Think you're just a sustainability professional? Think again. In the eyes of the law, your well-meaning advice could unintentionally qualify as forestry advice. Let's explore how to navigate these waters without getting tripped up. You’re the Head of Sustainability for a meat processor and exporter, responsible for delivering ambitious sustainability targets—a 30% reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050.  With over 95% of your Scope 3 emissions stemming from your network of sheep and beef farmer suppliers, the challenge is, frankly, steep. But emissions from behind the farm gate also ..read more

Curious about CarbonCrop's tech? Dive into our platform with us! Get an exclusive walkthrough by our Engineering Team Lead and see firsthand how we streamline forest carbon removal measurement, reporting, and verification. Nick  Welcome to another session of Carbon Curious. This one is titled, perhaps somewhat sort of vaguely and generally, “How does our tech work?”  We've got a lot of tech. We're only talking about a tiny fraction of that tech today, but I have with me Hannes Hill, who's our head of engineering, and he is going to be running you through a bunch of specific proce ..read more

We’re excited to share the latest from the CarbonCrop platform this month. FieldScan Update New Features Bug Fixes FieldScan photos on map Keeping track of 100s of field photos is a pain. CarbonCrop now lets you organise and see photos directly in the platform. Upload photos directly, or use FieldScan to take geotagged photos. New Features ETS Submitted Keep track of your submitted forest areas and avoid possible mistakes. Forest areas can now be marked as “Submitted” to help managing your ETS projects. Shortcuts for historical imagery To help map across time, you can now ..read more

Increasingly, primary sector companies face pressure from consumers, clients, and regulatory bodies to decarbonise their supply chains. But the good news for New Zealand primary sector businesses is that the secret to solving your Scope 3 emissions is hiding in plain sight — right within your supply chain. Carbon removals from native forests on private farmland in New Zealand represent an enormous opportunity for primary sector businesses to decarbonise their supply chains, reduce their scope 3 emissions footprints, strengthen supplier relationships, and make a positive environmental impac ..read more

We’re excited to share the latest from the CarbonCrop platform this month. New Features Bug Fixes Coming Up New Features Filter Tasks Want to know about all Emissions Returns awaiting landholder input? Task filters let you do just that, to focus on a certain part of a task lifecycle. Export Tasks Tasks can be exported to a CSV! Simply click on the export view button in the "Task" view to download your tasks into This lets you track and report on progress over time. Task Assignees Tasks can now be assigned to any other user in your company. You’ll find this feature when you c ..read more

What is carbon accounting? Carbon accounting is a method to count, track, and report your organisation's greenhouse gas (GHG) position. This is also known as your organisation’s carbon footprint. Carbon accounting frameworks recognise both greenhouse gas emissions and removals which your business is responsible for. Just like with your financial accounts, a key principle of carbon accounting is the continuity and consistency of your accounts. Any emission and removal must only be recognised once, and there are rules around how the emissions footprints of different businesses relate to each ..read more

In our collective effort against climate change, every action counts. Climate-smart forestry stands out as a strategy, blending environmental stewardship with economic sustainability. This concept doesn’t just revolve around planting trees for carbon credits; it’s about creating forests that actively combat climate change, improve resilience, and support economic growth. Here’s how it works and why it matters, especially for those involved in New Zealand's food and fibre sectors and looking to engage with carbon markets. Understanding Climate-Smart Forestry Climate-smart forestry is a hol ..read more

https://youtu.be/q6Eo7kFX1bU Nick All right, we've just gone 12.30pm on my watch. We've still got quite a few people trickling in, but I think we've got a huge session today for a lot to cover depending on how much Jamie and I talk, which with past experience as a guide is probably going to be a lot. So I'm actually going to get started now and I'm sure people will be able to pick up the thread as they join. So welcome to Carbon Curious. Today we are talking about How we get climate smart forests and kind of as a, as a related factor, why we would want to get climate smart forests and why they ..read more

CarbonCrop co-founder, Nick Butcher, joins Sarah Perriam-Lampp for a discussion around CarbonCrop, forest carbon removals, and questions how would you go about to calculate a credit on the living ecosystem nuance of ‘biodiversity’ into a unit that can be traded for monetary value. Listen to the episode or read the transcript below. Interview starts at ,27:20 CarbonCrop Interview Transcript - The Country Wide Podcast Sarah Now, I wanted to jump in and talk to the Carbon Crop team with regards to the whole technology that's been developed rapidly in the last couple of years.  Where landowne ..read more

CarbonCrop monitors and verifies carbon removals at scale. It’s complicated technology, and many of our customers — typically large primary-sector businesses like meat and dairy organisations — have questions about how it works. So here, we’re taking a peek under the hood and answering your questions. How we measure carbon stocks CarbonCrop calculates carbon stock data primarily through remote sensing — mostly through aerial imagery (taken by aeroplanes), but also with a little help from data from Sentinel-2, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency. We also input data from ..read more