To celebrate arbor day we paired up with several local designers to create the first Tree.ly Merch collection. All income goes towards planting trees in Europe. For sustainable forests.

Get your Tree.ly Shirt now! 👕

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The forest and its CO2 storage potential together with its protection, utility and recreational capabilities is a valuable resource and the basis for many people’s livelihood. We ensure the preservation of the forest by using state-of-the-art technologies and through the execution of regional CO2 projects with forest owners. These projects lead to a better forest structure, increase the climate resilience of the forest and optimize the CO2 storage potential.

**Tree.ly stands for**
- preservation of forests
- modern technologies
- regional cooperation
- climate protection
- transparency and fairness
- reliable partnerships with forest owners

## And why do we need Tree.ly?
In Europe, forests have an immense, untapped climate protection potential. They compensate for about seven percent of emissions in Germany.  Tree.ly stands up for forest – our basis for life – and create opportunities for everyone to participate in climate protection by supporting forest owners in the sustainable management of their forests. We ensure that this valuable resource is preserved for us as well as future generations.
We use state-of-the-art technologies to create incentives for modern and sustainable forest management. Tree.ly, allows regional forest owners to receive fair compensation for their positive contribution to the environment in the form of CO2 credits. With regional projects, we ensure that emissions are compensated right where they occur, contributing to the consistent, sustainable management of forests. This way, we can have the biggest impact on stopping climate change. For a sustainable, livable and just world. 

Why Tree.ly?

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We work hand in hand with forest owners, combining deep knowledge and climate awareness with the very latest tech, to create a future worth living in.

**Would you like to generate additional capital with your forest?**

**Do you want to play your part in a sustainable future?**


The great CO2 storage potential of forests is widely known. Less well-known is that this may also be a source of income to make forestry more profitable in today's world. We help bring additional money into your forest while realizing valuable climate protection services.


## Regional and climate friendly
Carbon certifications are associated with high initial costs for forest owners and can be a complex maze to navigate. This is where Tree.ly steps in for forest owners as a reliable and experienced partner. As well as this, our technology makes it possible for forest owners to manage and easily maintain their forest as a CO2 sink without high investment costs. We design climate protection projects that aim to optimize CO2 storage potential and thus increase the removal of greenhouse gas emissions. The additional revenues generated by our carbon credits help forest owners ensure the ongoing sustainable management of their forest. To contribute to climate protection, additional annual revenue is to be used exclusively for forestry measures related to the forest area covered by the project.

## High-tech solution for the climate
As a technology company, Tree.ly creates accurate biomass surveys via remote sensing with their proprietary machine learning models. This creates digital twins of forests using satellite imagery, LIDAR data, elevation level maps and tree species distribution maps. With Tree.ly's digital platform, you can access relevant key figures about your forest at all times. This technological solution can also be applied to very small areas and is scalable to the whole of Europe. This is a breakthrough climate tech which paves the way for an automated EU-wide forest inventory with multiple fields of application.

## Tree.ly offers you:
- Feasibility studies for specific implementation
- Calculation of the CO2 storage potential
- Calculation of the ideal overall forest stock 
- Provision of relevant key figures for forest management
- Tips for forest management optimized for carbon certification
- Access to Tree.ly’s digital forest management platform
- Organization and administration of the certification process
- Organization of monitoring and auditing activities
- Creation of a risk pool for damaging events 

## Increased income through climate protection services
In the first step, Tree.ly is serving forestry operations with an inventoried forest area above 500 hectares. However, in the near future, Tree.ly’s platform will enable whole forest inventory, thus opening up the possibility to small forest owners too. We are currently in contact with a large number of forest owners of all sizes. To date, we have already carried out feasibility studies for around 15,000 hectares of forest. 

Tree.ly was founded with the aim of combining state-of-the-art technology, full transparency, and forest conservation, putting climate protection into practice through regional cooperation and financial viability. 

It’s time for forest resources and good forestry practice to be truly valued and appreciated. You too can help drive climate protection and sustainable development in Europe. Let the forest work for you.


[Claim your forest now.
](https://tree.ly/sign-up/step-1)



What does Tree.ly do?

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As if we needed any further reminders of the seriousness of the climate emergency, the IPCC have released the [final part of its Sixth Assessment Report](https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_FinalDraft_FullReport.pdf). While it lays out in no uncertain terms the extent of the challenge, there is cause for optimism as the focus is on “the linkages between climate change mitigation, adaptation and development”.

Firstly, the bad news: clearly the window of opportunity to limit serious temperature rises is fast closing. Not only have emissions not reduced, they continue to rise. 

But this report was less about the bad news, and more about what we can do to fix this. Alongside a recommendation for “rapid and deep” emissions reductions to limit global warming to less than 1.5 or 2C, there was a new focus given to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in all its forms: “The deployment of CDR to counterbalance residual emissions is unavoidable if net zero CO2 or GHG emissions are to be achieved.” (Section C.3)

This insightful table essentially puts man-made solutions side by side with nature-based solutions in the clearest way ever:

![IPCC-Report-Graph.png](https://cdn.tree.ly/strapi-staging/IPCC_Report_Graph_41ba15bb8b.png)
*Source: IPCC, Figure SPM.7: Overview of mitigation options and their estimated ranges of costs and potentials in 2030. Full table available on Page 51 [here](https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg3/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf).*

Here it’s clear that, for now, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is both inefficient at cutting carbon and incredibly costly. Thankfully a technology exists which is cost-effective, efficient, readily available, and whose impact literally grows over time. 

#### Yes, we’re talking about trees.  


In fact, when combined, forest-based solutions represent the biggest climate mitigation options of all, taking into account reduced deforestation, afforestation, and sustainable forest management. 

Let’s take a look at the IPCC report’s main findings regarding the role of forests in climate change mitigation. 


### Cost-effective solution
It’s important to note that the “net lifetime cost” of tree-based solutions in the above table is also comparatively low. On this economic mitigation, the report states that the largest share comes from the “conservation, improved management, and restoration of forests and other ecosystems.” Clearly, we all have a huge incentive to maintain existing forest stocks. 

### Climatic impacts on trees
The changing climate is a double-edged sword for forests themselves – on the one hand, higher CO2 levels may “enhance tree growth rates, carbon sequestration, and timber and biomass production” but on the other, climate change could lead to “greater frequency and intensity of disturbance events in forests”. However, the net effect remains to be seen. 

### Sustainable forestry 
The report clearly recognizes the role of “Indigenous Peoples, private forest owners, local farmers and communities manage a significant share of global forests and agricultural land and play a central role in land-based mitigation options.” At the same time, there is a role too for sustainably sourced wood products and the locked-in carbon storage this entails: “When done in a sustainable way, more regrowth will occur and is stimulated by management, resulting in a net sink.”

### Urban expansion
The report states that urban land may well triple between now and 2050, and that given past trends, this expansion “is expected to take place on agricultural lands and forests, with implications for the loss of carbon stocks.” But at the same time, a ‘greening’ of urban areas (including urban forestry) could both help cooling effects and play a carbon capture role, seeing as urban trees currently store 7.4 billion tonnes of carbon, and sequester approximately 217 million tonnes of carbon annually.

### Zero deforestation
It goes without saying that the report recommends redoubling efforts to end deforestation at all levels. This includes a “High Carbon Stock (HCS) approach” that combines carbon stock values with the protection of HCS areas. They call, however, for greater degrees of transparency and legislative powers to “improve the enforcement of forest laws and regulations”.

### Forest financing
As the costs of delivering the proposed forest-related carbon sequestration and emission reduction may reach $400 billion a year by 2050, the IPCC recommend maximizing the horizontal engagement between business, NGOs, and communities to meet the financing needs. Furthermore, they state that “enhanced monitoring, reporting and verification capacity” play a crucial role in establishing trust across this “wide array of actors”.

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Overall, the report is positive on the effect sustainable forestry can have on mitigating climate change, with the potential to deliver 5-6 gigatons of CO2 per year in sequestration and emission reduction. Moreover, they spell out the clear interrelation between sustainable forest management and the path of sustainable development – and the clear benefit not only to the planet but to society and human advancement at all levels. 


Forests and carbon capture: the verdict from the latest IPCC report

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As the term suggests, carbon removals, also known as carbon dioxide removals (CDR), are nature-based or technological methods of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and result in negative CO2 emissions.

The Paris Climate Agreement calls for limiting man-made global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or even 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible, compared to pre-industrial levels.

## Why exactly 1.5 °C?

According to climate scientists, a global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius is the limit to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds that the atmosphere can only absorb 313 gigatons (Gt) of CO2 to stay below the 1.5 degree limit. In 2020, about 36 gigatons of CO2 were emitted globally. If we assume that the world will continue to emit this much CO2, the CO2 budget will be used up in less than nine years. Therefore, reducing our CO2 emissions alone is not enough to achieve the climate targets.

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As you can see from the graph, we cannot reduce our carbon footprint fast enough through conventional methods, such as renewable energy, to reach "net zero" by 2050. Carbon removals are needed to offset the unavoidable emissions.

Carbon removal varies depending on how the CO2 is removed from the air and for how long it is then stored. Often these two characteristics are related. A distinction can be made between nature-based methods, such as forestry projects, and machine-based methods, such as direct air capture (DAC). Nature-based methods store CO2 for a shorter period of time than machine-based methods. However, they are more efficient and scalable. Machine-based methods such as DAC are still in the early stages of development, have low CO2 storage volumes, and have extremely high development and construction costs.

[Tree.ly](https://tree.ly/blog/why-treely) focuses on forest projects. As trees grow, they convert CO2 to biomass through photosynthesis. A mature tree can absorb up to 22 kilograms of carbon from the atmosphere per year and at the same time producing enough oxygen for four people per day. Furthermore, [CO2 projects with forest owners](https://tree.ly/blog/what-does-treely-do) have additional environmental benefits, such as purifying drinking water and protecting the livelihoods of a wide range of animal and plant species.

[IPCC - Why exactly 1.5 °C?](https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/)

 What are carbon removals and why do we need them to reach our climate goals?

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I’m very happy to introduce our brand new component library for React - Boemly. Boemly is based on the widely known open-source component library [ChakraUI](https://chakra-ui.com/), which is focused on accessibility and speed. Boemly focuses on the same values and enriches ChakraUI with some neat components conceptualised and built by the Tree.ly team. Boemly offers a very limited amount of customizations to keep it simple, only core tokens like fonts, colours, border radii, … can be customised.

# How to use Boemly?

Boemly tries to be as easy to use as possible. It’s based on the widely known [provider pattern](https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html) in React. You have to wrap the whole app in the BoemlyThemeProvider and then use the components of the library. A little example:

```js
import { Button, BoemlyThemeProvider } from 'boemly';

function App() {
  return (
    <BoemlyThemeProvider>
      <Button>Button</Button>
    </BoemlyThemeProvider>
  );
}

export default App;
```

## Useful links:

- Full documentation → https://boemly.tree.ly 
- GitHub → https://github.com/treely/boemly (Don’t forget to star!)
- NPM → https://www.npmjs.com/package/boemly 

# Technical details

Boemly is 100% written in Typescript and follows the high coding standards at Tree.ly. Same as ChakraUI, Boemly uses [Emotion](https://emotion.sh/) for styling and [Framer Motion](https://www.framer.com/docs/) for smooth animations. To ensure code quality an automated linting, testing, and publishing pipeline is set up. Deploy early, fail fast!

# Open source

Boemly is an open-source project and has already found some contributors. We at Tree.ly believe in the valuability of an engaged developer community. That’s why we want to open-source as much as possible and encourage employees to contribute to open-source projects whenever they want. Boemly is the first open-source project of our young company - contributions are highly appreciated - don’t be afraid of being wrong.


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