Amazon Windshields, our long-running agroforestry project in the Bolivian Amazon, is upgrading how new planting sites get certified. Going forward, new sites will be certified under Tree-Nation's Foundation pathway, making Amazon Windshields the second project in our portfolio, after Restoring Biodiversity Highways in Chile, to carry a Foundation Certification.
The change follows a months-long assessment by our Environment team, which confirmed Foundation is the right pathway for the project going forward.
Why Foundation
Foundation Certification is built for structured, repeatable planting systems, like the straight tree hedges that make up a windshield, where aboveground carbon can be measured directly from satellite imagery. For a project built on repeating the same design across dozens of farms, it's a more precise and scalable fit than before.
In practice, that means for each new site, the Environment team establishes an Aboveground Carbon (AGC) baseline before planting, using satellite-derived carbon density data (measured in MgC/ha). Carbon growth is then tracked as the change between the current AGC reading and that baseline. Because the baseline is low and comparatively flat on the degraded or actively farmed land where windshields go in, future growth can be attributed to the restoration work itself with much less ambiguity than on land with mixed existing vegetation.
What's next
The project's Verification Quality Score stays at 98.2 for now, under our Mission Certification. Amazon Windshields' existing sites remain under this certification, while new sites will be assessed, baselined, and certified under Foundation as they come online, one more step in growing the project on stronger footing. The VQS will be updated once the carbon analysis of these new sites is complete.
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