Carbify是一家荷兰公司，声称拥有“为每个行业植树的解决方案”。

有两个Carbify公司：Carbify集团BV； Carbify BV都于2023年11月28日在荷兰商会注册。

A Dutch company called Carbify has developed a game called Eco Empires in which tribes such as Frozen Vanguard, Stormbringers, and Waterborne wage epic battles for the Earth.

一家名为Carbify的荷兰公司已经开发了一款名为Eco Empires的游戏，其中诸如冷冻的先锋队，暴风雨者和水上的工资史诗般的史诗般的史诗般的战斗。

While the company claims to have “Tree planting solutions for every sector”, the game appears to be focused more on crypto.

尽管该公司声称拥有“为每个行业植树的解决方案”，但该游戏似乎更多地集中在加密货币上。

According to the company’s website, the tribes in Eco Empires are collecting resources, building structures, and expanding their territory — all while becoming CO₂ neutral.

根据该公司的网站，生态帝国的部落正在收集资源，建造结构并扩大其领土，同时又成为中立。

The game is set in a world that has been affected by climate change, and the tribes are working together to restore the planet.

该游戏设定在一个受气候变化影响的世界中，部落正在共同努力恢复地球。

There is also a crypto coin. 10.52 million CBY tokens are apparently in circulation. The tokens are currently changing hands for US$0.18, down from US$4.26 in April 2024.

还有一个加密硬币。显然，有1052万个CBY令牌正在流通。代币目前以0.18美元的价格易手，低于2024年4月的4.26美元。

And then there are NFTrees. These are crypto trees linked to trees planted in the Amazon. The CO₂ absorbed by the trees can be converted to crypto tokens, or $aCO₂, which represent 1 kilogramme of CO₂.

然后是nftrees。这些是与亚马逊种植的树木相关的加密树。树木吸收的co可以转换为代表1千克二氧化碳的加密代币或$aco₂。

Earlier this year, Mongabay wrote about a report written by Planet, a satellite imaging company, Carbify, and a think tank called European Carbon Offset Tokenization Association (ECOTA).

今年早些时候，蒙加贝（Mongabay）撰写了有关《星球》（Planet）撰写的一份报告，该报告是一家卫星成像公司，Carbify和一个名为“欧洲碳抵消令牌化协会”（ECOTA）的智囊团。

“The sustainability and carbon market has a very deep-rooted integrity problem,” Maximilian Rösgen of ECOTA wrote in the report.

Ecota的MaximilianRösgen在报告中写道：“可持续性和碳市场有一个非常根深蒂固的完整性问题。”

He added that the solution is satellite imagery and blockchain technology. William ten Zijthoff, one of the co-founders of Carbify, said that, “When we started Carbify, I found it very weird that nobody was asking where the carbon was coming from. We have companies in Europe that sell carbon credits and when you buy them and ask where they are from, they will say somewhere in Brazil or South Africa. We wanted to create transparent carbon offsets linking each kilo of absorbed carbon dioxide back to the original source. That can only be done by blockchain. Even blockchain was not ready for this. We had to develop a whole new smart contract that did not exist to link the carbon dioxide from the tree back to the geolocation.”

他补充说，解决方案是卫星图像和区块链技术。 Carbify的联合创始人之一William Ten Zijthoff说：“当我们开始Carbify时，我发现没有人问碳来自哪里，这很奇怪。我们在欧洲有销售碳信用额的公司，当您购买碳信用额并询问它们来自哪里时，他们会在巴西或南非的某个地方说。我们想创建透明的碳偏移，将每公斤吸收的二氧化碳与原始来源联系起来。这只能通过区块链来完成。即使是区块链也没有为此做好准备。我们必须开发一份全新的智能合同，这些合同不存在，以将二氧化碳从树上连接到地理位置。”

Unfortunately, Mongabay did not investigate Carbify’s operations.

不幸的是，蒙加贝没有调查Carbify的操作。

But in September 2024, Follow the Money’s Mira Sys and Ties Gijzel published their investigation into the company.

但是在2024年9月，遵循这笔钱的Mira Sys和Ties Gijzel发表了对公司的调查。

It’s a great piece of investigative journalism that’s simultaneously funny and shocking: “This start-up claims to offset our emission by planting trees. But do those trees even exist?”

这是一项重要的调查新闻，同时又有趣又令人震惊：“这家初创企业声称可以通过种植树木来抵消我们的排放。但是这些树木甚至存在吗？”

In April 2024, Sys and Gijzel visited the Impact Fair 2024 in Utrecht. After the fair, Follow the Money received a “Carbon Reduction Certificate” for the 215 kilogrammes CO₂ they had emitted by travelling to Utrecht and taking part in the fair:

2024年4月，Sys和Gijzel访问了乌得勒支的2024年Impact Fair。博览会结束后，遵循这笔钱获得了他们通过前往乌得勒支（Utrecht）参加博览会的215公斤co的“减少碳证书”：

The “certificate”, which came from Carbify, stated that,

来自Carbify的“证书”表示，

This certificate is proof of tree planting as a means of offsetting carbon emissions. The entity responsible for this certificate has verified their compensation of CO₂ emissions using blockchain technology, adhering to the guidelines set forth in the UN Climate Agreement. The certificate is stored permanently on the blockchain and cannot be modified.

该证书证明植树作为抵消碳排放的一种手段。负责该证书的实体已使用区块链技术验证了他们对排放的补偿，并遵守了联合国气候协议中规定的准则。证书永久存储在区块链上，无法修改。

“Our interest is piqued,” Sys and Gijzel write. They decide to investigate.

Sys和Gijzel写道：“我们的兴趣是激发的。”他们决定调查。

In late 2023, Follow the Money received an email from Micha Klaarenbeek, a Dutch environmental expert. “When I visit the Carbify website, I see no information about where the money goes,” Klaarenbeek wrote. “There is little to no transparency about whether new trees are actually being planted.”

2023年下半年，遵循这笔钱收到了荷兰环保专家Micha Klaarenbeek的电子邮件。 “当我访问Carbify网站时，我看不到有关钱去哪里的信息，” Klaarenbeek写道。 “关于是否实际种植新树木几乎没有透明度。”

On its website, Carbify claims that,

Carbify在其网站上声称，

Carbify ensures transparency and trust through the Global Carbon Standard (GCS) and UNFCCC-verified validation, making every carbon offset accurately measured and fully traceable.

Carbify确保通过全球碳标准（GCS）和未经CCCC验证的验证确保透明度和信任，从而使每个碳偏移量都准确地测量且完全可追溯。

But as Sys and Gijzel point out, the UNFCCC does not verify or validate tree-planting operations for the voluntary carbon market, like Carbify.

但是，正如Sys和Gijzel指出的那样，UNFCCC没有像Carbify这样的自愿碳市场验证或验证自愿碳市场的植树作业。

Global Carbon Standard

全球碳标准

The Global Carbon Standard’s website was registered by Carbify. When Follow the Money asks about Global Carbon Standard, Ten Zijthoff says it’s a recently established US-based non-profit. Global Carbon Standard was incorporated in North Dakota on 8 March 2024.

Carbify注册​​了全球碳标准的网站。当遵循这笔钱询问全球碳标准时，十个Zijthoff说，这是最近建立的总部位于美国的非营利组织。全球碳标准于2024年3月8日在北达科他州成立。

Ten Zijthoff adds that Carbify does not pay for inspection of its tree planting operations, because the two companies have made a deal to share software in exchange for the inspection.

十个Zijthoff补充说，Carbify不需要用于检查其植树操作的费用，因为两家公司已经达成协议来共享软件以换取检查。

Here’s the Global Carbon Standard logo:

这是全球碳标准徽标：

It gives the impression that it is somhow endorsed by the UNFCCC. But the UNFCCC has nothing to do with the voluntary carbon market.

它给人的印象是，它得到了未来CCCC的认可。但是，联合国公司与自愿碳市场无关。

Global Carbon Standard claims to be “certified by Earthood”. But the only mention of Carbify on Earthood’s website is a “Methodology for Assessment of Carbon Capture”. The service that Earthood provided is “DDR”. Whatever that means. It’s the only time that Earthood has provided that

全球碳标准声称“通过Earthood认证”。但是，在Earthood网站上唯一提及的Carbify是“评估碳捕获的方法”。 Earthood提供的服务是“ DDR”。无论那意味着什么。这是Earthood提供的唯一一次