Audit coverage and continuous monitoring: closing the gap
Audit programmes visit a sample of farms; claims cover all of them. What continuous monitoring closes, and the three things it genuinely cannot do.
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 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.
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.