Agreena, the company powering the global transition to regenerative agriculture, has achieved validation of its Scope 3 Project from SustainCERT, the independent validation and verification body recognised for its role in ensuring transparency and credibility in climate accounting.
This news comes as corporates face mounting pressure to disclose verified Scope 3 emissions under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and upcoming US SEC climate disclosure rules. Agreena’s SustainCERT validation for its on-farm regenerative interventions is the first step toward verification into Verified Impact Units (VIUs). Once issued, VIUs will give companies a traceable, auditable way to account for investments in decarbonising their agricultural supply chains — typically the largest contributor to total Scope 3 emissions — while enabling co-claiming across the value chain.
The announcement follows the Agreena Carbon Project’s Verra Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) verification in September, which issued 2.3 million carbon credits across 1.6 million hectares of regeneratively farmed land. SustainCERT validation builds on this integrity, focusing on Scope 3 reporting and enabling core safeguards such as tracking Impact Units and Proof of Sourcing.
The validation helps companies mitigate risks like double counting and freeriding, supports multiple types of farm partnerships — whether companies source directly from those fields or engage through wider value-chain collaborations — and drives collaboration across the value chain through co-financing and co-claiming arrangements, ensuring exclusivity and confidence in reported data.
Simon Haldrup, CEO and Co-founder and CEO of Agreena, commented: “SustainCERT validation reinforces Agreena’s role as the bridge between corporate ambition and farmer action. For companies with agricultural crops in their value chains, this milestone unlocks a way to collaborate directly with farmers and suppliers to transition to more sustainable practices, reduce emissions, and verify increases in soil carbon. By enabling verified impact to be transferred along the value chain with integrity, we’re helping build a more transparent and collaborative model for agricultural decarbonisation.”
SustainCERT’s validation assessed the Agreena methodology, data model, and monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) framework – confirming alignment with recognised international best practices and the globally adopted Verra VM0042 methodology. This ensures that each Impact Unit carries a comparable level of credibility and assurance to a Verra-issued carbon credit.
“The Agreena S3 Project supports farmers across Hungary, Romania, Poland, Spain and the UK in adopting regenerative agriculture practices to reduce emissions and increase soil carbon. Methodology VM0042 is used to measure GHG reductions and removals. We concluded that the design of the Agreena S3 project meets the SustainCERT Verification requirements for Value Chain Interventions,” added Marion Verles, CEO of SustainCERT.
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