Climate Impact Update – 2025 Portfolio 3
August 15, 2025
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Can a cow save a forest? Between 2022 and 2024, the Keo Seima carbon offset project provided 64 breeding cows to communities in six villages. This supported the livelihoods of around 230 families, including 109 women. In this video, local community member Ke Veut shares her experience of receiving a...
In this video, we meet Kae Vert, the first woman to lead a community protected area in her village and a member of the Bunong Indigenous community. Vert shares how her work with the Keo Seima Carbon Offset Project protects the forest, wildlife, and her people’s identity, saying, “We protect...
In this video, we meet Chreng Bet, an Indigenous Bunong woman, who leads a community-based ecotourism initiative at Cambodia’s Leng Kao Waterfall. The Keo Seima Carbon Offset Project collaborated with the community to establish this new site, providing funding and technical support to open it to visitors. Now, the site...
The Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia, home to one of Southeast Asia’s remaining primary rainforests, face critical threats from deforestation and wildlife loss. Once largely isolated, the region now struggles with in-migration, agricultural expansion, high poverty rates, and poor access to higher education, all of which exacerbate environmental degradation. The project...
Before the Southern Cardamom project, communities drank unsafe water from canals, handmade wells, and lakes. Thanks to the funding from carbon offsets, the project has installed wells improving access to clean drinking water and improving resident health. The Southern Cardamom project is one of the initiatives in our Climate Impact...
The Chorng Indigenous people have lived in the Cardamom Mountains for decades and are considered essential to preserving these forest areas. Their cultural heritage was honored in a celebratory event that promoted the traditional identity of the Chorng people and their role in preserving the environment through sustainable tourism. The...
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