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The vintage years for our supplier's credits are listed on our Registry page, with new credits coming online frequently. When you purchase Regenerative Tonnes, your certificate shows where and when carbon was removed and is updated throughout the certificate’s lifetime.

Currently, all carbon removals take place on US farmland in line with Nori’s US Croplands Methodology. On our Registry page, you can see which states each farmer operates in, and when you receive a certificate, you can see your supplier, when the carbon was removed, and approximately where your carbon is stored.

Regenerative Tonnes are created using the following steps:

1. Suppliers provide project data
2. An independent third-party estimates carbon removal — The Regenerative Tonne quantity is determined based on carbon amounts tracked in the model; The model Nori uses is based on the USDA Blue Book-approved COMET-Farm carbon accounting system and greenhouse gas implementation tool and is underpinned by soil sampling. This is a third-party model and the soil organic carbon is independently quantified.
3. A separate third-party verifier ensures that the supplier’s data is accurate and represents real carbon removal and storage.
4. Then, the Nori Regenerative Tonnes get listed in Nori’s marketplace, where buyers can purchase them.
5. Buyers can track and share their impact with unique carbon removal certificates.

Regenerative Tonne quality is ensured in the following ways:

1. All credits are ex-post, which means the carbon has already been removed. We do not sell reduction or avoidance credits.
2. We use a third-party verifier to ensure that farmers have adopted regenerative practices and maintain these practices;
3. The model Nori uses is based on the USDA Blue Book-approved COMET-Farm carbon accounting system and greenhouse gas implementation tool and is underpinned by soil sampling. This is a third-party model and the soil organic carbon is independently quantified;
4. Nori employs a dynamic baseline, measuring only carbon sequestration that occurs above and beyond modeled scenarios of what would have naturally occurred. This is crucial for accurately quantifying how much extra carbon dioxide is being removed from the soils, where carbon levels can fluctuate naturally;
5. Nori conservatively quantifies carbon credits by taking the lesser of two soil organic carbon numbers the model produces and using that number to create the Nori Regenerative Tonne. This method likely undervalues the amount of carbon being stored in the soil (based on an analysis of all of Nori’s enrolled projects);
6. The Nori contract is for 10 years because that is a reasonable period to monitor the practices and ensure there has not been a reversal (i.e. where carbon is intentionally or unintentionally returned to the atmosphere) or mitigate for a reversal;
7. All Nori projects are recorded on a public blockchain and are visible on our supplier pages providing an industry-leading level of transparency in the Voluntary Carbon Markets. This provides buyers the ability to see the projects and practices that are being funded by their purchases;
8. The blockchain prevents a credit from being claimed more than once and all Nori Regenerative Tonnes are immediately retired upon purchase.