The Regenerative Standard is an accessible and science-based program to increase trust and usability of the voluntary carbon market to maximize regenerative outcomes:
Our mission is to provide rigorous, straight-forward protocols for nature-based solutions.
The Regenerative Standard accelerates nature-positive climate action at scale. Our mission is to provide rigorous, straight-forward protocols for nature-based solutions beginning with soil carbon storage.
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The Regenerative Standard’s inaugural protocol is the Soil Carbon Quantification Method, which supports high-quality soil carbon credit generation in a way that is more easily accessible to nature-based project developers and stewards of rangeland, grassland, agricultural, and conservation lands.
The Regenerative Standard’s inaugural protocol is the Soil Carbon Quanitification Method, which supports high-quality soil carbon credit generation in a way that is more easily accessible to nature-based project developers and stewards of rangeland, grassland, agricultural, and conservation lands.
The Regenerative Standard is a welcomed solution to rescue the earth’s climate and other failing ecosystem services. We look forward to a common sense, pragmatic, open and tenaciously disciplined, science-based program to help move land stewards and markets to restoring the earth, food supplies, water, and biodiversity resources.
Steve Apfelbaum,
Founder and Chairman, Applied Ecological Institute
The Regenerative Standard is governed by Applied Ecological Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our vision is to understand the needs of land stewards by providing straightforward protocols that are backed by science, to incentivize and scale regenerative land management and restoration practices to create carbon drawdown offsets, provide reliable, defensible carbon storage, and deliver benefits beyond carbon. We also offer a registry that certifies high-quality, measured carbon drawdown offsets with the full transparency and auditability expected by carbon buyers.
Nature-based carbon solutions are necessary to rapidly scale the participation and incentivize land steward behavior and performance changes to address the climate mitigation needs.
Many standards describe how carbon credits from nature-based carbon storage can be generated. However, few standards combine a strong emphasis on carbon removal credit quality while also making it easier for landowners to participate in nature-based carbon storage opportunities at scale.
The Regenerative Standard was created to
Project Developers and Land Stewards - who manage ecological impact projects, track ecological assets, and issue carbon offsets and credits.
Verifiers and Validators - who confirm that all emission reductions or removals are quantified according to the Standard’s requirements.
Corporations and Individuals - who mitigate environmental degradation as an approach to corporate social responsibility and achieve their climate accord commitments.
Methodology Designers and Scientists - who define and govern ecological asset standards.