Wren Trailblazer Portfolio Update: October 2024

Meet your new climate projects

Exciting news, we've added three new supplementary projects to Wren Trailblazer—the portfolio you support with your subscription.

The majority of your portfolio is still carbon removal, but these new projects round out your subscription to ensure you can offset your carbon footprint today and maximize your holistic climate impact.

 🐬 Mangrove planting in Pakistan

This project restores degraded tidal wetlands and conserves mangrove ecosystems in the Indus Delta region within the Sindh province of Pakistan. It aims to revitalize 225,000 hectares of mangroves to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, enhance biodiversity, and uplift and protect coastal communities.

🥘 Clean cookstoves in East Africa

This project reduces greenhouse gas emissions by transitioning households and businesses in East Africa from charcoal to clean alternatives, decreasing the reliance on non-renewable fuels. This project marks the dawn of a new era for cookstoves, with a rigorous approach, Gold Standard methodology, and A rating from BeZero. We're proud to be the primary buyer for its first batch of credits.

🏛️ Carbon Removal Alliance

This project advances policies that support a diverse set of permanent, high-quality carbon removal technologies. Our partner propels the carbon removal sector in the United States by creating and supporting carbon removal policies, fostering innovation through government collaboration, and building congressional champions.

Adding insurance to Wren Trailblazer

As part of our climate portfolios, Wren funds activities occurring now that will issue carbon credits in the future. For example, Enhanced rock weathering spreads basalt rock to remove atmospheric carbon, but the full effects can take up to 25 years to be realized.

That's why we're purchasing Kita insurance, to safeguard future deliveries and help us keep our promises to you—our members. We’ve built this into existing pricing, so it won’t cost you any extra.

Updated portfolio allocations

The funding allocations for Wren Trailblazer have changed.

A note on mangrove credits

Since the inception of Wren Trailblazer, less than 0.1% of project funding has been directed to Mangrove conservation in Mexico.

Our partner for this project is experiencing a bureaucratic delay in the process for issuing carbon credits, so we’ve filled these credits with Mangrove planting in Pakistan. Your impact is unchanged.

If you have any questions, send us an email, and we'll get back to you shortly.

Thank you,
The Wren Team 🧡