News and events

HM Revenue and Customs has published updated guidance about the VAT treatment of voluntary carbon credits.  

We have made some clarifications to the current version of the standard. 

We’ve recently published our end of year interim statistics for 2023 to 2024.   

Find out more about the Woodland Carbon Code in this Scottish Forestry video.

Farmers, foresters and other land managers in England are being encouraged to apply for the Woodland Carbon Guarantee scheme ahead of the eighth auction, which will take place online from 23-29 September.

Thank you to everyone who completed our recent communications survey. We received 95 responses.

International Day of Forests is held on 21 March each year to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of forests and trees.

The Woodland Carbon Code team is keen to ensure our communications meet your needs. 

We've launched a new project to develop a standard buyer-seller contract for Pending Issuance Units and Woodland/Peatland Carbon Units. 

We’ve published a new version of the WCC today and there are some key changes for project developers and landowners to note: 

There is a new standard document, and new template documents for all stages (registration, validation and verification).  If you haven’t yet started on your documentation, please use the new Version 2.1 documents (Version 2.4 for the carbon calculator).