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CARBON WORLDS
New Methodology for Use in Grassland and Farmland Soil Carbon Offset Projects
by Staff Writers
Emeryville, CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2013


The VM0021 Soil Carbon Quantification Methodology is based on decades of soil carbon research and testing conducted by top soil scientists.

SCS Global Services (SCS) has evaluated a new modular methodology for measuring the carbon sequestration ability of soil under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), a leading greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting system.

The methodology, developed by The Earth Partners, will allow land managers who sequester GHGs in grasslands, rangelands and farmlands to generate carbon credits for sale in the voluntary market.

Managers of grasslands, rangelands and farmlands can increase carbon sequestration in soil by practices such as limiting erosion, changing grazing practices and implementing treatments designed to improve the diversity and productivity of plant communities.

The Earth Partners is currently piloting this methodology with farmers across seven million acres of the Palouse River and Columbia Plateau regions in the Pacific Northwest.

"The VCS program has achieved an important milestone in now incorporating grassland and rangeland carbon offset projects within its scope," said Dr. Robert J. Hrubes, Executive Vice President of SCS.

"SCS looks forward to validating and verifying agricultural carbon offset projects that use this very robust new methodology."

The VM0021 Soil Carbon Quantification Methodology is based on decades of soil carbon research and testing conducted by top soil scientists.

The methodology was developed by The Earth Partners and validated by Environmental Services, Inc. as well as SCS Global Services. It is the first soil carbon methodology to be approved for use under the VCS.

"This extensively tested methodology is the first to exclusively address soils within a marketplace framework, facilitating the rebuilding of soil carbon levels at meaningfully large landscape scales of natural and agricultural ecosystems," said Steven I. Apfelbaum, Chairman of Applied Ecological Services, Inc. and Director of Science with The Earth Partners.

According to Apfelbaum, soils represent the second largest living sink of carbon on the planet.

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