Expert support with Woodland Carbon Code or Peatland Code registration
If you’re planting a woodland or restoring a peatland in the UK, and you might want to sell the carbon credits it will generate, you must register it with the Woodland Carbon Code or Peatland Code. Land managers and owners have been turning to Forest Carbon for help with this process since we were the first to certify a project under the Woodland Carbon Code in 2011.
Working with Forest Carbon to register a project means:
The majority of the administrative burden is taken off of your shoulders
Peace of mind that your project is progressing efficiently and to code
You could gain access to grouping which means certification costs may be lower
What does registration entail?
Registration is the first of three steps in Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) and Peatland Code (PC) certification. We can help you with the entire process, or with just one or two of the stages. Jump to Project Validation (stage 2) or Project Verification (stage 3).
Registration can take up to 2 weeks (from receiving the required documentation) to complete. We assist project hosts intending to validate a project through one of the Codes with registration free of charge.
The two most important things to know about registration are:
- It must happen before any work (fencing, ground prep, planting, restoration etc.) begins. If you start planting a woodland or restoring a peatland before registering it, it will not be eligible for the Woodland Carbon Code or Peatland Code. This will affect your ability to sell the carbon in the future.
- You must be able to prove additionality. Additionality can be a bit of a tricky concept to understand. Essentially, a project is additional if the carbon sequestration would not have happened in the absence of the carbon market. It’s typically assessed based on financial viability. For instance, if woodland creation is financially viable and the best use of the land from a financial perspective, the project will not be eligible for the Code. For more information on additionality, get in touch.
Otherwise, registration tends to be relatively straightforward. We will send you a form to fill out, which will give us the information we need to register your project and complete the indicative carbon calculation. For woodland projects, you will need to supply a project map, but we can guide you on what it should look like and how to do it. For peatland projects, where the mapping is more complex, we can create a detailed project map for you.
Before completing the registration, we will relay the carbon calculations and confirm that you’d like to proceed.
REACH OUT to discuss Woodland Carbon Code or Peatland Code registration for your project, or continue to learn about the next step in the process: project validation.
