Some questions for Evertreen

“The company appears to be making ‘internally monitored’ equivalent to certified carbon credits.”

In December 2025, REDD-Monitor wrote about a company called Evertreen. The post raised a series of red flags about Evertreen’s operations. On 6 August 2026, the company left a comment following the post on REDD-Monitor.

I posted Evertreen’s comment here:

And I sent Beatrice Battelli, Evertreen’s director of PR and communications, some questions. That was two weeks ago, since when I have not heard anything. I’ve re-sent the questions today.

I asked Battelli for an on-the-record response and told her that I would post the company’s response in full and unedited as soon as it arrives.

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UPDATE — 21 September 2026: Evertreen responded to my questions on 18 September 2026. The interview is available here:

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In the meantime, here are my questions:

1. My statement that “Evertreen gives no information about which company certified the carbon project, or which carbon registry the carbon credits are listed on” refers specifically to the “Indonesian Emerald Reforestation” project. Evertreen's website provided no concrete information about this project — yet Evertreen was selling “0.5 tons CO₂” through “Trees in Indonesia” for £4.99. An archived copy of Evertreen’s “Reforestation in Indonesia” webpage is available here.
   I note that this webpage has now been removed. Please explain why. How many tons of CO₂ did Evertreen sell from its “Reforestation in Indonesia” project? How many trees were planted in Indonesia? Where exactly were these trees planted and by whom? Are these trees still monitored, and if so how, and by whom?

2. In December 2025, Evertreen was selling “0.3 tons CO₂” through “Restoration in India” for US$12.99. I pointed out that this seemed expensive. An archived copy of Evertreen’s “Reforestation in India” webpage is available here. Evertreen has now removed the option of paying for tree planting in India from that webpage.
   Please explain why this option was removed. How many tons of CO₂ did Evertreen sell for its “Reforestation in India” project? How many trees were planted in India? Where exactly were these trees planted and by whom? Are the trees still monitored, and if so how, and by whom?

3. In December 2025, Evertreen claimed to have planted 3,129,364 trees which had absorbed 3,025,356 tons of CO₂. At the time there was no explanation on Evertreen’s website of how this was calculated. Evertreen updated its “How Much Carbon Does a Tree Capture” webpage on 1 July 2026. In your response you state that “The CO₂ figure is lifetime, not annual.” Evertreen’s webpage explaining how the company calculates CO₂ storage in trees was updated in June 2026. This information was not available when I wrote about Evertreen in December 2025.
   I note that Evertreen currently claims to have planted 3,755,388 trees which have absorbed only 82,618 tonnes of CO₂. What happened? Where did almost 3 million tonnes of CO₂ go? Why did Evertreen reduce the figure so dramatically? What has happened to all the tonnes of CO₂ that Evertreen has already sold? Will customers be given a refund?

4. You say that “Pricing is linear” and that “the £100/£500/£1,000 figures” in my post “are not our prices”. Those were the figures I saw on Evertreen’s website. Here’s a screenshot of https://www.evertreen.com/trees taken on 18 December 2025:

   

   Where did those figures come from?

5. When I wrote the post about Evertreen in December 2025, Evertreen’s General Terms and Conditions of Service included the statement that “The Client irrevocably waives the right to refunds, chargebacks, or payment disputes once a transaction (initial or renewal) is processed.” Here's an archived copy of the terms and conditions.
   When and why did Evertreen amend section 7 of the terms and conditions, “Cancellation and Refunds”?

6. In December 2025, Evertreen was selling carbon credits from projects that had been suspended from Verra’s registry. I note that Evertreen has removed its webpage about Colombia. However, the webpage about Brazil still includes the Evergreen REDD project, which is listed as “On hold” on Verra’s registry. The Rio Anapu-Pacajá REDD Project is also listed as “On hold” on Verra’s registry. That’s two examples of projects that Evertreen has not removed despite them being under review. Why have these not been removed from Evertreen’s website?

7. Evertreen’s new webpage titled “Transparency” states that “planting is delivered by farmers and local partners engaged through non-profit implementing organisations”. But the webpage does not explain which non-profit implementing organisations these are. As far as I can tell, these non-profit implementing organisations are not listed anywhere on Evertreen’s website. Could you please provide a complete list of all the non-profit implementing organisations that Evertreen works with. Please organise the list by country and by tree-planting site in each country.

8. You write that “every site is GPS-boundary-mapped, with drone mapping, permanent photo points, forest-inventory survivorship plots and community surveys”. Could you please show me one example of one of Evertreen’s tree planting sites with all of this data, along with information about how this data was collected and by whom.

9. Evertreen has slightly amended paragraph 2.3 of its General Terms and Conditions of Service. Paragraph 2.4 (as it is now labelled) reads as follows:
   “Evertreen funds Projects that are either internally monitored by the Company or externally verified under recognised carbon standards, which may include Verra, Gold Standard or the Core CBL market. The mix of internally and externally verified Projects used for a given contribution is determined by Evertreen, and Evertreen will identify on request the standard applicable to a specific contribution.”
   I note that you did not respond to this part of my post about Evertreen.
   My concern is that Evertreen’s clients are buying carbon credits with no way of knowing in advance whether they will receive Verra or Gold Standard certified carbon credits, credits on the CBL market (which covers a wide range of registries), or credits that are “internally monitored” by Evertreen. The company appears to be making “internally monitored” equivalent to certified carbon credits.
   This is further illustrated in the form at the bottom of every page on Evertreen’s website:

   

   However, the tree planting credits that Evertreen offers are not third-party validated, verified, or certified. They are therefore not equivalent to Verra or Gold Standard carbon credits, or credits traded on the CBL market. Please explain what is going on here.

10. I have been informed that following my post about Evertreen on REDD-Monitor, Luca Giordaniello, one of the co-founders of Evertreen, claimed that REDD-Monitor’s business model involves writing negative defamation then asking for money to have the post removed.

    Needless to say, this is absolutely not true. I have never asked anyone for payment to remove a post. (On the other hand, I have been offered money to take down a post on REDD-Monitor. I posted the offer on REDD-Monitor, received no payment, and the original post is still available on REDD-Monitor.) I would be grateful for an acknowledgement that I have not asked Giordaniello for money — and an apology from him for making things up about me.