Google and McKinsey have agreed to buy 320,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits over 10 years from Working Trees, a company that plants trees on cattle pasture in Brazil. The Symbiosis Coalition announced the long-term purchase agreements on Monday, Oct. 19.

Working Trees is converting degraded cattle pasture into mixed-species systems across Brazil's southeastern Amazon and Cerrado regions. The offtake deals will help fund the restoration of 8,700 hectares of degraded and semi-degraded pastureland, part of a broader 50,000-hectare project, and Reuters called it one of the first attempts to deploy carbon-funded silvopasture at a larger scale. Google said in a blog post that its share covers 270,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal.

Silvopasture integrates trees into cattle pastures, so ranching can continue while the land stores more carbon and there is less pressure to clear forest.…