Climate, Nature & Carbon
Woodland Carbon & Peatland Codes
Pending units are not verified units, and the difference is the whole market.
The UK carbon codes are credible, standardised and widely misunderstood, principally because the pipeline of pending units dwarfs the number actually verified. This module manages project registration, validation, monitoring and verification, shows the true unit position, and provides the price benchmarking and buyer matching that make a sale possible on informed terms.
- 12 capabilities
- 4 linked schemes
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 4
- Linked support schemes
- 5
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in carbon codes in the UK
On interim data the Woodland Carbon Code recorded 907 validated projects across 45,467 hectares carrying around 14.17 million Pending Issuance Units but only about 12,700 verified Woodland Carbon Units, because most projects are too young to have sequestered measurable carbon. The Peatland Code recorded 408 registered projects covering 58,860 hectares. Average prices — £28.32 for woodland and £39.57 for peatland units in 2025 — rest on voluntary disclosure and, in the peatland case, are skewed by a small number of large transactions.
Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.
In the field
Carbon codes, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Carbon Codes — a walkthrough
A working pass through carbon codes: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
Capabilities
What Carbon Codes does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Project eligibility assessment against code requirements including additionality
- Project registration and documentation assembly
- Validation process management with validator coordination
Operate and monitor
- Carbon sequestration modelling by species, yield class and management
- Pending Issuance Unit and verified unit position tracking, clearly distinguished
- Monitoring schedule with field survey and evidence capture
Comply and evidence
- Verification event management and unit issuance recording
- UK Land Carbon Registry position reconciliation
- Price benchmarking against disclosed transaction data with caveats stated
Analyse and improve
- Buyer matching and sale process management
- Permanence, reversal and buffer pool obligation tracking
- Stacking assessment against public scheme payments and biodiversity units
Interactive
Tools you actually use, not screens you read
These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.
Unit position chart separating pending from verified over the project life
Unit position chart separating pending from verified over the project life
ChartSequestration projection model by species mix and yield class
Sequestration projection model by species mix and yield class
ToolPrice benchmark viewer with disclosure caveats shown prominently
Price benchmark viewer with disclosure caveats shown prominently
ToolStacking checker showing which income can and cannot be combined
Stacking checker showing which income can and cannot be combined
WizardVerification schedule planner with cost forecasting
Verification schedule planner with cost forecasting
BuilderEnd to end
How Carbon Codes runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Assess eligibility and additionality
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Model sequestration over the project life
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Register the project on the code
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Complete validation
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Deliver and monitor the project
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Verify at scheduled intervals
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Record issuance on the registry
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Sell or retire units with full disclosure
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Who uses it
Built around four real jobs, not one generic user
Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.
Landowner
Registering a woodland project
Needs realistic cashflow, not a headline unit count.
Project developer
Aggregating sites
Needs portfolio-level pending and verified positions.
Corporate buyer
Offtake agreement
Needs clarity on what is actually verified versus forecast.
Land agent
Advising clients
Needs permanence obligations explained before signature.
Schemes and funding
Support schemes this module works with
Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.
Woodland Carbon Code
Provide a quality assurance standard for woodland creation projects generating verifiable carbon units.
Scottish Forestry on behalf of all four governments United KingdomPeatland Code
Provide a standard for peatland restoration projects generating verifiable carbon units.
IUCN UK Peatland Programme EnglandEngland Woodland Creation Offer
Fund the creation of new woodland, with additional payments for public benefits.
Forestry Commission EnglandNature for Climate Peatland Restoration
Fund peatland restoration in England to reduce emissions and improve condition.
Defra / Natural EnglandRates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Hectares registered
- 02Units validated
- 03Units verified and issued
- 04Price achieved per unit
- 05Verification cost per unit
Payment schedule
What is due, and when it lands
Farm support arrives in instalments from several bodies on different calendars. Set against your own overdraft, the question is not how much but when — so the ledger is ordered by date, not by scheme.
| When | Payment | From | Amount | Status |
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| March | Woodland Carbon Code | Scottish Forestry on behalf of all four governments | — | Expected |
| March | Peatland Code | IUCN UK Peatland Programme | — | Agreed |
| September | England Woodland Creation Offer | Forestry Commission | — | Eligible |
| May | Nature for Climate Peatland Restoration | Defra / Natural England | — | Eligible |
| June | Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 | Defra / Rural Payments Agency | — | Eligible |
| March | Countryside Stewardship | Defra / Natural England / Rural Payments Agency | — | Eligible |
- — Agreed and scheduled
- — Claimed, awaiting payment
- — Eligible, unclaimed
What the statuses mean
- Agreed
- Under a signed agreement with a scheduled payment date.
- Expected
- Claimed and assessed; payment date per the published standard.
- Eligible
- Your holding appears to qualify but nothing is claimed yet.
Benchmarking
How this compares with businesses like yours
A cohort is only useful if it is genuinely comparable, so it is built from farm type, soil grade, region and scale rather than from whoever happens to have signed up. Your own figure is never shown to anyone else.
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Hectares registered
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 26 Median 61 Upper quartile 82
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Units validated
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 37 Median 52 Upper quartile 68
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Units verified and issued
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 39 Median 54 Upper quartile 80
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Price achieved per unit
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 22 Median 57 Upper quartile 87
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Verification cost per unit
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 24 Median 57 Upper quartile 85
How the cohort is built
- Farm type
- Matched
- Soil grade
- Matched
- Region
- Matched
- Scale band
- Matched
- Cohort size
- Minimum 12 businesses, or no comparison is shown
Questions answered
What people ask about Carbon Codes
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Carbon Codes is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Pending units mistaken for saleable inventory. Mitigated by explicit separation in every view. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Documents
Take it away with you
Everything here is printable and works on a kitchen table with no signal. Where a document asks for an email address, it says so on the button rather than after you press it.
Pending Versus Verified: What a UK Carbon Code Project Is Actually Worth
The practical handbook for carbon codes: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
carbon codes — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
carbon codes — record template
The record structure the module uses, as a spreadsheet, so a business not yet on the platform can start keeping it correctly today.
Data model reference
Entities, fields and integration points for carbon codes, for advisers and software partners.
See Carbon Codes running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours