Querco Fagetea
Making nature measurable, shaping the future
At Querco Fagetea (QF), we make nature’s services visible and actionable. Using scientifically sound standards, we record how much CO₂ a forest stores and what other ecosystem services – such as biodiversity, water storage and air pollution control – it provides.
In this way, we enable forest owners, companies and investors to recognise the true value of nature and make targeted investments in its conservation and stability. Our approach goes far beyond conventional carbon offsetting. Instead of just offsetting emissions, we create nature assets that can be integrated into companies as real, measurable values, provide insurance companies with valid data for assessing risks and make forests bankable.
Through precise calculations and rigorous validation, we secure the long-term CO₂ storage of forests and ensure that targeted measures further strengthen their stability. This makes nature conservation not only an ecological but also an economic success factor.
Carbon credits are a first step, but biodiversity credits expand this approach and make the protection of ecosystems even more tangible. With our solutions, we help companies to put their sustainability strategies on a scientifically sound basis – and thus actively contribute to the conservation of valuable natural areas
Industrial companies must prove their efforts to avoid or reduce their CO2 emissions. For unavoidable emissions in the Net Zero scenario, only neutralization models in carbon sinks such as the German forest come into question. The main challenge here is the reliability of the neutralization …
The forest is the ideal partner for industry on its way from Net Zero to the “Nature Positive” scenario. Especially with a view to the regulation on sustainability (e.g. CSRD or Directive on Green Claims), the forest and its comprehensive ecosystem services can cover the great need of industry and society for long-term safe solutions …
Our mission
Climate change and the associated destruction of habitats is the greatest challenge of our time. A comprehensive, sustainable transformation is essential so that our planet also offers living space for future generations. Our certificates according to the QF standard make the neutralization of unavoidable residual emissions transparent, traceable and verifiable. They also create economic incentives to avoid emissions and to strengthen the natural reservoir forest, thus preserving ecosystems and their contribution to nature positive.
With the latest technology, scientific know-how and expertise, we support companies, municipalities and forest owners on their way to a measurably more sustainable future. We certify the neutralization of residual CO2 emissions from companies based in Germany and also document the reinvestment in the forest and its ecosystem services that is possible through the sale of the certificates. For the first time, the forest owner receives monetary compensation for the CO2 neutralization performance of his forest, which supports him in (re)building the forest sustainably.
