CARBON OFFSET | Instituto Terra

Twenty weeks of bush flights, ferries, and remote travel carry a carbon footprint the project does not take lightly. Field travel emissions, estimated at 22 tons of CO2e, will be tracked using Wren’s carbon accounting platform. In place of a standard carbon offset purchase, the Great Alaska Project directs its full sustainability budget to Instituto Terra, a reforestation nonprofit in Brazil’s Vale do Rio Doce.

Instituto Terra was founded by photographer Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado. Both Sebastião Salgado’s photography and his land restoration projects are an inspiration driving this project. Sebastião spent his final decades transforming a barren cattle ranch into a living forest of three million trees, work that continues today under Lélia’s leadership following Sebastião’s passing last year. This contribution will be made in his honor.