The South American Regenerative Agriculture (SARA) programme has achieved a significant milestone with the issuance of its first Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) through Verra, one of the world’s leading carbon credit certification bodies.
This confirms SARA as one of only eight programmes globally to achieve issuance under Verra’s VM0042 regenerative agriculture methodology - with Anthesis and
@ruuts.la responsible for two of them, underscoring their leadership in scaling high integrity, nature-based carbon removals.
SARA, developed by Anthesis and Ruuts, in collaboration with local partners
@ovis.21 (Argentina),
@deraizpy (Paraguay), and
@efecto_manada (Chile), is also the largest programme to be registered and issued under VM00042 in Argentina, Paraguay and Chile.
The programme currently supports more than 130 farms managing approximately 150,000 hectares of rangeland, with farmer participation and land area expected to grow significantly as the programme scales toward a target of 500,000 hectares.
The first monitoring period (2019 – 2023) has now been verified, resulting in the issuance of over 200,000 carbon removal credits, equivalent to more than 200,000 tonnes of CO₂e removed from the atmosphere. Annual issuance volumes are expected to increase year-on-year, with over one million tonnes of CO₂e removals forecast annually from 2028 onwards, subject to continued verification and programme expansion.
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