Google will buy one million tonnes of methane impact from alternate wetting and drying on 200,000 hectares of Brazilian rice land by 2030, stacked with enhanced-weathering removals. Isometric now carries a Rice Methane Reduction protocol. The UN's Article 6.4 panel is moving agricultural methods toward direct measurement. Rice is where methane avoidance meets the removal label, and where the price of a survey-based credit is falling.
By registry: Verra 330 · Gold Standard 109 · Isometric 1
4 stories that change the picture for Rice & AWD.
Google signs its largest removal deal: 2 Mt with Terradot on Brazilian rice land
One million tonnes of methane impact by 2030 from alternate wetting and drying, plus one million tonnes of enhanced-weathering removal by 2040, across 200,000 hectares.
Why it matters. Rice methane avoidance stacked with durable removal on the same farms is now the reference deal for the type.
Agoro Carbon issues first soil credits under its 2.6 million credit Microsoft contract
Verra VM0042 credits from cropland and pastureland across 34 US states, 600 producers, 110,000 soil cores.
Why it matters. Field sampling plus modelling cleared Verra verification at scale. The measurement bar for agricultural credits is now public.
Article 6.4 panel pushes agricultural and cooking methods toward direct measurement
Two clean-cooking methodologies and a reversal-risk tool progressed; the direction is metered data replacing surveys.
Why it matters. Survey-based rice credits are on the wrong side of this. Design for sensors and satellite flooding detection now.
Isometric now carries a Rice Methane Reduction protocol
One project listed under it as of 25 September.
Why it matters. A removal-only registry taking on rice methane says where the buyers of that credit are going.
0 new listings, 0 status changes, 0 newly registered or certified.
The late list, the pipeline mix, and who is originating.
Most active proponents in the pipeline
- Climate Secure India Pvt. Ltd 16 projects in pipeline or validation
- Value Network Ventures Pte. Ltd. 14 projects in pipeline or validation
- Kosher Climate India Pvt Ltd. 13 projects in pipeline or validation
- Core CarbonX Solutions Private Limited 11 projects in pipeline or validation
- Partners in Prosperity 7 projects in pipeline or validation
- NetZeroAg Ltd 4 projects in pipeline or validation
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