Buyers left the avoided deforestation market because certification couldn't distinguish inflated claims from real ones. Isometric is building the protocol that does.
Designed to hold forest conservation to the same standard as carbon removal, Isometric's protocol gives developers doing rigorous work a way to prove it, and gives buyers certificates they can trust.
Baselines grounded in
reality
Isometric sets each baseline against real-world control sites facing similar deforestation pressure, and recalculates it at every certificate issuance. That means a certificate can never rest on an outdated risk forecast made years earlier, only on what's actually happening to comparable forests right now.
Leakage
assumed by default
Isometric starts every project with an assumption of 100% leakage, the risk that deforestation has been displaced rather than stopped. Developers reduce that assumption by demonstrating and monitoring that logging hasn't moved beyond the project's boundary, so rigorous conservation gets rewarded.
Root causes,
finally
quantified
The economic and social pressures that drive communities to clear land have never been quantified in avoided deforestation certificates. Isometric builds them into the calculation, requiring developers to demonstrate that those pressures have been resolved in partnership with the community.
Sign up to see the requirements, help shape them,
and get ready to certify from day one.
