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Projects

Real projects. On the ground.
Measured.

We don't only grade other people's carbon. We originate and develop our own high-integrity projects and carry them end to end, from the soil to a settled, provable sale. Our flagship is in New Zealand, with a growing pipeline beyond it.

Map of New Zealand showing ĀTA Land farms distributed across both islands
ĀTA Land
252 farms · Aotearoa New Zealand
S 41° · E 174°
Flagship New Zealand

ĀTA Land: a nationwide regenerative-land collective.

Our flagship is a partnership with ĀTA Regenerative, New Zealand's Savory Institute hub and the country's only certified provider of Ecological Outcome Verification, with seventeen years in the regenerative field. Together we bring farms across New Zealand into a single high-integrity soil-carbon programme under Verra's VM0042 methodology. This is living, working country: sheep and beef stations, high-country farms, whole catchments, measured at national scale.

252

Farms across New Zealand in one programme.

520k+

Hectares of living, working land.

VM0042

Verra's improved agricultural land management methodology.

17yr

ĀTA Regenerative's experience in the field.

The practice beneath the credit

Regenerative farming. Land that improves.

Most modern farming is built on extraction: soil worked until it can no longer sustain the life on it. It takes roughly a thousand years to build three centimetres of topsoil, and on current trends the world's topsoil could be exhausted within sixty years.

Regenerative farming reverses that through holistic grazing, living soils, restored water cycles and returning biodiversity, so the land improves year on year rather than degrading. Healthier soil holds more water, grows more resilient pasture and draws down carbon as it heals. The carbon credit is the by-product of land that is genuinely getting better.

TOPSOILROOT ZONEWATER STOREMINERALLIVING SOIL
EOV: how we know it's real

Regenerative is a claim. Ecological Outcome Verification is the proof.

EOV is a science-based, outcomes-first protocol developed through the Savory Institute's global network, now spanning some 3.75 million hectares across five continents and regarded as the gold standard for measuring grassland health. It doesn't certify what a farmer does; it verifies whether the land is actually regenerating: soil health, biodiversity, water function and ecosystem trend, ground-truthed in the field, season after season, giving the land a voice of its own.

On our programme, EOV's field science is paired with satellite measurement from Space Intelligence, so every tonne rests on both in-ground evidence and earth observation, never a model alone.

Measured

Soil health

Measured

Biodiversity

Measured

Water function

Measured

Ecosystem trend

A growing pipeline

Beyond New Zealand.

We are developing durable carbon-removal opportunities in the Western Balkans, pairing permanent removal with land remediation. Public detail to be confirmed.

Proof the model is real, and working.

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