sustainacraft Nature Credit Assessment and Procurement

Deloitte Tohmatsu Sustainacraft Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo company established in October 2021 and led by CEO Hiroshi Suetsugu, now part of the Deloitte Tohmatsu Group while keeping the sustainacraft brand. It works to channel climate finance into natural capital by helping corporates find and buy high-integrity nature-based carbon credits and make their supply chains deforestation-free.

Its core method combines satellite remote sensing with causal inference to assess nature-based carbon credit projects, estimating what would have happened without the project and checking forest and biomass changes. Services cover project assessment and due diligence, support for creating and procuring credits, forest and restoration monitoring, and an NCC platform dashboard. Nature CoCraft gathers corporate buyers into a coalition to pool demand for quality credits, while TraceCraft applies the same remote sensing to supply chain transparency and EUDR compliance. Clients and partners include Tokyo Gas, J-POWER, INPEX, Nippon Koei and Conservation International Brazil.

• Project assessment: remote sensing and causal inference to evaluate nature-based carbon credit projects.
• Credit creation support: helps partners develop forest, restoration and mangrove credit projects.
• Nature CoCraft: a corporate coalition that pools demand to procure high-quality nature credits.
• Restoration monitoring: biomass models for restoration sites, developed with Conservation International Brazil.
• TraceCraft: supply chain intelligence for sustainable sourcing and EUDR compliance.
• NCC Platform: an online dashboard for nature-based carbon credit information.

A Vietnamese mangrove or forest project owner seeking Japanese buyers can have its project assessed with satellite and causal inference methods. A Japanese-invested manufacturer in Vietnam can join a buyer coalition to source quality nature credits. A coffee or wood exporter can use TraceCraft to verify that sourcing areas meet EUDR rules.

Buyers get an independent, data-based view of whether a nature-based project's reductions are additional, using causal inference rather than only developer baselines. Pooling demand through Nature CoCraft gives corporates access to larger volumes of quality credits, with a target of 100 million tonnes cumulative supply by 2030. The same remote sensing supports EUDR compliance, and Deloitte group backing adds advisory capacity.

Japanese corporates and energy companies are major buyers of nature-based credits for the GX League and JCM, and they increasingly demand independent quality checks after integrity controversies. Mangrove and forest projects in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and Vietnam, are a key supply source. EUDR is also pushing Asian commodity suppliers to prove deforestation-free origin.

Established October 2021; HQ at 2-11-3 Meguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo; capital JPY 50 million; now a Deloitte Tohmatsu Group company operating under the sustainacraft brand. Second place in the NEDO Challenge satellite data category (March 2025). Partners include Tokyo Gas (2024), Nippon Koei (2024), Conservation International Brazil with IDB Lab and JICA (2025), and an Indonesia mangrove study with Daigas Energy (2025).