This is why the UKCCC has been developed, a reaction to what we percieved as weaknesses in the marketplace. Transparency is key as is projects that issue credits being net zero before selling, monitored by a physical annual visit and creating accurate project boundaries.

As well as ensuring the project host is at net zero before selling carbon credits, UKCCC approval ensures that biodiversity enhancement and connectivity has been built into the project. #ClimateAction to the #ClimateCrisis #biodiversity #NetZero #SDGs #carboncredits

The UKCCC calculates all emissions and all sequestration from all natural capital assests, certifies the net zero position, charts the journey and only allows the sale of carbon credits once the landholding has reached net zero.

Negative outcomes are avoided by well designed projects at the outset accompanied by annual monitoring

Leakage can only be avoided by having oversite of an entire landholding business, calculating all emissions and all sequestration to ensure no increase in emissions as a result of the project.

You can only ensure additonality with a change in management that has led to reduced emissions and increased sequestration of atmospheric carbon. Permanance is only assured through long term projects, where the land manager remains engaged in the process for years

Here we have the ICVCM core carbon principles. The UKCCC designed these into its standards as its inception to ensure that it only issued the most robust credits and to ensure additionality, permanence, avoided leakage & avoided negative outcomes 🧵

The UKCCC project process identifies and helps to place potential BNG credits on a national register so that developers can do just that, pick the ones they want off the shelf....

The UKCCC doesn't want to buy them, it simply issues and places the on the register upon approval, its up to you when you sell and to whom.

Completely agree. The UKCCC helps unlock the opportunity in all of a farms natural capital assets, not just soil... What we do know is that adopting the practices that sequester the most C also improve food production returns as well.

It is self regulated at the moment but gvmt will likely have an oversite function soon. The code is aligned with other global standards and continues to adapt in line.

Not necessarily required to but they certainly have the ability to..

Gvmt are likely to act in an oversite capacity, ensuring that claims are robust and valid. The finance world will do the same and insurance schemes are already looking at a star rating for offsets issued from various codes.

yes it does through the project development process..

Good question, eventually they will be obliged to reach net zero by law. reducing nitrogen use is one of the best things a farm can do to reduce carbon and increase profits. There are many great examples of farmers cutting usage by upto 75% and maintaining yields....

Not at all. Everyone will be obliged to hit net zero. Farmers are magnificently placed to get there with plenty of excess offsets to sell. Through the project development process, farmers are helped to reduce their emissions to help maximise the opportunity & secure margins.

The UKCCC sets out to align with current best practice and UK Climate Change Committee latest advice. The aim it to issue the most robust offsets in the marketplace giving assurance to the entire supply chain.

The code is much more than a calculator, it is a central set of standards that enables a whole landholdings natural capital assets to be entered into a project from which offsets can be sold once net zero achieved. There is no official line YET...

funded by project approval fees. Board members still being appointed and it has been designed by farmers, land managers, tech, finance and insurance experts & is backed by academic verification. It is very much about putting farmers in control, whilst ensuring robust standards

The UK Carbon Code will certify a farms net zero position once reached. This will ensure a farms scope 3 obligations to the food supply chain are met. Any offsets beyond net zero can be sold #NetZeroWeek We advise against putting control of your carbon into the hands of retailers