Carbon investment as a social impact lever

We're the The public sector's partners in carbon investment that delivers for communities.

Turning public sector net-zero targets into measurable socio-economic benefit.

Carbon investment as a social impact lever

We're the The public sector's partners in carbon investment that delivers for communities.

Turning public sector net-zero targets into measurable socio-economic benefit.

  • Permanent Storage
  • Full Traceability
  • Community Benefit
  • Intergenerational Wellbeing
  • Permanent Storage
  • Full Traceability
  • Community Benefit
  • Intergenerational Wellbeing

The Public Sector Climate Challenge

Councils, NHS boards, Transport agencies, Universities, National Parks and Housing providers in Wales all face the same challenges.

The result? Decarbonisation stalls, and wider wellbeing goals go unmet.

  • Climate targets without clear delivery routes
  • Shrinking budgets and growing social need
  • Procurement rules that limit innovation
  • Rising food insecurity and health inequalities

The Solution

Our nation-based carbon removal platform provides an entirely new ‘biogenic insetting’ economy, built around natural systems that sequester increased levels of Greenhouse Gases from the atmosphere.

 

A unique, localised mechanism that turns carbon removal into demonstrable, multi-sector public value via a simple 3 step process...

1. Recognition

Public bodies recognise and accept the fact that net-zero is physically impossible to achieve without investing in high-integrity certified carbon removal

2. Adaptation

Heads of Finance adopt more innovative approaches that combine well-being and decarbonisation budgets to maxmise socio and economic returns.

3. Collaboration

Public Bodies work with Clo Carbon Cymru to develop local investment models - based primarily on neutralising hard-to-abate (Scope 3 and value-chain) emissions - that deliver national decarbonisation & wellbeing outcomes which are measurable against policy.

Delivering Decarbonised Circularity

  • Model carbon & social value outcomes
  • Effective cross-sector procurement partnerships
  • Develop farm-to-community supply relationships
  • Unlock net-zero pathways that deliver real impact
  • Improved access to healthy, nutrient dense food
  • Builds community resilience in deprived areas

Fulfilling
Socio-Economic Duty

All of our nature-based investment models are considerate of SED, by design & result in outcomes which support fulfilment by:

  • Reducing food inequality
  • Strengthening rural livelihoods
  • Supporting low-income communities
  • New, decarbonised links between regions
  • Improving access to nutrient dense, healthy food
  • A Prosperous Wales Millions in annual revenue flowing to Welsh rural communities
  • A Resilient Wales Biodiversity enhancement through agroforestry
  • A Healthier Wales Improved food security and nutrition access
  • A More Equal Wales Addressing rural-urban inequality gaps
  • A Wales of Cohesive Communities Strengthening localised rural/urban linked food systems
  • A Wales of Vibrant Culture Supporting Welsh-language farming, communities & Cymraeg 2050
  • A Globally Responsible Wales International leadership in equitable, place-based climate action

Delivering Against Key Wellbeing Goals:

"Tackling climate change is not an issue which can be left to individuals or to the free market. It requires collective action and the government has a central role in making that collective action possible"

Welsh Government, 2019

Delivering Truly Collective Climate Action

Our platform provides the essential infrastructure required to transform disparate, individual public body investments into coordinated community transformation.
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Designed for
Every Public Body

With custom outcomes linked to each sectors statutory duties, CLOCs can be tailored specifically for:

Local Authorities
NHS Boards
Transport For Wales
Natural Resources Wales
National Parks
FE & HE Institutions
Fire & Rescue Services
Housing Providers
Arts, culture & heritage bodies

Sector Specific Examples

Carbon removal portfolios & their verified  outcomes can be shaped around organisational requirements, obligations & horizons

NHS Boards

CDR tackling hard-to-abate Scope 3 medical supply chain emissions

NRW

Carbon-efficient management of existing broadleaf estate & new progressive agroforestry systems

Local Authorities

Council farm revenue & improved community climate resilience

TFW

CDR for fleet & infrastructure emissions. Renewable fuel innovation pathways

  • Biomass for biochar
  • New agroforestry corridors
  • Local food supply for public institutions
  • Measurable, indipendentlly verifiable carbon storage
  • New revenue for tenants and councils
In Focus: The Council Farm Opportunity

Public land can become aproductive climate asset

Allocating just 10% of land from Wales’ 21,000+ ha of council-owned farms to agroforestry unlocks significant carbon removal & food production Potential. Generating:

Policy Brief

Dynamic Woodland Management for Ecology & Carbon

Coppicing, biochar & nature-based carbon removal in Wales

 

Intended audience: Natural Resources Wales (NRW), local authorities, farmers, independent woodland owners & managers:

 

Outline: How coppice management in broadleaf woodlands can contribute to climate, nature & rural economy objectives via emerging biochar CDR markets

Briefing Documentation
Better impact. Lower risk. Welsh-owned, grown & governed

Why Welsh Public Sector Bodies Choose CLOCs

CLOCs turn carbon procurement into an investment in Wales' future.

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  • Permanent High-Integrity Carbon Removal via biochar
  • Full Audit Trails For carbon reporting
  • Strengthens biodiversity, soils, water & climate resilience
  • Supports multiple statutory duties (WFG Act, SED, Net-Zero, LNRS)
  • Stimulates Welsh supply chains rather than overseas offsets
  • Social value that can be measured, reported and defended