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Carbon Rho Red River Pilot (Credits Now Available)
This forest carbon project developed by Carbon Rho, LLC and certified by BCarbon spans the four-state area of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. It is a group project that aims to connect private lands, including marginal farmland, ranches, timber tracts, and afforestation areas, to native bottomland timber stands. The design creates an opportunity to collaborate with USDA-NRCS to assess and improve mixed native hardwood plantations within and adjacent to tracts enrolled in various USDA Agricultural Conservation Easement Programs. The project is tailored to address five UN Sustainable Devlopment Goals: Clean Water and Sanitation, Climate Action, Life Below Water, Life on Land, and Peace and Justice Strong Institutions.
A Texan by Nature Certified Project
The Texas Climate-Smart Initiative is a five-year pilot project led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and funded by USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. This groundbreaking initiative aims to foster climate-smart agriculture for all major Texas agricultural commodities and create market opportunities across the commodities. BCarbon is a partner on this project, focusing on carbon credit education materials for landowners as well as developing pilot projects for soil and forest carbon protocols.
Texas Climate-Smart Initiative
Small Landowners Carbon Cooperative
Supported by a grant from the Bia-Echo Foundation, this collaboration between BCarbon, Prairie View A&M AgriLife Extension Service (AgriLife), and the US Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) is establishing a carbon credit cooperative that will service African American forest landowners in East Texas. The initiative seeks to address barriers to land retention and carbon market participation in these communities. It draws on BCarbon’s expertise in forest carbon, Agrilife’s landowner outreach capacity, and USBCSD’s network of corporate and organizational constituents.
This pilot research program spanning 20 ranches and over 20,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and on Native American lands aims to strengthen understanding of soil carbon accrual in grasslands and the role of the microbial rhizosphere. Carbon accrual is being measured and analyzed over three consecutive years. BCarbon manages compliance with its Soil Carbon Protocol, development of a carbon testing plan, contracting with soil core drillers, coordination with testing laboratories, and issuance and payments to landowners.
EMRE Grasslands Research Project
Creating living shoreline barriers along the Texas coast can help mitigate the negative impacts of sea level rise, which is a major threat to the vitality Texas’s economically and ecologically essential salt marshes. BCarbon’s Living Shorelines Protocol is the first on the market to encourage the construction of these structures, which could provide a nature-based structural support and adaptation mechanism for up to 500,000 acres of estuarine Spartina alterniflora wetlands.
1000-Mile Living Shoreline Initiative
Pecan Street Inc., in partnership with BCarbon and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), created educational and outreach resources on carbon markets for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. The intent was to ensure climate smart agriculture and NRCS resources were accessible to small and underserved landowners. Through a multi-month workshopping process, BCarbon developed a “Carbon Market Primer,” which aims to help landowners, particularly small landowners and landowners of color, determine whether market engagement is a good fit with their resources and goals.