The vision of Worldview Impact is to create a Sustainable Business for a Sustainable Future. By making your green investments grow, in projects that are mitigating climate change at the grassroots level, we will see sustainable livelihoods created for the poor and poverty reduced.

It is a three-fold mission:

1. Protecting the environment and biodiversity through the mitigation of climate change.
2. Enabling local economic growth through the creation of sustainable livelihoods for the poor.
3. Supporting social development through poverty reduction initiatives

Simplicity is the key. We want to see the creation of jobs and sustainable economies through the planting and harvesting of specific indigenous or compatible plants and trees. There are vast unused areas of land in the 7 pilot countries in Asia that have already been selected — two are currently in operation. These locations are ideally suited for tree planting to mitigate harmful climate gases, have access to funds and financing (e.g. Governments, IFC, UN, World Bank and other international foundation donations / grants / loans etc.), while providing more jobs and income to the poorest sections of the population. It is of note that as an advent of the “Lisbon Approach” and “Kyoto Protocol”, such ventures have verifiable investment value. The Model provides for job creation, export products and carbon credits. At the same time, the local populace is enhanced and given greater means to improve the quality of life. A global Team of experts including an award winning scientist, environmentalist and financial specialist have concluded that in particular environments, the most effective plants in mitigating green house gases are rubber trees. By integrating specific plants in a traditional tiered jungle canopy hierarchy, it provides product and revenue streams within the first year with demonstratable profitability in year two. Year three brings the bumper crop of return with the harvesting of the rubber tree sap coupled with carbon credits which continues uninterrupted organically. It provides sustainable livelihoods to thousands of people, as well as effective environmental improvement that is marketable for carbon credits trading.

We have raised some capital to plant about 10,000 rubber seedlings in our nursery in the remote South Eastern District of Moneragela. Our local team has been able to create about 27 new green jobs by employing young people from the villages close to the nursery. Our target is to plant at least 100 hectares this year where 600 rubber trees can be grown per hectare. We need a total of 60,000 rubber seedlings in the nursery. We are looking to find ways to generate more capital from investors — both individuals and companies — before the natural window shuts down this year when the monsoon starts. All future income from the rubber plantation project will be reinvested to build schools, public health centers, water wells and proper roads in the remote villages we have selected (after paying back the investors).

About 2,500 jobs will be created that will provide sustainable livelihoods to about 10,000 people in Sri Lanka alone. Furthermore, our aim is to establish value added benefits to the raw material from rubber tapping — such as production of medical gloves and other dipped products. This will further increase the economic benefits of the project for the local population as well as the investors. We plan to establish a cost effective example for large scale replication of sustainable development aiming at 50 similar projects within the next 5 years. In total this will mean 125,000 jobs and sustainable livelihoods for 650,000 people, and mitigating 60 million tons of green house gasses (which is equivalent to the yearly carbon footprints of 5 million Americans or Europeans). We will start operations in Africa (Ghana) and South America (Brazil) next year, once Asia is operational.