8.00am BST, London, UK | 23 September 2025
Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move and manage money, today announced a further £1,000,000 commitment to carbon removal projects through its partnership with Opna, a high-impact carbon removal company. The expanded collaboration brings the total commitment via Opna to £1.5m, to be channelled into high-integrity, nature-powered projects in climate-vulnerable regions across Latin America (LatAm) and Asia-Pacific (APAC), in line with Wise’s expansion markets.
Initially partnering with Opna in March 2025, Wise has now doubled its budget from £500k in FY25 to an additional £1m in FY26, proving long-term commitment to high-impact carbon removal and climate leadership. This leadership is also demonstrated through their approach to removing carbon emissions – tying its overall ESG budget to business growth, ensuring the company’s climate commitments scale with their commercial success.
Building on the trust and proven impact established throughout the past year, Wise and Opna’s collaboration further invests into high-integrity, nature-powered carbon removal projects across Wise’s key growth markets in Latin America (LatAm) and Asia-Pacific (APAC). This investment forms a central part of Wise’s ESG (environment, social and governance) strategy for FY26, and represents progress towards its commitment to measurable, lasting, and socially impactful climate action.
Caroline Corbett-Thompson
“Through our partnership with Opna, we’re delivering genuine climate impact in the regions that need it most. This additional investment represents our evolution beyond traditional carbon accounting – we're creating a model where our climate action scales with our business growth and addresses the emissions that are hardest to tackle through conventional reduction strategies.”
Opna's demonstrated ability to deliver measurable impact through high-integrity carbon removal projects across LatAm and APAC made them the natural partner for this expanded commitment. The additional contribution will support Opna's portfolio of nature-based and hybrid carbon removal solutions, continuing to deliver community co-benefits alongside environmental impact.
Shilpika Gautam
CEO & Founder, Opna
“Wise's commitment to high-impact carbon removal represents exactly the kind of forward-thinking climate leadership we need from global businesses. By tying their investments to business growth, they're demonstrating that climate action can be both strategic and scalable. We're honoured by their continued trust and excited to deliver even greater impact together.”
This expanded partnership reinforces Opna's mission to unlock climate finance for high-impact projects in climate-vulnerable regions with speed, scale and equity.
About Wise
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. With Wise Account and Wise Business, people and businesses can hold 40 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new network for the world's money. Launched in 2011, Wise is one of the world's fastest growing, profitable tech companies.
In fiscal year 2025, Wise supported around 15.6 million people and businesses, processing over $185 billion in cross-border transactions and saving customers around $2.7 billion.
About Opna
Opna is a high-integrity, high-impact carbon removal company whose mission is to unlock climate finance for carbon projects with speed, scale and equity.
With impact at its core, Opna supports companies to lead on timely and credible climate action by enabling them to drive catalytic financing into the highest-impact, nature-driven carbon removal projects, with a particular focus on countries most vulnerable to climate change.
Media contacts
Wise:
Gafar Kuku
Senior Corporate Communications Manager
Wise
📧 press@wise.com
Opna:
Rachael O’Brien
Head of Brand & Communications
Opna
📧 rachael@opna.earth
Please note: Caroline Corbett-Thompson, Global Sustainability and Social Impact Manager at Wise, will be in attendance and available for interviews during Climate Week NY 2025.
