Change Culture not Climate. Act on carbon. Change your story.

C-Level works out your carbon footprint and balances impact through indigenous forests and peoples.

Join the world's most forward thinking businesses - supporting local people to protect precious forests.

We deepen your balanced business by co-creating new narrative.

Change Culture not Climate. Act on carbon. Change your story.

C-Level works out your carbon footprint and balances impact through indigenous forests and peoples.

Join the world's most forward thinking businesses - supporting local people to protect precious forests.

We deepen your balanced business by co-creating new narrative.

Change Culture not Climate. Act on carbon. Change your story.

C-Level works out your carbon footprint and balances impact through indigenous forests and peoples.

Join the world's most forward thinking businesses - supporting local people to protect precious forests.

We deepen your balanced business by co-creating new narrative.

Change Culture not Climate. Act on carbon. Change your story.

C-Level works out your carbon footprint and balances impact through indigenous forests and peoples.

Join the world's most forward thinking businesses - supporting local people to protect precious forests.

We deepen your balanced business by co-creating new narrative.

Change Culture not Climate. Act on carbon. Change your story.

C-Level works out your carbon footprint and balances impact through indigenous forests and peoples.

Join the world's most forward thinking businesses - supporting local people to protect precious forests.

We deepen your balanced business by co-creating new narrative.

Why choose C-Level?

Carbon Balanced

Get fully certified and measurably effective carbon balancing from a trusted B-Corp with global brand expertise. Read more

Plan Vivo

Access a select range of community led carbon offset projects - projects that align your business with the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more

101 Visions

Get clear and share your story, bring your carbon balancing to life and inspire the people who matter most through powerful branded micro-documentaries. Read more

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Who we've helped

What people say

“I seriously want to thank you for all your help, you made the impossible possible”

Ines Aramburo, Communications, Pur Projet

“You have given us a communications strategy that speaks to customers and brings provenance to life”

Cris Talens, MD, Source

“The art of the art of the possible”

Ian Peters, Chairman, British Gas

C-Level understands the importance of people as catalysts for change. That’s why we love working with them…

Kahlil Baker, Director, Taking Root

“inspiring and partnering are areas where you excel”

Louise Foreman, Global Client Community Development, Bridge Partnership

Explore our projects

Hadza Hunter Gatherers - Protecting Global Environment

Project name: Hadza Hunter Gatherers

Partner:
Carbon Tanzania

What they do:
An ancient tribal group in Yaeda Valley Tanzania reducing deforestation across the valley. A REDD+ project in Tanzania, strongly supported by the tourism sector

Impact:
35,000 hectares of forest is protected in the valley, the Hadza's home for thousands of years. Deforestation reduced in forests that store over 30,000 tonnes of CO2 each year

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Mongolian Nomads Project

Project name:
Mongolian Nomad Project

Partner:
Mongolian Society for Range Management & University of Leicester

What they do:
The first project directing payments to communities for ecosystem protection in Mongolia. Working with nomads to support their way of life and reduce grazing pressure on ecosystems like the Saxaul Forests.

Impact:
Collaboration with 98 herder families over 77,000 hectares. Reducing carbon levels by over 25,000 tonnes CO2 each year

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Restoring India's Cloud Forests

Project name:
Khasi Hills Forest Peoples

Partner:
Community Forestry International & the UminamSynjuk

What they do:
India’s first community-based REDD + project. Mountain Kingdom communities with strong connections to their forests. The community is strengthening protection of sacred groves and communal forests, and the unique flora and fauna of this region.

Impact:
Over 4000 families are benefitting from the project, fire damage to the forests is being dramatically reduced, and over 500 hectares of forest is being replanted.

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CommuniTree

Project name:
CommuniTree

Partner:
Taking Root

What they do:
CommuniTree is an award-winning programme for tropical reforestation in Nicaragua. Their projects combine farmer driven project design and innovative technology to create forests that last. These are indigenous forests that provide long term benefits to climate, people and ecosystems.

Impact:
The project is creating pockets of indigenous forest across a large area working with smallholder families on the their own land. The extent of forest creation can be clearly seen in the CommuniTree Map. In 2019, the project will be launching FarmTrace, providing un-paralleled access to the impacts specific farmers are achieving and bringing those in business who are Carbon Balanced that much closer to the people who are working with trees.

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Blue Forests - People & Mangroves Together

Project name:
Mikoko Pamoja

Partner:
Association for Coastal Ecosystem Services (ACES) and Mikoko Pamoja Community Organization (MPCO)

What they do:
Villages on the East African coast protecting and restoring mangroves. Community-based policing of illegal mangrove harvesting, as well as the application of local expertise in mangrove planting.

Impact:
117 hectares of mangrove forest is being protected and two villages in Gazi Bay, Kenya (498 villagers) are engaged. in the valley, the Hadza's home for thousands of years. Deforestation reduced in forests that store over 30,000 tonnes of CO2 each year. Winner of the Equator Award 2017. Project expanding to Vanga Bay.

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Our story

Daren Howarth, C-Level

I am an ecologist and systems thinker who woke up to the need to energise and support decision makers in business. I founded C-Level to help people in business reconnect with what really matters for success – to bring business systems into alignment with ecosystems.  To be turning your business around towards a different future, energised by an undeniable purpose…it starts with Carbon Balanced business and deepens through a more Balanced Narrative.

So C-Level stands for (c)arbon level innovation and action.  We introduced the terms carbon footprint and carbon balanced globally when we set up in Brighton back in 2000.  Since then earth’s CO2 level has gone up over 10%.  Take a look at CO2.earth.  New language in business is important, and I am proud we have achieved B Corp Certification and built protection of the biosphere into our legal constitution. Our main focus remains Carbon Balancing – bringing business and forest peoples together on climate change.

C-Level also stands for (c)ulture change.  We offer powerful story crafting to help bring deeper changes into your business.

Daren Howarth, Founder – read more about C-Level and our services

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