Google has signed a deal with agroforestry carbon removal firm Thryve.Earth to purchase 260,000 tons of carbon removal credits from a reforestation project in Sulawesi, Indonesia.The purchase was made through the Symbiosis Coalition, a carbon-buying consortium formed in 2024 alongside Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce, which focuses on purchasing nature-based removal credits.The deal will see Google purchase the credits over a ten-year period. In addition to Google, Chinese tech firm Tencent also signed a deal with the company to purchase 300,000 tons of carbon removal credits over ten years, which it claims is its first carbon removal deal outside of China.The credits will be generated by a forest restoration project in Sulawesi, central Indonesia, where the company will restore the region's tropical rainforests, which have been degraded by shifting agriculture, soil erosion, and invasive species.To restore the landscape, the company will deploy a mixed-crop farming system, which it claims will sequester carbon, replenish soils, reduce fire risk, and increase biodiversity and income for local farmers. The model includes an upper tree canopy of sugar palm plants and timber trees, a mid-layer of papayas, avocado, coffee, and bananas, and ground-level annual crops such as chili and corn.According to the company, previous projects using a similar model have led to expanded tree cover, improved soil health, and greater resilience to drought and fire within the first few years."Turning degraded grassland back into productive forest is, above all, an operational challenge. By pairing high-quality saplings and rigorous field protocols with verifiable monitoring of every hectare, we give our partners confidence that the carbon removals and community benefits are real, measurable, and built to last," said Ron Steinherz, co-founder and COO of Thryve.Earth.“The long-term offtakes from Symbiosis members give the Thryve team the certainty they need to build at scale, and that's exactly the kind of signal that unlocks the impact of this market and of projects like Thryve for people and planet,” added Julia Strong, executive director of Symbiosis Coalition.The agreement is Google’s latest in the carbon removal space. In March, the company signed a deal with Commonwealth Sortation to purchase 200,000 biochar-related removal credits by 2030.