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Isometric Certify makes fast and rigorous carbon removal verification a reality. For InPlanet this was key to issuing the world’s first independently verified Enhanced Weathering credits.
Certify creates a streamlined verification experience, giving suppliers and validation and verification bodies (VVBs) a standardized way to provide all required data and evidence to Isometric.
Automating the flow of this data drastically reduces the time from submission of carbon accounting data to crediting—from months to weeks. This is possible because Certify helps suppliers move from manual spreadsheets to an automated approach to evaluating carbon removal data, streamlining the complex analysis required in Enhanced Weathering (EW).
This is a key step in modernizing how carbon markets work and helps suppliers verify and deliver credits quickly—without compromising on quality.
EW should be a significant pathway for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). It is relatively low cost, can be applied in many settings and creates substantial co-benefits—like improved soil health, greater agricultural productivity and job creation in rural communities. But, doing scientifically rigorous monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) in EW has been challenging to date, due to the complexity involved.
InPlanet is a supplier that is working to help EW scale. Their mission is to remove gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while regenerating soils in the tropics. InPlanet began working with Isometric in June 2024. Both companies knew that rigorous MRV was going to be key to issuing high quality EW credits that could be trusted by buyers, suppliers and the CDR ecosystem.
To tackle this, InPlanet ensured that Isometric’s EW Protocol was included in designing and operationalizing their initial deployment at their Serra da Mantiqueira project in Brazil. This included a thorough and rigorous approach to sampling across their site based on infield baseline observations—a crucial part of quantifying how much carbon dioxide the project had durably removed from the atmosphere.
By the end of 2024, Isometric had validated, visited and verified InPlanet’s Serra da Mantiqueira project. Since then, Isometric has issued the world’s first verified EW credits for InPlanet and Isometric Certify has continued to streamline their ongoing verification process.
“Verifiying Enhanced Weathering is a complex task. Sampling returns a huge amount of data that can be noisy and is unique to every application of rock. We expected it would be difficult to quantify our climate impact, but working with Isometric made it possible.
As soon as we signed with Isometric, our teams worked at incredible speed, bringing our and their knowledge together. They met us so often—and understood our challenges—so within just a few months of working, we did something that had never been done before.
Now verification is no longer a topic of worry, but a point of strength.”
InPlanet knows well the challenges that come with conducting MRV on open systems like EW. It was crucial they had a registry partner that shared their deep level of scientific knowledge and was able to quickly and accurately quantify net carbon removals from the complex data that in-field sampling creates.
With Isometric, InPlanet found a partner with the same depth of scientific expertise that was also willing to take a pragmatic, tailored approach to MRV.
InPlanet had already built processes to manage their sampling, operational and life cycle analysis data and were able to easily integrate these with Isometric Certify during the verification process. This integration accelerated the verification process and made it easier to analyze complicated data from a variety of sources.
“Isometric’s fast, technology-enabled approach to verification made it possible for us to navigate the complexity of the scientific process to conservatively quantify gross and net removals. Their operational support, combined with deep scientific expertise, made the crediting process much smoother and faster than it would have been otherwise.”
High quality MRV often spans many departments within a supplier’s company and influences every part of the carbon removal process. This can be especially difficult when a supplier is going through the credit issuance process for the first time—questions arise frequently and many incremental decisions need to be made. Luckily Isometric and InPlanet have a common strategic approach that allows MRV to be tailored to a project’s specific reality. The data from the MRV process is reinforced by shared transparency.
During the verification process, questions came up around how to handle differences between measurements, tracer types and how to handle outlier data points. These are all natural parts of the scientific process that require a deep level of expertise to navigate. Even with a scientifically rigorous, clear protocol, InPlanet needed a registry partner that was dedicated enough to help them make informed MRV decisions in real time.
Isometric and InPlanet worked closely together to handle these issues and have transparently shared the lessons learned with the CDR ecosystem. This transparency ensures that buyers and suppliers alike can have confidence that every Isometric credit represents a tonne of carbon dioxide durably removed from the atmosphere.
These lessons were also incorporated into the updated version of Isometric’s EW Protocol and are reflected in the calculation data behind every credit on the Isometric Registry.
Additionally, Isometric-verified data from InPlanet’s credits are anonymized and shared with Cascade Climate, a philanthropic organization advancing scientific rigor in EW. This data will contribute to Cascade’s Data Quarry—the first-ever EW data sharing system—giving researchers the opportunity to access verified commercial data for the advancement of EW models and other solutions to scale the field. The goal of this pilot data sharing initiative is to shape what data accessibility and transparency look like at scale, just as InPlanet and Isometric shaped what credit issuance can look like.
For EW suppliers, millions of data points can now be easily submitted via Isometric Certify, saving time and increasing the accuracy of reporting. This ease of use also easily scales with project expansion, so it doesn’t create extra, manual work when you create a new site.
Isometric Certify revolutionizes carbon removal verification by enhancing efficiency, transparency and scalability.
If you want to take the guesswork out of calculating net removals and make your verification quick and painless, learn how to get started with Isometric.
InPlanet is a remote-first, people centered, German-Brazilian carbon removal ClimateTech company on a mission to remove gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and is the first to work at scale with the unique conditions of tropical soils using Enhanced Weathering. Over the past two years, the company has made a measurable impact on tropical agriculture and climate change through its operations in Brazil.
InPlanet works closely together with farmers and agricultural sector stakeholders to restore soils and help them to transition to a low carbon, sustainable and nature-based agriculture. The company’s vision is to sequester gigatonnes of carbon dioxide while regenerating tropical soils in order to create a livable planet with nutritious food and healthy ecosystems for future generations.
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