§ 00About us

A Zimbabwean practice for a global carbon market.

Terra Verde Carbon Asset Consulting works with landowners, conservancies, community trusts and corporates across Zimbabwe and Southern Africa to assess what their landscapes and operations are worth in carbon terms — and to convert that assessment into durable value.

The practice

Science-based carbon consulting, from the ground up.

Zimbabwe holds vast natural capital that has never been priced. Miombo woodland, savanna rangeland and agricultural soils store carbon at a scale that matters to global buyers — but only where the measurement, the tenure and the benefit-sharing can be trusted.

On the other side of the same market, Zimbabwean companies face rising expectations from investors, lenders and customers: credible inventories, science-based targets, supply-chain emissions and disclosure that stands up to interrogation.

Terra Verde sits between the two. We develop carbon assets for the people who hold the land, and we build the climate strategy and disclosure that corporates need — using the same underlying science, and the same standard of evidence.

What we hold to

Measure first

No claim leaves this practice without a baseline behind it. If the carbon cannot be counted, it cannot be sold.

Landholders are counterparties

Communities and trusts are not a consultation box. Benefit-sharing is structured up front, in writing.

Market discipline

We treat credits as financial instruments: vintage, integrity, delivery risk and price all get the same scrutiny as the science.

Local evidence

Zimbabwean ecosystems, tenure systems and disclosure expectations are not European ones. Our models reflect the ground.

§ LeadershipWho is accountable

Carbon market infrastructure · Victoria Falls

Benjamin Chimutengo

Executive Board Chairman

Benjamin Chimutengo chairs the board of Terra Verde, having built his career in the infrastructure that carbon markets actually run on. As chief executive of the Victoria Falls Carbon Registry, he helped establish — with Carbon Trade Exchange and Global Environmental Markets — a Zimbabwe-owned registry and exchange for African projects, so that credits generated on the continent are lodged, issued and traded from it rather than offshore.

Registry infrastructure

Led the creation of the Victoria Falls Carbon Registry in 2023, giving Zimbabwe and partner African states a national route to register projects, issue credits and administer their own market under the Paris Agreement.

Governance and evidence

At board level, one test holds: whether a project's methodology, benefit-sharing and issuance would survive scrutiny by a regulator, a verifier and the community that hosts it — in that order.

African ownership of the market

A long-standing advocate for keeping the value of African carbon in Africa, through locally owned registries, exchanges and the skills that run them.

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Ten years in carbon markets · Zimbabwe & Southern Africa

Malvin Chimutengo

Chief Executive Officer

Malvin Chimutengo is Chief Executive Officer of Terra Verde, with ten years spent in carbon markets. He leads the practice's origination, measurement and monetisation of carbon assets across Zimbabwe and Southern Africa — and the corporate climate strategy that sits alongside it — working with landowners, conservancies, community trusts and corporate counterparties from first feasibility through to verified, contracted credits.

Regulation-literate origination

Project structures built for Zimbabwe's Carbon Trading (General) Regulations, SI 48 of 2025 — registration, benefit-sharing with the communities who hold the land, and revenue terms settled before a single credit is issued.

Field-verified MRV

Baselines, monitoring and verification across miombo woodland, savanna rangeland and agricultural soils — documented to the standard Verra and Gold Standard validators actually apply.

Markets, not just certificates

Buyer-side discipline on vintage, integrity and delivery risk, and the Article 6 route — authorisation, corresponding adjustments, ITMO transfer — treated as part of the commercial structure.

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How we engage

Diagnostic

We test whether an asset, a target or a claim is defensible before anyone spends money on it.

Build

Baselines, inventories, models and documents are produced to the standard a verifier, auditor or buyer will apply.

Defend

We stay through validation, assurance and negotiation — because the value is realised at the point of scrutiny.

Working across mining, energy, forestry, agriculture and water infrastructure — and with the public institutions that set the rules for all of them.

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