News.

Published: 9th December 2024

Social Carbon Foundation announces the release of its groundbreaking Insetting Framework for public consultation, running from 9 December 2024 to 31 January 2025. Designed to address a critical gap in the insetting space, this groundbreaking framework provides clear, actionable guidance for Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG) project types, fully aligned with the GHG Protocol Scope 3.

Published: 1st November 2024

The Social Carbon Foundation is proud to share its whitepaper introducing its groundbreaking Nature Stewardship Credits (NSCs)- a new transformative environmental asset designed to value holistic impacts from nature-based solutions (NbS). NSCs integrate biodiversity, socio-economic impact, and governance metrics to recognise the full spectrum of benefits that conservation, restoration, and sustainable land management can offer.

Published: 28th October 2024

Social Carbon Foundationis excited to announce the launch of its innovative SOCIALCARBON Portal, a robust digital platform designed to streamline and modernise the certification process for carbon offset projects. This new portal marks a significant advancement in the industry by digitising all SOCIALCARBON methodologies and revolutionising the Project Description Document (PDD) process. 

Published: 16th October 2024

Social Carbon Foundation and Natural State announce a new partnership to transform the landscape of nature-based solutions through the development of a first-of-its-kind environmental asset—Nature Stewardship Credits. These innovative, modular credits are designed to accelerate restoration and conservation efforts on a global scale by blending biodiversity and social impact into a robust and measurable credit system.

Published: 5th September 2024

Read the full interview and learn how Social Carbon catalyses scalable nature-based solutions to combat climate change, enhance biodiversity, and support sustainable livelihoods.

Published: 16th August 2024

SOCIALCARBON publishes a new methodology and module for the restoration of peatland. The first module enables the quantification of emission reductions from the rewetting of drained peatland on agricultural land in temperate climatic regions.

Published: 14th June 2024

The first issuance of carbon credits under the SOCIALCARBON Standard was completed by BlueGreen Water Technologies, treating the toxic algae bloom occurring at the Mantua Reservoir in Utah resulted in the issuance of ~13,000 verified carbon credits.

Published: 24th April 2024

SOCIALCARBON launches a new methodology for ARR, replacing this historical CDM ARR methodologies previously accepted by the standard.

On the 1st March 2023, SOCIALCARBON was endorsed by ICROA. ICROA Accredited Organisations will be able to use SOCIALCARBON credits with immediate effect.

This represents a big milestone from the Standard, validating its quality and supporting the project developers using the Standard to develop projects that benefit people and planet.

On the 17th February 2023, we published a new methodology for the treatment of harmful algae blooms in freshwater. This is the first of its kind and opens up new opportunity for water-based carbon sequestration projects.