- What investors want to account for:
- Scope of emission: soil C only, or also other agricultural emissions, landscape level emissions (e.g. forest conversion) or the value chain lifecycle?
- Methods that are affordable and practical:
- Practice-based planning or reporting is a preferred approach for many projects, e.g. “eligible practice” or “green lists.” How far does this go in accounting?
- Soil and other environmental data are often not available. Models for the tropics are often poor.
- Robustness needs:
- Aim for what is minimally necessary rather than waiting for perfection (Martin N’s recommendation)
- Accounting time and spatial scales:
- Projects usually report annually, so how do they report if changes are only detected after 3-5 years? What if an initial decline occurs, as is common?
