7. Grow your own carbon units

Why grow your own units?

There are an increasing number of estate owners or companies who own land and 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.

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.
Verifed		~30,000	Cwm Fagor (case study) Cwm Fagor (Verified - on UK Land Carbon Registry) Cwm Fagor 2016-2017 (Validated - on UK Land Carbon Registry)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Verified		~1,700	Upton Court Park (case study)	TBC
Validated		~10,000	Lochgair (on UK Land Carbon Registry)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.