Climate, Nature & Carbon

Woodland Carbon & Peatland Codes

Pending units are not verified units, and the difference is the whole market.

The UK carbon codes are credible, standardised and widely misunderstood, principally because the pipeline of pending units dwarfs the number actually verified. This module manages project registration, validation, monitoring and verification, shows the true unit position, and provides the price benchmarking and buyer matching that make a sale possible on informed terms.

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12 capabilities
4 linked schemes
Offline capable

12: Capabilities in this module
5: Interactive tools
4: Linked support schemes
5: Data integrations
5: Measures reported

The ground reality

What is actually happening in carbon Codes in the UK

On interim data the Woodland Carbon Code recorded 907 validated projects across 45,467 hectares carrying around 14.17 million Pending Issuance Units but only about 12,700 verified Woodland Carbon Units, because most projects are too young to have sequestered measurable carbon. The Peatland Code recorded 408 registered projects covering 58,860 hectares. Average prices — £28.32 for woodland and £39.57 for peatland units in 2025 — rest on voluntary disclosure and, in the peatland case, are skewed by a small number of large transactions.

Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.

Capabilities

What Carbon Codes does

Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.

Record and plan

Project eligibility assessment against code requirements including additionality
Project registration and documentation assembly
Validation process management with validator coordination

Operate and monitor

Carbon sequestration modelling by species, yield class and management
Pending Issuance Unit and verified unit position tracking, clearly distinguished
Monitoring schedule with field survey and evidence capture

Comply and evidence

Verification event management and unit issuance recording
UK Land Carbon Registry position reconciliation
Price benchmarking against disclosed transaction data with caveats stated

Analyse and improve

Buyer matching and sale process management
Permanence, reversal and buffer pool obligation tracking
Stacking assessment against public scheme payments and biodiversity units

Interactive

Tools you actually use, not screens you read

These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.

Unit position chart separating pending from verified over the project life

Chart

Sequestration projection model by species mix and yield class

Tool

Price benchmark viewer with disclosure caveats shown prominently

Tool

Stacking checker showing which income can and cannot be combined

Wizard

Verification schedule planner with cost forecasting

Builder

End to end

How Carbon Codes runs, start to finish

The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.

1

Assess eligibility and additionality

This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
2

Model sequestration over the project life

The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
3

Register the project on the code

Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
4

Complete validation

Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
5

Deliver and monitor the project

Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
6

Verify at scheduled intervals

This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
7

Record issuance on the registry

Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
8

Sell or retire units with full disclosure

The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.

Who uses it

Built around four real jobs, not one generic user

Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.

Landowner

Registering a woodland project

Needs realistic cashflow, not a headline unit count.

Project developer

Aggregating sites

Needs portfolio-level pending and verified positions.

Corporate buyer

Offtake agreement

Needs clarity on what is actually verified versus forecast.

Land agent

Advising clients

Needs permanence obligations explained before signature.

Schemes and funding

Support schemes this module works with

Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.

United Kingdom

Woodland Carbon Code

Provide a quality assurance standard for woodland creation projects generating verifiable carbon units.

Rolling registration. Scottish Forestry on behalf of all four governments United Kingdom

Peatland Code

Provide a standard for peatland restoration projects generating verifiable carbon units.

Rolling registration. IUCN UK Peatland Programme England

England Woodland Creation Offer

Fund the creation of new woodland, with additional payments for public benefits.

Rolling application. Forestry Commission England

Nature for Climate Peatland Restoration

Fund peatland restoration in England to reduce emissions and improve condition.

Round and partnership based. Defra / Natural England

Rates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.

Measurement

How you will know it is working

The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.

01Hectares registered
02Units validated
03Units verified and issued
04Price achieved per unit
05Verification cost per unit

Questions answered

What people ask about Carbon Codes

Does this replace the software I already use?

Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.

Will it work where I have no signal?

Yes. Field capture in Carbon Codes is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.

What happens when the scheme rules change?

Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.

Who owns the data I put in?

You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.

Does it work if I farm across a border?

Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.

Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?

Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.

What is the biggest limitation of this module?

Pending units mistaken for saleable inventory. Mitigated by explicit separation in every view. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.

Because everything shares one record, adding a neighbouring module usually costs less work than it saves.

Carbon Accounting & Farm Footprinting Enter once, export to any calculator, and know why they disagree. Biodiversity Net Gain A statutory market with a thirty-year commitment attached. Habitat & Species Recovery Habitat created, species monitored, outcomes evidenced. Climate Risk & Adaptation Plan for the weather you will get, not the weather you remember. Renewable Energy & On-Farm Power Solar on the roof usually beats anything else on the balance sheet. Waste, Anaerobic Digestion & Circular Economy Duty of care, digestate value and the honest case against building your own plant.

See Carbon Codes running on your own holding

Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.

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