Approval Process
To gain UKCCC certification as a high-integrity project producing high-integrity nature credits, landholders need to follow a strict approval process. UKCCC can verify and certify projects that join at later stages by checking that they align at point of entry.

Find the right Project Developer

Design the project
The first thing a project developer will do is to walk over the landholding and come up with a suite of ideas for what can be achieved on the landholding. From a move to regenerative agriculture, tree planting and wetland creation to biochar production and use, agroforestry and habitat creation there is the opportunity to ensure all natural capital assets are optimised to generate and sell credits wherever a positive change has taken place, financed by the issuance and sale of carbon credits. Project developers will continually work with project hosts to further improve the project outcomes and reduce emissions and increase carbon removal over a long period of time.

Establish a baseline

Complete the Project Reports

Project Approval
In the approval process, the UKCCC establishes the number of credits that can be issued. Some will be needed to ensure the landholding achieves Net Zero. Once Net Zero has been established, the UKCCC will certify that position and it can be used by the landholding to sell produce at Net Zero, satisfying supply chain Scope 3 emissions. There will be an uncertainty buffer applied to each project where a number of credits are held back by the UKCCC until a successful 5-year verification process has been conducted after which the buffer credits, less 3% held permanently in the UKCCC National Reserve, are released.

Carbon Tracking
