On 18 December 2025, REDD-Monitor wrote about a company called Evertreen. The company sells carbon offsets from a range of projects around the world. On its website, Evertreen claims to be “on a mission to transform the world, one tree at a time”.
My article raised a series of red flags about Evertreen’s operations:
On 6 August 2026, Beatrice Battelli, director of PR and communications at Evertreen left a comment following the post on REDD-Monitor.
I have some questions about Battelli’s response, which I will send to her in the next few days. When I receive Evertreen’s response I will post it in full and unedited and provide a link to the response from this post.
In the meantime, here is Battelli’s response dated 6 August 2026:
Dear Chris,
I’m Beatrice Battelli, Director of PR & Communications at Evertreen. Thank you for the detailed piece — we take transparency seriously, so rather than dismiss it, here are the facts with sources anyone can check.
We publish our registries and IDs. The claim that we “give no information about which registry” isn’t accurate. Our certified credits come from named projects with public VCS IDs — e.g. Katingan Mentaya (VCS 1477), Tambopata–Bahuaja (VCS 1067), Vida Manglar (VCS 2290), Mikoko Pamoja (VCS 3660), TIST (VCS 2338) — each verifiable on the Verra Registry and retired once with a unique serial. We also publish independent ratings (BeZero, Sylvera, Calyx Global) and state plainly that we are an intermediary that sources and retires credits, not the project developer. (http://evertreen.com/verra-carbon-credits)
The CO₂ figure is lifetime, not annual. The article compares our per-tree number to a mature tree’s annual uptake. Ours is the total a tree is expected to sequester across its functional lifespan (often decades), estimated with species-specific allometric equations (GlobAllomeTree, FAO/CIRAD), IPCC 2006 factors and the standard 3.67 CO₂:C ratio — around 0.8 t over a tree’s life. Full method: http://evertreen.com/how-we-estimate-tree-co2. Trees and certified credits are separate products; we never merge them.
Pricing is linear. Our corporate plans are £150 (100 trees), £300 (200 trees) and £900 (600 trees) per month — exactly £1.50 per tree at every tier. The £100/£500/£1,000 figures in the article are not our prices. (http://evertreen.com/trees)
Refunds. The “irrevocable waiver” quoted is from a previous version of our terms. Our current terms give a 14-day statutory cooling-off (Clause 7.5) and a full refund at any time before funds are committed to a planting cycle (Clause 7.4).
Monitoring. Every site is GPS-boundary-mapped, with drone mapping, permanent photo points, forest-inventory survivorship plots and community surveys; corporate partners receive the exact GPS of their trees.
On ownership: Synesthesia Colours, one of our shareholders, is registered on the second floor of an office building — the ground-floor restaurant at that street address is an unrelated business.
We’ve also removed any project a standards body has withdrawn or placed under review. Our full point-by-point response is here: https://www.evertreen.com/transparency. And anyone — including you, Chris — can email partnerships@evertreen.com for registry serials, coordinates or certificates. We would rather be checked than believed.
Let me know if you have additional questions, and if you agree this article was not carefully drafted and should be updated. We are happy to support you with updating it if needed.
— Beatrice Battelli, Director of PR & Communications, Evertreen
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