Transition your almond farm to regenerative agriculture through our Carbon+ Program

To participate in Carbon+, we first need to understand if your farm is eligible for our service. To do that, the first step is for you to fill out our online form with some basic information about your farm and its location.

If your farm meets our requirements (of size, climate, and land use – see below), you will have access to an online questionnaire. Here, we ask you to enter information about the ownership situation of the agricultural land and your farm practices. This will allow us to estimate the CO2 sequestration potential of your farm and potential carbon credit generation.

If you decide to start with carbon farming, we will ask you to agree to the Terms & Conditions of our service and sign an individual contract. The conditions entail what is required for emitting carbon credits within the project period as well as any consequences of leaving the Carbon+ service before the end of the project.

The voluntary and compliance carbon markets are two distinct carbon trading systems with different objectives, prices, participants, and rules. The compliance carbon market is driven by government regulations that require companies in specific high-emission sectors to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to comply with a specific target. On the other hand, the voluntary carbon market is driven by organisations and individuals who voluntarily choose to offset their emissions or invest in carbon credits to support sustainability goals.

Climate Farmers’ Carbon+ Credits are sold on the voluntary carbon market. Companies buy the credits that are generated from farmers sequestering carbon on their agricultural land.

There are no hidden or upfront costs in the Carbon+ Program. The payments are calculated by multiplying the amount of generated and issued carbon credits with the price realised per credit. Climate Farmers keeps a 35% commission on all Carbon credits sold. A determined percentage of the carbon credits will be kept in a buffer pool (see “What are buffer certificates? ” for details).

To get an idea of how much you’ll be able to earn, you fill out a simple form, providing some details about your farm and practices. Based on those inputs you’ll receive a first estimate of your earnings. This includes a minimum and maximum value to account for natural fluctuations in climate and plant growth.

Please keep in mind that the payments are calculated based on the amount of avoided and sequestered carbon, which will only be calculated after each yearly monitoring period. The payment can also be zero, if the net amount of avoided and sequestered carbon for the farm is zero or negative in a given year. You are capable of improving your results, and therefore you can directly influence the amount of money you receive.We are committed to ensuring you can get the best price available on the voluntary carbon market.

To join the Carbon+ Program, your farm should meet the following requirements:

• Your land is used for arable crops, silvopasture, grasslands, or tree crops. Peatlands are not eligible.
• Your farm should have at least 40 hectares of eligible agricultural land. This area should be owned, or if it is leased, the leasing contract should be of at least 5 years, covering the full crediting period.
• You must intend to or have recently started to implement practices that either sequester carbon in the soil or reduce the general emissions of the farm. Read more about the practices that we include here.
• The farm must be located in one of the pedoclimatic zones Mediterranean North or Mediterranean South. This roughly coincides with the countries Spain, Portugal and Italy. We are constantly expanding this area, so you can join the waiting list even if you do
  not fulfil this criterion.

To check eligibility, fill in this 1 min survey.