Soil carbon credits, sourced and documented for buyers whose choices will be scrutinised
Whether you're navigating CSRD, building a credible BVCM strategy, or telling your customers a true farmer story, we curate verified European soil carbon credits and deliver the full documentation pack.
What we hear most often
Three concerns that come up in every first conversation. We get it, and here's how we organise ourselves around them.
The market remains hard to navigate
Assessing credit quality has become a full-time job: standards, methodologies, additionality, registries, integrity frameworks. Our job is to do that filtering for you, and to explain transparently what we kept and why.
Your file will be scrutinised
CSRD auditor, internal sustainability team, board, press, NGOs: the documentation of your credits must hold up against all of them. We structure every transaction at the level of detail expected, ready to be presented.
Your story must hold up under public scrutiny
Your consumers, partners, and employees will want to understand concretely what you're funding. Our farms are identifiable, geolocated, measured. You can literally name a farmer, show a photo of their field.
Four profiles we work with
Find yourself. The documentation pack, the narrative and the assessment lens differ depending on your situation.
Audit-ready documentation, structured for ESRS E1-7
You report under CSRD. Every carbon credit decision will be examined by your auditor and your sustainability committee. We deliver a pack already structured to ESRS E1-7: type, methodology, geography, permanence, retirement proofs.
Credits that hold up against board, NGO and investor scrutiny
You are building a multi-year removal portfolio aligned with SBTi, CDP and the new California SB-253 disclosure regime. We curate European soil carbon credits structured around ICVCM Core Carbon Principles and VCMI claims language, with farm-level traceability ready for the next disclosure cycle.
Climate leadership outside your value chain, today
Your SBTi pathway is set. The BVCM framework now asks you to fund, today, climate projects outside your scope 1, 2, 3, complementing, never replacing, your reduction pathway. We build that portfolio around removal-leaning European soil credits, with the documentation to back the claim.
A story your customers can verify
Food, beverage, fashion, beauty: your customers want to know whose field they're funding. Our farms are geolocated, named, photographed. You can name a farmer, show their plot, share a measurable soil-carbon outcome, and stand behind every word in public.
How we move forward together
Our work starts with listening. Every climate journey is unique, every organization has its own constraints and ambitions.
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We listen to your context
Where are you in your climate journey? What are your obligations (CSRD, SBTi, voluntary)? What are your timing and budget constraints? A first 30-minute conversation to understand your situation, no commitment.
Explore our guide - 2
We propose a considered selection
Targeted selection of regenerative agriculture projects. For each: location, methodology, volumes, co-benefits, certification documentation.
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You decide, we orchestrate
Spot purchase or multi-year offtake, your call based on your strategy. We handle contracting, credit retirement in public registries, and documentation of every transaction. Standardised contracts, serial numbers, and retirement proofs provided.
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Your reporting is ready
You leave with a complete documentation pack for your sustainability report: breakdown by standard, project type, geography, retirement proofs, VCMI claims wording for your communication. Everything is audit-ready.
What you receive
On delivery, you walk away with a complete file, structured for your auditor, your board, and your customer communication.
- Registry retirement certificate with unique serial numbers
- Project Description Document (PDD) of the funded programme
- Monitoring and verification reports from accredited third parties
- ESRS E1-7 formatted table, ready to plug into your sustainability report
- VCMI memo on defensible claims (Silver, Gold or Platinum)
- Signed methodological attestation letter, audit-ready
What connects us to you
Independence
Arka owns no projects, holds no inventory, manages no fund. Our only interest is that your contribution is as right as it can be. Our independence is your guarantee of aligned advice.
Rigorous analysis
Every project is assessed against recognised criteria: additionality, permanence, quantification, co-benefits, governance. We share your integrity standards, and the same transparency on strengths as on limits.
Traceability
Every tonne is traced, from project to public registry, from retirement to your balance sheet. Serial numbers, retirement proofs, registry screenshots: everything is documented and shared systematically.
Rooted in European agriculture
All our farms are in France and Europe. Proximity that makes your contribution verifiable on the ground.
Our conviction: soil carbon deserves more attention
From the science to the ground: four reasons soil carbon is a strategic climate lever, not a niche.
Soils hold more carbon than all vegetation and the atmosphere combined
The IPCC estimates that improved soil management practices could remove 0.4 to 2.5 GtCO₂ per year, up to 20% of the global removal effort needed by 2050. It is the largest under-mobilised land-based removal lever.
The market funds it far below its potential
Soil and agriculture credits remain a fractional share of the voluntary carbon market today. Our own VCM data warehouse, which tracks retirements across public registries, shows regenerative agriculture is structurally underfunded relative to its measurable climate impact.
On the ground, the economics work for the farmer
On the Gaïago programme we represent, carbon revenues cover up to 90% of the transition cost. A soil prebiotic that reactivates microbial biology brings yield gains by year 2 or 3. The transition pays for itself for the farmer, and that is what makes it durable.
Integrity is converging on soil carbon
Gold Standard SOC 402.3, the methodology behind the Gaïago programme, is under review for the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles and for the EU CRCF. A clear trajectory toward the most demanding integrity standards.
Sources :IPCC AR6 WG3·IPCC SRCCL·Arka · VCM market data
The reference frameworks
BVCM | Beyond Value Chain Mitigation
Science Based Targets initiative
SBTi's BVCM framework recognises that credible climate leadership goes beyond internal reduction. It encourages companies to fund, today, climate projects outside their value chain, complementing, never replacing, their SBTi pathway.
Read the official sourceCore Carbon Principles
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market
The 10 ICVCM Core Carbon Principles set the minimum integrity threshold expected of a carbon credit: additionality, permanence, robust quantification, no double counting, co-benefits. We structure our selection around this framework and prioritise methodologies already CCP-approved or currently under ICVCM assessment.
Read the official sourceFrequently asked questions
Let's discuss your soil carbon needs
30 minutes to understand your context, size your volumes and explore available credits. No commitment.