7. Grow your own carbon units
Why grow your own units?
An increasing number of estate owners or companies who own land are considering 'growing their own' carbon units by creating woodland to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere on their land holding or business.
Getting their project validated and verified to the Woodland Carbon Code quantifies the benefit of this woodland creation and provides carbon units to compensate for the estate/business's wider emissions as they grow.
Carbon units can only be used once. If you use them against your own emissions, you can't sell them to a third party. It is possible to use a proportion and sell a proportion of the units generated.
Companies/ landowners who are 'growing their own'
These companies own land and have invested in a woodland creation project to generate their own supply of carbon units to use against their emissions in future.
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Status |
Project developer |
Number of units |
Project name |
Contact |
| Verified |
This project is owned by Caledonian Properties Ltd |
~11,000 | Caledonian Woodland Carbon Scheme (case study) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Validated |  |
~37,000 | New carbon Woodlands 1 (UK Land Carbon Registry) | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Verified |  |
~30,000 | Cwm Fagor (case study)
Cwm Fagor (Verified - on UK Land Carbon Registry) Cwm Fagor 2016-2017 (Validated - on UK Land Carbon Registry) |
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| Verified |  |
~1,700 | Upton Court Park (case study) | TBC |
