Turn your land into climate action

What is a carbon credit?

Think of credits like bottles of spring water: the landowner fills the bottle (stores carbon), a lab tests it (audit), then a barcode goes on the cap (registry)

A carbon credit is a verifiable, digital certificate showing that one metric tonne of carbon dioxide—or the same climate-warming effect from another greenhouse gas—has been prevented from entering the atmosphere or has been removed and safely stored (for example, in living plants, healthy soils, rock formations, or long-lived products).

Because caring for forests, farms, and wetlands costs money, carbon credits turn those natural “carbon-sink” services into a tradable asset. When companies purchase credits to offset the emissions they still can’t avoid, they channel real funding to the farmers, forest stewards, and conservation teams who make those carbon savings happen.

Why Carbon Credits Matter?

Why do businesses and communities use carbon credits?

• Bridge to Net-Zero – Some emissions (long-haul flights, steel, cement) can’t disappear overnight. Buying high-quality credits lets companies balance those “left-over” tonnes right now, while long-term fixes scale up.

• Fund Climate Solutions – Revenue from credits pays forest rangers, small-holder farmers, and clean-tech innovators to keep carbon locked away.

• Boost Reputation & Compliance – Investors, customers, and new regulations all expect clear climate action. Retiring verifiable credits is a transparent, “audit-ready” step.

Where do credits come from?

Think of it as a simple four-stop relay race—
landowner → auditor → registry → buyer

• Project action – A forest is protected, a mangrove restored, a wind farm built, or a direct-air-capture plant starts sucking CO₂ from air.

• Independent check – Auditors confirm the climate benefit is real, extra, and long-lasting.

• Registry issue – A trusted registry (like Verra, Gold Standard, or India’s Carbon Registry) places the credit on a public ledger so it can’t be double-counted.

How Do We Know a Credit Is Real?

Proving It Works: Quality & Integrity

A carbon credit is only credible when it can prove a genuine, beyond-business-as-usual climate benefit that endures for decades, not months. That means demonstrating rigorous additionality, airtight measurement and reporting, and safeguards that keep the carbon locked away. Accredited auditors pore over field data, drone and satellite imagery, and project finances, then cross-check the numbers against registry rules to confirm that the captured—or avoided—tonnes of CO₂ will remain out of the atmosphere for the long haul.

Robust MRV & Transparency

Field plots, satellite lidar, stack sensors, or drone imagery feed an approved methodology. Certified third-party auditors review the data each cycle and issue a public verification report; the registry then mints a unique serial number so anyone can trace issuance, ownership, and retirement.

Permanence + Leakage Safeguards

Carbon needs to stay locked away for decades and not simply pop up somewhere else. Buffer-pool insurance shields against fire or project failure, while leakage monitoring deducts any emissions that shift to neighbouring lands or supply chains—ensuring the net climate benefit is real.

Additionality

The project must deliver extra carbon savings that would not occur without credit revenue. Auditors test “with-project” vs. “business-as-usual” baselines, check local laws, and confirm the activity wasn’t already profitable or mandatory.

Who Issues Carbon Credits?

Registries certify projects, serial-number credits, and safeguard the ledger.

Carbon-credit registries—independent, usually non-profit platforms such as Verra, Gold Standard, or India’s CR-I—govern the full life-cycle of an offset: they approve project methodologies, log third-party audit results, mint uniquely serialised digital credits, and run the public ledger that tracks every transfer through to final retirement. By enforcing these rules and transparently publishing each transaction, registries protect environmental integrity and stop any single tonne of climate benefit from being claimed twice.

In short, registries are the market’s score-keepers: if a tonne isn’t on their books, it isn’t real. Choose the ledger whose rules, project mix, and reputation best match your organisation’s climate-action story.

Carbon project types and typical activities

From living landscapes to high-tech removals, turning real-world action into verifiable carbon tonnes.

When you purchase a carbon credit, you are effectively buying the story of a real intervention somewhere on the planet—trees left standing, soils enriched, wetlands revived, or a tonne of CO₂ drawn from the air and locked away. Selecting the right kind of project is therefore critical.

Technology-enabled avoidance

New renewables, energy-efficiency retrofits and methane capture—keeps fresh emissions from ever occurring.

Ultra-durable removals

Biochar, mineralised concrete, direct-air-capture and similar chemistries—lock carbon away for centuries in rock-solid form.

Nature-based solutions

Forests, farms, grasslands and blue-carbon ecosystems—either pull carbon from the atmosphere or protect vast stocks already stored in living biomass and soils.

Broadly, the Carbon projects can be of three major types.

Each type carries its own price point, permanence profile, monitoring toolkit and risk story. Selecting the right balance ultimately decides whether your portfolio is simply cost-efficient today or robust and future-ready for evolving climate standards.

Ecobasics Project Portfolio

Nature-based carbon programmes engineered for scientific rigour, local stewardship, and long-term climate value.

Ecobasics concentrates on forestry, agro-forestry, and wetland projects that combine high carbon density with measurable biodiversity and community benefits. Each initiative is vetted for additionality, permanence, social safeguards, and registry alignment before we commit resources. The outcome is a pipeline of traceable, third-party-verified credits ready to anchor any forward-looking net-zero strategy.

Projects that we support

Ecobasics primarily focuses on AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use) projects. We work where trees meet people—community-managed REDD+ programmes that halt deforestation, agro-forestry belts that shade cocoa and coffee crops, restoration of regenerative ecosystems that rebuild soil carbon, and coastal peatlands that sequester CO₂ while buffering storm surges. We aim to do projects that don’t just deliver carbon credits; but also unlock biodiversity gains, safeguard watershed services and channel revenue to local communities, all of which strengthens the durability and social licence of every credit you retire.

How you can engage with us

Engaging Ecobasics can be as light-touch or end-to-end as you require. We begin with feasibility and baseline studies—running additionality tests, mapping legal land tenure, and securing free, prior and informed consent from communities. Our technical team then designs the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system: permanent field plots, drone and LiDAR transects in dense forest, or soil-core grids for cropland. When the data package is audit-ready, we manage validation and verification, and help you through all queries and technical support required. Next, we compile the registry paperwork and lead the project through issuance. Finally, we stay with the project: annual biomass surveys, reversal-risk checks, buffer-pool top-ups, and transparent impact reporting that folds seamlessly into your ESG disclosures.