We’re boosting agroforestry efforts to help the atmosphere and farmer livelihoods.

Source: Google Date: 2026-07-08 URL: https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/sustainability/thryve-earth-agroforestry/

Summary

Google, via the Symbiosis Coalition, signed a long-term carbon removal agreement with Thryve.Earth covering 260,000 tons of carbon removal from an agroforestry project in Sulawesi, Indonesia — its first agroforestry deal within Google’s carbon removal program. The project replaces fire-prone invasive grasses with a layered farming system (sugar palm and timber above, fruit crops like avocado and coffee in the middle, annual crops like chili and corn at ground level), pitched as benefiting both soil/biodiversity restoration and local farmer livelihoods.

Implications

Corporate sustainability/offtake news with no AI or agentic-engineering content — it doesn’t feed any of the six tracked landscape threads. Included here only as a datapoint on how a frontier AI lab is spending its non-model capital (carbon removal portfolio diversification), which is adjacent to but distinct from the compute/model/policy story this radar otherwise tracks.