Four checks before you invest in a soil carbon project
CSRD scope narrowed in 2026, but LSR arrives in January 2027. What separates agricultural Scope 3 data an assurer accepts from data they cannot test.
Soil carbon and water: correcting a figure the sector repeats
A 0.1% soil carbon gain does not hold 200,000 litres per hectare. The soil-mass arithmetic, the measured figure, and what soil carbon really buffers.
Soil sampling design: how many samples do you actually need?
Sample count follows from your confidence level and minimum detectable difference - not from a fixed ratio. What stratification changes, and what it cannot.
What soil carbon MRV actually costs - and what cannot get cheaper
Verification usually takes 25–50% of a soil carbon project's budget. Across 8,845 ha of ESA pilots, stratified sampling brought it to 4.1% of credit revenue.
Where soil carbon credit revenue actually comes from
Practice is spreading faster than proof. Sequestration uncertainty bands, reversibility, and why permanence provisions matter more than a single measurement.
How big is the carbon farming market? Which numbers are real
Trillion-dollar carbon figures describe allowance trading, not the voluntary market where soil carbon sits. What the July 2026 CRCF methodologies changed.
What Verra's VT0014 actually permits for digital soil mapping
VT0014 changes the soil core's job from measuring an average to validating a model. What that does to cost, and the three risks that move with it.