With scientific data and
satellite image interpretation,
we help rangeland managers across the world
store carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in soils
and generate carbon credit
revenue.
Increasingly, industries need to “offset” their excessive greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet government-imposed limits. This has generated the emerging “carbon market,” which currently involves over $1 billion US in exchanges and is expected to eventually reach $1 trillion.
Managing natural landscapes to generate carbon credits is a potentially financially lucrative enterprise. We help landholders participate in this market by generating soil carbon credits through:
We are pioneering the way for landholders of rangelands, such as uncultivated grasslands, shrublands and savannas, to sell carbon credits generated by storing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, as organic matter in soils. Landholders of rangelands generate credits by adopting land use practices, such as wildlife conservation, sustainable livestock grazing, fire management, and grassland restoration that can increase the amount of carbon dioxide stored in soils. These land use practices can be “certified” by carbon markets, such as the Verified Carbon Standard, if there is a strong connection between the land use and storage of carbon dioxide, and if the occurrence of the land use can be verified over a period of years.