什么他们的公司，已经是一个盈利的企业，已经筹集了440万美元的外部资金，由联合广场风险投资公司（Union Square Ventures）和第一版风险投资公司（Version One Ventures）牵头，还有Salesforce创始人和“一万亿棵树”计划的推动力马克·贝尼奥夫（Marc Benioff）。
“解决气候危机的关键是改变所谓碳循环的平衡。目前，我们每年向大气中增加大约50亿吨的碳。由于大气中的碳是一种温室气体，这就增加了保留下来的能量，而不是辐射回太空，从而导致地球升温，”联合广场风险投资公司（Union Square Ventures）执行合伙人阿尔伯特·温格（Albert Wenger）在博客中写道。“出现这种下降的方式有很多种，我们将在未来几周内写下不同的方法（例如直接捕获空气和在海洋中种植海带）。我们今天非常了解并能立即采取行动的一个方法是森林。当今世界的森林每年从大气中吸收略多于十亿吨的二氧化碳，并将其转化为生物量。我们需要停止砍伐和烧毁现有森林（包括防止大规模森林火灾），我们必须开始种植更多的新树木。如果我们这样做，每年森林的总潜力约为4至5亿吨（有些估计高达9亿吨）。”
对这两位创始人来说，这项新的资金是帕里萨在阿拉巴马州北部森林长大的漫长旅程中的最新一步。
帕里萨在密西西比州立大学学习林业之后，在耶鲁大学读研究生，在那里他遇到了路易斯维尔，肯塔基州的本地人马克斯诺瓦，一个计算机科学的学生，他与帕里萨一起成立了一家公司，将成为西尔维泰拉。
原文：Zack Parisa and Max Nova, the co-founders of the carbon offset company SilviaTerra, have spent the last decade working on a way to democratize access to revenue-generating carbon offsets.
As forestry credits become a big, booming business on the back of multibillion-dollar commitments from some of the world’s biggest companies to decarbonize their businesses, the kinds of technologies that the two founders have dedicated 10 years of their lives to building are only going to become more valuable.
That’s why their company, already a profitable business, has raised $4.4 million in outside funding led by Union Square Ventures and Version One Ventures, along with Salesforce founder and the driving force between the One Trillion Trees Initiative, Marc Benioff .
“Key to addressing the climate crisis is changing the balance in the so-called carbon cycle. At present, every year we are adding roughly 5 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere. Since atmospheric carbon acts as a greenhouse gas this increases the energy that’s retained rather than radiated back into space which causes the earth to heat up,” writes Union Square Ventures managing partner Albert Wenger in a blog post. “There will be many ways such drawdown occurs and we will write about different approaches in the coming weeks (such as direct air capture and growing kelp in the oceans). One way that we understand well today and can act upon immediately are forests. The world’s forests today absorb a bit more than one gigatons of CO2 per year out of the atmosphere and turn it into biomass. We need to stop cutting and burning down existing forests (including preventing large scale forest fires) and we have to start planting more new trees. If we do that, the total potential for forests is around 4 to 5 gigatons per year (with some estimates as high as 9 gigatons).”
For the two founders, the new funding is the latest step in a long journey that began in the woods of Northern Alabama, where Parisa grew up.
After attending Mississippi State for forestry, Parisa went to graduate school at Yale, where he met Louisville, Kentucky native Max Nova, a computer science student who joined with Parisa to set up the company that would become SilviaTerra.
