Agoro Carbon uses a scientifically robust approach for quantifying the accumulation of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks on your land due to practice changes over the course of your contract, to issue credits to be sold in the voluntary market. Our methods follow the measure and model approach, approved by Verra. We use best-in-class MRV (measure, report, and verification) procedures to measure SOC changes using a rigorous soil sampling strategy and lab analysis of soil samples for SOC by certified third-party labs.

Samples are collected in years 1, 5, and 10 of the contracts, allowing us to establish baseline SOC values before practice change, and measure the accumulation of SOC stocks over time due to practice change, permitting us to issue credits over the 10-year contract period.
In between soil sampling events, we use the DayCent biogeochemical model to estimate the yearly accumulation of SOC stocks (approved VM0042 methodology) and issue carbon credits between soil sampling events.