We specialize in connecting landowners in Ohio with consumers interested in supporting their storage of soil organic carbon, educating networks of landowners who are participating in nature-based carbon storage activities, adopting a science-based approach to creating accurate measures for carbon storage, and employing labor who value and are trained in the application of scientific principles to carbon storage and markets.
We offer an exceptional evaluation of the potential for soil carbon storage and greenhouse gas emission mitigation in Ohio soils through regenerative farming and land management practices. Through our benefit corporation, we will work with you to learn more about the growing global voluntary and pre-compliance carbon offset markets and to increase the opportunity for farmers to achieve the highest levels of soil carbon storage in Ohio.
Our first step in offering premium soil carbon storage payments is through the RCPP project (ID: 2794) Financing Climate Smart Agriculture in Ohio’s Miami Valley. Details about this project are available at the RCPP page.
A performance-based determination of soil organic carbon capture will be based upon the opportunity for carbon storage in a soil in order to establish a fair and equitable mechanism to compensate farmers for soil carbon enhancing practices. Following the course of leading-edge science (such as Paterson et al., 2021; Emde et al., 2022; Sokol et al., 2022), our system does not only refer to the amount of carbon built up over time since the start of the evaluation period (the most commonly used measure of additionality), but considers historical performance of carbon capture through the evaluation of the soil organic carbon saturation deficit.
The storage performance approach represents the equitable mechanism to compensate farmers for exceptional regenerative farming. Storage performance is determined across diverse agricultural management scenarios and soil conditions comprising Ohio’s main physiographic regions.
Here is a conceptual diagram of the soil organic carbon performance evaluation, at levels of 10%, 50% and 90%, using soil texture (clay + silt) as a proxy for storage capacity. This method was informed by today’s leading soil science research and uniquely created by the one.two.five Benefit Corporation.
