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Green Finance Initiative · Aligned with UNCCD COP-17

A shield of trees
against the desert.

You plant. We plant alongside you, in Mongolia. Every donation funds native saplings, three years of monitoring, and a survival report you can read.

Plant a Tree — $10 How it works →

Or build your own planting project →

Green Shield Mongolia
Pick your shield

Eight ways to plant.

Quick donate below — or build a project step-by-step: programme → aimag → nursery → shield.

Our programmes

Five ecological programmes.

Every tree we plant is part of one of these five programmes — each answering a different ecological problem in a different part of Mongolia.

PROGRAMME · BOREAL & TAIGA

Reforestation

Restoring forest where it has been lost — Mongolia's northern boreal belt and Khangai range, hit by logging, fire, and the Siberian pine moth.

Learn more → PROGRAMME · DEGRADED STEPPE

Afforestation

Planting trees on already-degraded grassland and city-edge land — never on intact native steppe. The goal: stabilise soil, mitigate dust, and create new habitat at the urban–steppe interface.

Learn more → PROGRAMME · ANTI-DUST CORRIDOR

Shelter belt

Linear, multi-row tree strips at city edges and farm boundaries — engineered to reduce wind speed 40-60% downwind and intercept airborne dust before it reaches population centres.

Learn more → PROGRAMME · GOBI DESERT EDGE

Saxaul (Gobi)

Cluster-planted saxaul shrubs at the leading edge of the Gobi — the only species adapted to <100mm rainfall, with deep tap roots that anchor shifting sand and slow desertification.

Learn more → PROGRAMME · RIVER & LAKE BUFFERS

Riparian

Multi-species tree belts along river banks and lake edges — willow at the water line, poplar and birch above. Roots stabilise banks, intercept agricultural runoff, and create fish habitat.

Learn more →
Direct initiatives

Contribute to a named partner project.

Specific, audited reforestation projects we co-fund alongside Mongolian partners. Each donation routes directly to the project plot — same Y1 + Y3 audit you get on every tier, plus a public partner registry.

Why this matters

Yellow dust travels.

Mongolia's topsoil leaves the steppe by the tonne and lands on Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo three days later. The countries downwind are not abstract — and tree planting in Mongolia is one of the few interventions that measurably cuts dust at the source.

76.8%Mongolia degraded
560 Mpeople hit, Mar 2023
−81.7%dust w/ shelterbelts
Read the full briefing → Plant at the source

“When the Wind Rises” — a 60-second portrait of how Mongolia's topsoil reaches East Asia.

How it works

Plant. Monitor. Prove it.

01

You choose a shield

Pick a tier — from one tree to a corporate grove. Every pledge becomes a real planting plan.

02

We plant in Mongolia

Native species, planted in spring or autumn windows by local field teams in Khovd, Gobi-Altai, and Bayan-Ölgii.

03

You see it survive

GPS coordinates, photos, and audited survival surveys at year 1 and year 3. Every shield is traceable.

Current partners

Formal MoUs and operational partnerships in place.

Green Shield is a verified demand channel sitting on top of Mongolia's extraordinary state-led restoration supply chain.

National Forest Agency (NFA)

Government implementing body

Signed MoU. Suitability mapping, policy guidance & land coordination.

Mongolian Forest Research Association

Scientific partner

Species selection, survival methodology & monitoring protocols.

Billion Trees National Movement

Seedling pipeline

All plantings registered in the terbummod.mn system. Connects ~1,100 local Forest User Groups (FUGs).

The Business Council of Mongolia (BCM)

Private-sector gateway

COP-17 B4L host & organizer. Connects Green Shield to corporate ESG networks and investor pipelines.

National Green Lab

Public-private green incubator

Builds bankable pipeline aligned with NDC 3.0 and COP-17 priorities.

~1,100 Forest User Groups

Community stewards

On-the-ground planting, watering, fencing & infill — paid on survival milestones, not upfront.

Run a tree nursery? Become a partner.

We pay partner nurseries per sapling at your quoted prices and route donor orders to you automatically.

Apply as a nursery →
Our team

Forest science, climate policy, finance & on-ground implementation.

Bridging the disciplines that survival-first restoration actually needs.

Maralgoo Ganbat

Maralgoo Ganbat

CEO

10+ years in forestry, climate adaptation & complex multi-stakeholder projects. Led $2M public-private forest conservation partnership.

Enkhtumen Tumentsogt

Enkhtumen Tumentsogt

Finance Director

Sustainable finance specialist. Investment & fund management at IFIs and the Development Bank of Mongolia. Experience with ADB and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

Ariunaa Davaadorj

Ariunaa Davaadorj

Program Director

MPH Penn State, MPA Leiden. 6 years NGO project management & Ministry of Health grants. Partnership & programme lead.

Bat-Ulzii Chultem

Bat-Ulzii Chultem

Forest Information Management

10+ years in forest GIS, remote sensing & national forest monitoring. Led spatial analysis for Mongolia's REDD+ Forest Reference Level report submitted to UNFCCC.

Khongor Tsogt

Khongor Tsogt

Forest Policy & MRV Director

15+ years in forest policy, MRV & greenhouse gas inventory. Delivered consultancy across UN and donor-funded projects.

Web www.green-shields.com
Email maralgoo@green-shields.com