Iberdrola launches Carbon2Nature for nature-based carbon credits

Iberdrola launched Carbon2Nature, a company developing nature-based solutions to remove CO2 and generate high-quality carbon credits. The venture signals corporate scaling of carbon-credit generation through ecosystem restoration, a model relevant to India's evolving carbon-market and biodiversity frameworks.

Iberdrola launched Carbon2Nature (C2N), a new company developing high-impact nature-based solutions to eliminate carbon emissions, improve biodiversity, and generate high-quality carbon credits for customers. C2N expects to capture and store more than 61 million tonnes of CO2 in natural sinks through ecosystem conservation and restoration covering more than 100,000 hectares, including forests, coastal ecosystems, and agricultural soils. The launch follows Iberdrola's commitments to reach net zero across its full value chain by 2040 and achieve a net-positive biodiversity impact by 2030.

Carbon-credit buyers and ecosystem-restoration stakeholders are affected, as C2N will generate credits through in-house and collaborative projects that avoid emissions from ecosystem degradation and drive carbon sequestration. The business plan focuses on Iberdrola's operating regions, with Latin American countries hosting around 80% of projects and northern hemisphere countries including Spain, the UK, and Portugal accounting for 20%. The company is already developing projects in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Spain, emphasising collaboration with local communities.

Indian corporates and policymakers shaping carbon-market and biodiversity frameworks should monitor how nature-based solutions generate high-quality, high-integrity carbon credits. Buyers can track C2N's project pipeline targeting over 61 million tonnes of CO2 across more than 100,000 hectares of forests, coastal ecosystems, and agricultural soils. Stakeholders evaluating nature-based credits should watch the collaborative development model with local communities and how project quality standards address integrity concerns increasingly scrutinised in voluntary carbon markets.

Key figure — Capture target: over 61 million tonnes CO2 across 100,000+ hectares