CO2 Certification
The carbon market was established as a mechanism to manage, regulate, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by merging environmental responsibility with financial incentives. Biochar has emerged as one of the best solution for carbon offsetting. Developing practical and cost-effective biochar carbon credit standards is essential for integrating biochar into carbon trading systems, fostering investment in the industry, and advancing sustainable carbon sequestration practices worldwide.
Each Carbon credit is sold on a partner exchange, here is a selection that specialise in Biochar credits, they all highlight biochar's potential in carbon sequestration.
Puro.Earth
World’s leading crediting platform for engineered carbon removal
We are on a mission to mobilize the economy to reward carbon net negative emissions. We help voluntary corporate buyers accelerate carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at an industrial global scale. We do this through the Puro Standard, the world’s first standard focused solely on carbon removal that durably stores carbon from the atmosphere for 100+ years.
Learn more about the different carbon removal methods and how we certify suppliers that physically remove carbon from the atmosphere through the Puro Standard.
Puro.earth started from the realization that there is too much CO2 in the atmosphere and we already have carbon net-negative technologies that are able to capture and store it. However, a business model for carbon removal with these technologies was missing.
VERRA
Verra sets the world’s leading standards for climate action and sustainable development. → We build standards for activities as diverse as reducing deforestation, improving agricultural practices, addressing plastic waste, and achieving gender equality. → We manage programs to certify that these activities achieve measurable high-integrity outcomes. → And we work with governments, businesses, and civil society to advance the use of these standards, including through the development of markets. Everything we do is in service of increasingly ambitious climate and sustainable development goals – and an accelerated transition to a sustainable future.
Verra sets the world’s leading standards for climate action and sustainable development. Everything we do is in service of increasingly ambitious climate and sustainable development goals – and an accelerated transition to a sustainable future.
Sylvera
At Sylvera, everything we do is built for impact. We started with a vision to bridge the gap between climate ambition and real corporate action, in a world where businesses struggle with fragmented data and outdated infrastructure around net zero. For us, impact demanded more. So we set out to build the data infrastructure needed to transform climate strategy into real actionable investments and corporate strategy—from the ground up.
Building the data infrastructure needed to transform climate strategy
Carbon Standards
Carbon Standards International develops standards and system solutions for climate-positive agriculture, forestry and industry and upstream, and downstream sectors. Carbon Standards International offers a wide range of services with quality, reliability, and customer benefit at their heart. Carbon Standards International makes an important contribution to the achievement of balanced carbon cycles and cooling of the climate. With the European Biochar Certificate (EBC) we lead the way in the development and introduction of good practice in agriculture, forestry and industry in relation to the production and use of biochar.
Our systems are based on scientific findings and are credible for our licence holders, our customers and their customers, consumers, the media and the general public. We collaborate with leading scientific institutions and agencies on these issues.
Gold Standard
Founded in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs, Gold Standard has always been a pioneer in raising ambition. Originally created to ensure the highest levels of environmental integrity and sustainable development outcomes for the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism, we continue to demonstrate leadership for high-quality and high-integrity in the voluntary carbon market, while using our two decades of experience to evolve and innovate to serve wider needs.
Gold Standard for the Global Goals is an innovative impact standard bringing high-level integrity and credibility to the most important global goal of our time: climate security and sustainable development.
