What if carbon credits worked like a New Year’s gym membership that actually changes habits? Carbon Yards creates new forest growth through sustainable management—not carbon accounting tricks.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping nature-based carbon projects, from satellite data processing to real-time forest monitoring. While AI can improve efficiency and support project integrity, human expertise remains essential to ensure accuracy, accountability, and responsible use
Carbon Yards implements the framework from The Reconstruction of Carbon Outcomes by separating carbon generation from carbon preservation into two distinct, complementary functions. Carbon is generated through additional sequestration in regenerating forests supported by sustainable harvesting, while permanence is delivered through engineered storage systems that securely retain biomass and establish clear, undisputed carbon rights. This architecture produces carbon outcomes that are more durable, auditable, and aligned with emerging expectations for high-quality biomass carbon removal.
The Reconstruction of Carbon Outcomes introduces a new framework for addressing the buyers’ paradox in the voluntary carbon market—the persistent trade-off between affordable credits and credible climate impact. The paper explains how this paradox emerges from a structural flaw: the expectation that a single project must both create new climate benefit (additionality) and preserve it for the long term (permanence). By separating these two functions into independent generative and preservative activities, the framework enables lower costs, stronger durability, clearer accountability, and scalable integrity. This new architecture shows how carbon outcomes can be designed for both credibility and affordability, unlocking more efficient carbon markets and more durable climate impact.
Across the U.S. Southeast, the sharp decline in pulpwood demand has left millions of forested acres overcrowded and stressed, driving rising wildfire risk, declining forest health, and economic hardship for rural communities. EP Carbon introduces a new engineered carbon removal model that restores forest health, strengthens rural economies, and delivers durable, high-integrity carbon storage: Carbon Yards. Carbon Yards provides a permanent and transparent end-use pathway for low-value biomass that currently has no market, preventing decomposition or burning while enabling the forest restoration treatments that landowners can no longer afford. By creating a durable and additional carbon removal solution, Carbon Yards revives the economic foundation for sustainable forest management, unlocks natural regeneration, reduces fire risk, and supports rural livelihoods. Carbon Yards represents a paradigm shift in how nature-based carbon removal can be delivered at scale, creating transparent, measurable, and long-lived carbon outcomes that buyers can confidently support. See what EP Carbon is doing to help rebuild forest health and deliver long-lived climate impact!
As the world surpasses 1.5°C of warming, high-integrity carbon markets have never been more essential. Learn how carbon credits work, the difference between compliance and voluntary markets, and why investing in reductions and removals is critical to global climate goals.
The Integrity Council’s approval of Verra’s VM0047 methodology represents a major step forward for high-quality nature-based carbon projects. At EP Carbon, we’re encouraged by how VM0047 enhances transparency and scientific rigor through the use of dynamic performance benchmarks—leveraging remote sensing data to create more accurate and adaptive baselines for reforestation and revegetation. The upcoming version 1.1 expands opportunities for projects on degraded forest land and integrates with wetland restoration methodologies, improving both credibility and impact. These advancements align with EP Carbon’s commitment to developing robust, high-integrity carbon projects that deliver lasting climate benefits.
Innovative tools are boosting confidence in carbon markets. Better data and lower costs means a greater variety of projects may consequently gain access to carbon markets.
As the trajectory of reductions credit plateaus, removals are taking the spotlight. With 15+ years of experience, EP Carbon ensures projects meet the highest standards for climate impact while guiding developers through Verra’s VM0047 to build trusted, impactful climate projects.
Read on as we address the co-benefits offered by the implementation of Nature-Based offsets, with particular emphasis on their importance for forests. The question we want to analyze is: what implications do Nature-Based offsets have for forests or natural ecosystems beyond their global climate contribution?
EP Carbon values the hard work each member of our team provides. Read along to meet some of our staff and their contributions to the 2024 year!
EP Carbon provides technical services and support to projects at every stage of the development cycle in order to unlock opportunities and open the doors to long-term, durable solutions for communities and climate benefits. For years, we have been advocates of integrity in the carbon market, as our project portfolio clearly emphasizes.
A major challenge exists that there is no single, universally accepted standard for assessing carbon credit quality. This makes it difficult for buyers to compare projects and ensure they’re paying a fair price for the environmental benefits that credits represent. At EP Carbon we pride ourselves on the quality and transparency we bring to our projects.
Indigenous communities are not only stakeholders and participants, but indispensable leaders. This blog explores the need for Indigenous Peoples’ inclusion in carbon project design and development and highlights their supremely important role in contributing to climate change mitigation.
At EP Carbon, we start from a fundamental principle: no project, however beneficial it may seem, should proceed without the fully informed consent of the local authorities and communities. Read below to see the importance and how we follow through on that promise.
Discover how balancing both conservation and restoration projects is crucial for sustainable carbon projects.
Theory of Change in a project’s design phase is crucial for delivering long-term climate, community, and biodiversity impacts. Read more to learn how EP Carbon’s experience designing and bringing successful projects to the voluntary market allow for us to leverage TOC.
Discover how using advanced remote sensing technologies are enhancing project quality in forest carbon initiatives.
Discover how Verra’s programmatic shifts are enhancing project quality in forest carbon initiatives. Learn about new methodologies, baseline reforms, and strategic partnerships aimed at boosting transparency and credibility in the voluntary carbon market.
Learn how “Activity Data” is used in VM0048 to define baseline emissions and improve the quality of REDD projects through consistent…
Discover how EP Carbon utilizes Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) projects to restore degraded landscapes worldwide, ensuring quality, permanence, and scalable carbon removals.
Discover how EP Carbon stands out in the carbon market by delivering high-quality, transparent, and community-focused carbon projects. Learn about their commitment to sustainability, addressing market critiques, and setting industry standards for excellence.
