European soil carbon credits: spot, forward and offtake
Distributors and market intermediaries, direct corporate buyers, offtake structurers: three positions on the voluntary carbon market, three sets of questions, three purchase mechanisms. Arka supports each profile on the terms that fit their situation.
Selection module
Farms close to your sites
Your operating locations, a target volume: the closest farms, the summary, a shareable map.
Three audiences, three purchase logics
Three buyer profiles, three purchase mechanisms: two complementary lenses to frame your situation.
Three purchase mechanisms
Three distinct mechanisms, corresponding to three credit states and three buyer profiles.
Spot (already issued)
Credits already issued on a public registry, available immediately. Transfer to your registry account on retirement.
- When it fits
- You need volume this year for a report, an audit or a public announcement.
- What Arka does
- Sourcing across the developer portfolio, contracting, retirement coordination, documentation pack.
- Who it serves
- Distributors · Direct corporate buyers
Forward on farms already enrolled
Purchase commitment at an agreed price on volumes from cohorts already enrolled in the developer's pipeline. Delivery on Gold Standard verification.
- When it fits
- You want to secure future tonnes at a fixed price without waiting for the spot market.
- What Arka does
- Price, volume and delivery negotiation with the developer, contract structuring, milestone tracking, delivery reporting.
- Who it serves
- Distributors · Direct corporate buyers
Offtake on cohorts to be enrolled
Multi-year commitment that triggers the enrolment of new farmer cohorts by the developer. Your commitment and your pre-financing unlock supply that would not exist without you.
- When it fits
- You commit volumes over a 5-15 year horizon with the strategic intent to shape supply.
- What Arka does
- Origination, commercial structuring, pre-financing needs analysis, delivery coordination through the contract term, secondary market resale facilitation if needed.
- Who it serves
- Industrials with agricultural Scope 3 · Financial carbon funds
You have the demand, we source the supply
You broker, aggregate or resell VCM credits to your own buyer base. Your due diligence is your reputation. Arka sources European soil carbon credits from a curated portfolio of non-exclusive distribution mandates, and delivers standards-compliant supply, repeatable over time.
What you experience
- ·On every transaction you must produce a full dossier on what you distribute: methodology, field controls, independent verification, delivery history. The dossier has become a deliverable in its own right.
- ·The universe of standards, reporting frameworks and quality rating grids keeps expanding. Tracking what matters for each buyer becomes a continuous analytical effort.
What we deliver
- Curated developer portfolio : All pre-vetted before mandate signature: methodology, MRV stack, registry standing, issuance history.
- Cross-developer inventory : Consolidated under a single commercial point of contact.
- Standards-compliant docs per transaction : PDD, verification reports, serial numbers, retirement proofs.
- Non-exclusive mandates : The same supply can flow through multiple channels, no buyer is locked into a single intermediary.
- Access to our aggregated voluntary carbon market database : Consolidated from public registries (Gold Standard, Verra, ART TREES, Puro, CRCF). Transaction comparables, liquidity analysis by methodology, region or buyer segment.
Mechanisms covered: spot and forward on farms already enrolled.
See our developer partnersVerified soil carbon credits, documented for your SBTi trajectory and your customers
You buy credits for your own retirement. You need a credit that holds up against your auditor, your board and public scrutiny, without having to build a dedicated in-house team.
What you experience
SBTi V2 sets the role credits play in your trajectory
SBTi V2 sets how credits count against your Scope 1, 2 and 3 targets, with rules still being finalised. Aligning your purchase strategy with these moving rules requires active monitoring. We track these evolutions continuously and adjust our deliverables to each iteration.
Every tonne is visible
Your carbon credit usage is disclosed separately from your emissions reductions. External auditor, board, customers, regulators: the documentation must hold up in front of each of them. We structure every transaction at the level of detail expected, ready to be presented.
A market to navigate without in-house expertise
A dozen standards, methodologies and rating agencies, all evolving. Building this expertise in-house is costly and distracting. We do that work for you, and for traceability toward your stakeholders, our farms are identifiable, geolocated, measured.
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
Mechanisms covered: spot for immediate needs, forward on farms already enrolled for multi-year commitment.
Book 30 minutesYou commit multi-year. We unlock the new supply for you.
A multi-year offtake is one of the heaviest contracts your organisation will sign this year. It commits you to a volume, at a defined price, over 5, 10 or 15 years. Your commitment and your pre-financing allow the developer to enrol new farmer cohorts that would not exist without you. Arka structures the contractual mechanics between you and the developer.
What you experience
- A 5 to 15 year commitment requires rigorous contract architecture: split of delivery risk, shortfall and replacement clauses, payment schedules aligned with verification milestones. These are negotiation points, not fixed constraints.
- The upfront analysis on an offtake covers two distinct dimensions: project quality and the developer's strength as a counterparty over the full commitment term. Both must hold for years, not just at signature.
- Post-signature monitoring is as structural as the signature itself. Generic checklists stop at project quality; an offtake requires continuous monitoring of milestones, issuances and developer status.
Two profiles we support on offtake
Industrials with agricultural Scope 3
Food, beverage, cosmetics, pharma, beauty: you have Scope 3 emissions from agriculture. An offtake with a European soil carbon developer decarbonises the relevant Scope 3 category over the medium term. Your Supply team can also evaluate directly with the developer whether the new cohort could align with your own agricultural supply chain. That alignment is negotiated bilaterally; we structure the ERPA that unlocks it.
Financial carbon funds
You are building a carbon vehicle: multi-year commitments, potential pre-financing to the developer, credits carried on your book once issued, resold on the secondary market when the strategy calls for it. Arka has an established network of buyers (direct corporates and market intermediaries) and can facilitate the resale of issued volumes when your fund decides to exit a position.
What Arka structures in an offtake
- Origination : Matching buyer with the right cohort profile (vintage, geography, standard, MRV stack, volume, timeline) from our curated portfolio of non-exclusive mandates.
- Commercial structuring : Deal architecture: pricing mechanism (fixed, indexed, collar), annualised volume, delivery schedule aligned with vintages, staged payment calendar aligned with project milestones.
- Shortfall clauses : What happens on under-delivery: replacement obligation, price adjustment, make-good on future vintages. Arka structures the clause; the developer carries the obligation.
- Pre-financing analysis : Market data aggregation from our consolidated database of public VCM registries, to size the initial capital needed to launch the cohort. Analytical role in negotiating pre-financing terms between buyer and developer.
- Delivery coordination : Single point of contact throughout the contract term: quarterly milestone tracking, early warning on drifts (verification delays, climate events, developer status changes).
- Retirement coordination : Instructions relayed to the developer, follow-through until effective registry retirement, serial numbers returned to you.
- Secondary market resale facilitation : For institutional buyers on a carry-and-resell thesis: resale facilitation for issued volumes via our established buyer network.
What is out of our scope
Stating this upfront defuses downstream due diligence questions. What you and your teams retain:
- Balance sheet : No balance sheet, no principal position, no inventory. Arka does not pre-finance from its own funds.
- Buffer pool : Managed by the registry (Gold Standard, Verra, ART TREES). Arka does not contribute to it.
- Delivery risk : Carried by the developer per the ERPA. Arka structures the protection clauses; Arka is not the obligor.
- Verification : Independent VVB accredited by the registry. Not us.
- Insetting alignment : Evaluating alignment between new cohorts and your supply chain happens directly between your Supply team and the developer. Arka flags the opportunities without brokering the alignment.
- Legal advice : Your legal team retains final review of the contract.
- Retirement timing : Your call, per your own reporting strategy.
- Corresponding adjustments (Article 6) : Host country and registry matter.
What connects us to you
Independence
Arka owns no projects, holds no inventory, manages no fund. Our compensation is a distribution commission, known upfront. Our recommendations rest on programme quality, not on inventory to move.
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 Europe. Proximity that makes your contribution verifiable on the ground.
Let's talk
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