Puro.earth, one of the major standard and registry providers in carbon removal, has launched a registry for environmental attributes, expanding its market infrastructure beyond engineered carbon removal and initially focusing on agricultural carbon intensity.
Perdue Farms and Arva Intelligence will be the first adopters of the new Environmental Attributes Registry. Both are also founding members of an industry initiative seeking to establish an environmental board of trade, or EBOT, to develop common governance and standards for environmental attribute markets.
The registry will record verified field-level data and provide information on the origin, ownership, transfer history, retirement status and eligibility of environmental claims.
Puro.earth said the system is intended to improve traceability and reduce the risk of double counting across agricultural supply chains. Its initial application will track agricultural carbon intensity, with additional environmental-attribute categories planned for 2027.
New Framework Targets Agricultural Claims
The EBOT initiative is being formed to develop common approaches to measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), technology-based verification and market infrastructure for environmental attributes generated through regenerative agriculture.
Its initial scope includes Scope 3 insetting claims, verification certificates supporting the U.S. Section 45Z clean-fuel tax credit, voluntary carbon credits and environmental co-benefit claims.
For agricultural carbon intensity, the registry will use MillPont’s Environmental Trust Infrastructure geospatial system to establish field-level provenance and cross-check claims. This will create a record that can be used by buyers, auditors and regulators before environmental attributes are transacted or reported.
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Puro.earth will initially attest that third-party methodologies are correctly implemented. The company said it may eventually develop its own agricultural regenerative methodologies.
“Agricultural supply chains need a system that is transparent, credible and functional,” said Ben Hildebrand, director of sustainability at Perdue Farms.
The EBOT initiative is still being formed, with its governance, membership structure and methodology-approval process to be finalized.
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