Top OJ Maker Uses Green Credits to Fund Move From Diseased Trees

One of the world’s biggest orange juice processors is turning to carbon credits to help finance the Brazilian citrus industry’s costly move away from disease-laden orchards.

Citrosuco and Itaú Unibanco, the largest private bank in Latin America, are partnering on a carbon credit program to fund farmers moving from the country’s main citrus belt to the Cerrado region in central Brazil, where a deadly citrus disease has not yet devastated trees.