Go Forest
Go Forest offers accessible and transparent solutions to restore forests and promote biodiversity while creating social and economic impact for local communities.
Go Forest combines ecological expertise with rigorous monitoring, planting the right species in the right ecosystems to ensure long-term results. Services include tree planting, carbon credits, and maintenance monitoring with a layered monitoring system combining field visits, local expertise and satellite data. The company provides blockchain certificates, communication libraries, and optional impact dashboards for transparency.
Stated facts & numbers
- Go Forest has planted close to 600,000 trees in 17 countries, targeting 1 million by end of next year. (0:52:22, Ben's Mentors 2025-05-07)
- More than 650 companies work with Go Forest in its fifth year. (0:33:48, Ben's Mentors 2025-05-07)
- A tree at Go Forest costs between €3 and €9 depending on location, including 30 years of maintenance and monitoring. (0:52:52, Ben's Mentors 2025-05-07)
- Go Forest's team policy limits project visits to max three per year to account for flight emissions. (0:05:06, Ben's Mentors 2025-05-07)
- The team counts five people: 3.5 FTE on Go Forest, 1.5 on Go Ocean, with a new hire coming. (1:02:10, Ben's Mentors 2025-05-07)
- Go Forest was founded in September 2020 and has been on the market for 3 years, running reforestation projects in 15 countries. (0:02:07, Connexi 2023-08-14)
- Go Forest has planted nearly half a million trees; Sarah's original projection was 1 million by this point. (0:34:25, Connexi 2023-08-14)
- Go Forest started with roughly €40,000-50,000 in startup capital, partly via a participation from CO2 Logic. (0:17:22, Connexi 2023-08-14)