Impact at Scale

EP 67 - Dharsono Hartono - CEO of PT Rimba Makmur Utama - Good Intentions and Wanting to Help

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The Social Innovation Podcast sat down with Dharsono Hartono, the CEO of Rimba Makmur Utama. Rimba Makmur Utama manages the world's largest nature-based solution generating more than 7 million tonnes of carbon credits annually. 

Dharsono is an EY Entrepreneur of the year, a World Economic Forum Sustainability Pioneer, a Schwab foundation social entrepreneur of the year, and in 2022 won the YPO Global impact award. Dharsono has been working on this project for more than 15 years and he talks to us about the power of nature-based solutions, the importance of working with local communities as well as the challenges of being an entrepreneur in a new space.

Some of the major topics that Dharsono covered:

  • Transitioning from banker to conservationist
  • The power of who we surround ourselves with
  • Empowering the local community
  • The importance of nature-based solutions
  • How climate solutions can be good for businesses as well
  • The principles of carbon credits
  • Changing the lives of the villagers in the projec

    • Some other titles we considered for this episode:

    1. We Are Caretakers for Mother Earth
    2. Give Me Another Year
    3. Doing Things for the Right Reason
    4. A New Way of Doing Business
    5. Changing the Behavior of People on the Ground
      6. ...more
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