AgreenaCarbon is now Verra registered: A game-changing milestone for regenerative agriculture

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February 19, 2025.5 minutes

From credit to credibility: Building a high-integrity soil carbon project

Karolina Kenney

The growing weight on the voluntary carbon market

Carbon markets and common misconceptions

Agreena now Verra validated

Verra x Agreena

Standards: stewards of climate finance integrity

The rigorous process of achieving certification

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    Submission of project documentation: Typically this includes submission of a project description, a comprehensive risk assessment to determine the buffer pool allocation, a modelling report, emission reduction and removal calculation sheets, and monitoring reports for each verification event.

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    Validation and verification: Independent validation and verification bodies (VVBs) review all documentation over several months. This involves thorough checks of project design, site visits, data verification, and model validation.

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    Standards review: After the VVB completes its assessment, the standards organisation conducts its own review — a process that can take well over a year, involving multiple rounds of feedback and revisions.

AgreenaCarbon's Verra registration announcement

Complexity in quantification: beyond simple calculations

Ensuring robust MRV through a combined approach

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    Direct field data collection: Data is collected directly from farmers, covering key variables such as soil carbon sampling, tillage practices, cover cropping, and field boundaries.

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    Remote sensing cross-checks: Agreena uses remote sensing models trained with extensive ground-truth data to verify on-field practices.

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    Site visits: Standards require independent site visits to verify baseline practices and project implementation. Field visits are also conducted in-house to augment the MRV approach.

Trust through transparency and rigour

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From credit to credibility: Explore the series

In this series, we're sharing an overview of what it's taken to build a carbon project that meets the highest of standards – Verra’s VM0042 methodology. This series of articles introduces the Agreena team that have worked closest to the project and continue to support the next steps to verification and issuance.

In this series you hear from:

  1. Karolina Kenney, Senior Standards Specialist; outlining the processes of building a project with the highest integrity for the market;

  2. Katja van Overeem, Blayne Lees and Ben Smith of the Data teams; explaining Agreena's work to ensure integrity of on-farm data capture at scale.

  3. Dr Petros Georgiadis, Dr Marcos Alves and Dr Andrew Manderson from the Agreena Science and Statistical teams; unravelling the methodology to calculate soil carbon credits through sampling and modelling together;

Roberta McDonald, Head of Programme

From credit to credibility: The importance of data verification

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From credit to credibility: Quantifying and creating high-integrity carbon credits

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