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Services for carbon project developers

Before registration, carbon project developers need land that meets an approved methodology's applicability conditions, a defensible baseline and documented land rights.

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Without them, a validation and verification body cannot sign off, and the land may never issue credits.

We help you decide which land to commit capital to before you spend on design, then build the verification-ready evidence a project needs at registration and at each issuance. Earthbanc is itself a registered Verra project developer (VCS4626), and we run projects on the ground.

Where we help carbon project developers

  • Pre-feasibility screening of candidate land, so ineligible sites drop out before you pay for a feasibility study
  • Feasibility studies that find registration problems before design starts: methodology fit, baseline approach and the land tenure evidence a buyer or verifier will ask for
  • Planting and monitoring design for the project area, built around your chosen methodology
  • Dated, geotagged photographs and field task records, captured offline in Earthbanc Camera and Earthbanc Ops. Verifiers now expect this evidence as standard.
  • Verification-ready monitoring data and reports for your validation and verification body, from Earthbanc’s MRV solution
  • Carbon project development support through registration and issuance, including the project design document and the evidence buyers ask for before contract

One workflow, starting at Identify

Our work for nature-based carbon project developers runs as one workflow: Identify, Plan, Execute and Report. Identify comes first: screening and feasibility before any design, because site eligibility, land rights, baseline approach and host-country readiness are hard to fix once design is under way.

At Plan, we draw up the planting and monitoring design for the methodology you will register under, and cost the monitoring before planting begins.

At Execute, your field teams capture geotagged photographs and task records on site, offline where there is no signal.

At Report, our nature-based solutions MRV work turns that evidence into monitoring data and reports. Your validation and verification body can trace each record back to where and when it was captured.

Bamboo fence marking a parcel boundary beside a hillside prepared for planting.

What needs to be measured, and how

Screening outputs are modelled estimates, not field measurements. They show whether candidate land is likely to be eligible and roughly how much carbon it could generate.

For a reforestation carbon project developer working under Verra's VM0047 methodology for afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR), credited removals depend on direct field measurement, with remote sensing used for relative stock change.

Field plots are measured to the registered methodology and checked by the validation and verification body, which re-measures where the registry requires it. We only call a result field-measured when plots were actually measured, so your report stands up to the verifier's own checks.

Our guide to VM0047 data requirements lists the data an ARR project must hold, and our carbon MRV service covers monitoring after registration.

Field worker taking a photograph on a phone at a planting site.

Who this is for

This work is for commercial carbon and nature-based project developers, who contract the validation and verification body and carry registration and issuance risk. Some buyers set thresholds before contract: an advanced project design document, completed pilot planting, a dynamic baseline, land tenure documents and benefit-sharing plans. Feasibility covers the baseline approach and tenure evidence, Plan and Execute produce the pilot planting records, and development support covers the project design document.

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How the work is scoped and charged

Screening and feasibility are scoped as studies, per site, and priced before work starts. Earthbanc software solutions are charged by subscription, per organisation. Field delivery is scoped and charged per project.

Registry fees and the independent validation and verification audit sit outside our scope and are paid by the project proponent. Registry fees do not cover the audit, which is a separate cost.