The Solution
SoGreen is channeling climate finance from the Global North to the Global South, by enabling the generation of a new type of Carbon Credits from Girls Education.
We are ensuring the education of girls in true partnerships with experts already on the ground. The main players in girls’ education are:
International NGOs and local NGOs
Governments and Educational authorities in the countries we operate in
The calculations create a new type of carbon credits, available for purchase. Our target customers are:
Companies focused on sustainability
Companies with net-zero targets
Companies interested in social impact climate solutions
Our Technology
The SoGreen model calculates the climate impact of schooling girls in low-income countries. The impact is translated into carbon credits available to sustainable companies.
The SoGreen model is country-specific, giving as accurate results as possible, targeting girls in low-income countries and often in remote, rural areas.
The increase of girls’ education anywhere in the world is linked to lower fertility rates as shown by a great deal of global studies. When fertility rates drop, population growth slows down, which means less consumption and leads to less emissions. The increase in education can also increase the individual’s personal carbon footprint, and this is accounted for in the SoGreen model.
The SoGreen model simulates the future demographic evolution, energy demand and carbon emissions of a representative sample of a specific population (for example the Zambian rural population). Based on the well-established relationship between fertility and female educational attainment, the number of children born to a woman in the model depends on her age and education level. Avoided emissions are calculated by comparing the emissions under a Baseline scenario, in which the pathways of girls’ education follow past trends, and an Intervention scenario, in which a given percentage of adolescent girls complete secondary education.
We collaborate with scientists at leading institutes on climate change and benefit from a dream team of advisors (including experts from Project Drawdown, IASA and the IPCC).