Change the world one acre at a time

Being a part of the ARCC DAO means to stand as a beacon of hope and innovation. At the heart of ARCC lies our most precious asset; the remarkable potential of the industrial hemp plant. By revolutionizing the way we capture carbon, we can make a significant, measurable, and profitable impact together.

Our mission is to reduce the Global carbon footprint and protect our planet's most endangered species. 

Where Problem Meets Opportunity

Plastic pollution, deforestation, and greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest challenges we have ever faced.  We are in a Climate Crisis, but there is still time to avert disaster if we take bold, immediate action at the speed and scale necessary to enact serious transformational and sustainable global changes.  

The Opportunity

Carbon Credits

There is currently a lack of carbon credits on the market to meet global government mandated demands.
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Starting in 2024, the world's largest polluters must purchase carbon credits to offset their bad pollution. (Airline companies, tech companies)
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Bloomberg Green analyzed 190 million tons of carbon offsets purchased in more than 50,000 transactions in 2021. Not close enough to 3 Billion needed starting in 2024!!

The opportunity

Plastics

Many countries have already banned single use petroleum plastics.

Sustainable products, not made with hemp, cost more to make than plastic products. Paper straws simply don’t work. 

The opportunity

Deforestation

200,000 acres of rainforests are cut down everyday  (the size of Los Angeles) to make paper and wood products.  
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Deforestation is leading cause of habitat loss for Endangered species

Trees do not grow fast enough to keep up with demand. 

The Solution

Industrial hemp can address all of these problems. We can replace single-use petroleum plastics with biodegradable hemp-based plastics, inevitably stopping petroleum plastics from ever entering our oceans. 
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We can use hemp instead of trees to manufacture paper and building materials slowing deforestation, the biggest threat to endangered species.  

 Industrial Hemp cleans our air by capturing more carbon per acre than any available plant or technology including trees.  Hemp can sequester up to 20 tons of carbon per acre, per year. A typical hardwood tree can only sequester 1 ton of carbon in its lifetime.  5 Months to grow hemp vs. 40 years to grow trees.  

Hemp Can

sequester 25 times more carbon per acre compared to trees

climate pledges

Government Mandated Carbon Credits

Government Mandated
‍Climate Pledges__

Starting in 2024 the united nations will require 3 Billion carbon credits worldwide to offset our current carbon output - this would require planting the entire mainland US (2.4B acres) with trees or planting 200M acres of hemp.  As of 2022, the average global carbon credit is worth $60

Did you know

Did You Know

300 Million Tons of plastics are produced each year

3 year plan

How We Get There

There are currently not enough industrial hemp seeds on the market to meet the current demand for industrial hemp. We must grow the seed supply. When ARCC plants a seed crop we can achieve a 10x yield of seeds to use for next year's planting. 
2023
Year 1

Plant: 2,000 Acres of Hemp
Sequester: 40,000 Carbon Credits ($2.4 Million)
Yield: 20,000 Acres of Seed Crop for Future Plantings

2024
Year 2

Plant: 20,000 Acres of Hemp
Sequester: 400,000 Carbon Credits ($24 Million)
Yield: 200,000 Acres of Seed Crop for Future Plantings

2025
Year 3

Plant: 200,000 Acres of Hemp
Sequester: 4M Carbon Credits ($240 Million)
Yield: 2M Acres of Seed Crop for Future Plantings

200,000 Acres in 3 Years sounds like a lot?

Here's Some Perspective

The US grows 90M acres Corn, 85M acres Soybeans, 45M acres Wheat & Oats,  only 0.5M acres of Hemp grown annually.
The USDA predicts 7.8M acres of industrial hemp will be grown in the USA by 2030.
In 2019 There were 500,000 acres of CBD hemp grown in the USA.
ARCC Project should be able to reach 200,000 acres of industrial hemp by year 3.  

Cyprus

35.1264
33.4299

Croatia

42
18

Bulgaria

42.7339
25.4858

Belgium

50.5039
4.4699

Austria

43
16.363449

Thailand

200,000 acres pledged with the ability to scale up to 7.2M Acres (Rubber Authority of Thailand)
15.8700
100.9925

Uruguay

10,000 hectares pledged- Uruguay attained the highest rate of $137 per carbon credit.
-32.5228
-55.7658

USA

2,000 acres pledged with the ability to scale up to 100K acres with current farming partners
37.0902
-95.7129

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