Agricultural and Industrial Carbon Capture

Proprietary soil organic carbon analysis and emission offset (carbon credit) identification, application, validation and verification for all industries and processes

What are Emission Offset Credits (Carbon Credits)?

 

The VCS (Verified Carbon Standard) Program is the world’s most widely used voluntary GHG (Green House Gas) program. Over 1,781 certified VCS projects have collectively reduced or removed more than 877 million tonnes of carbon and other GHG emissions from the atmosphere.

Individuals and corporations around the world are recognizing the importance of reducing their GHG emissions. As a result, many of them are reducing their carbon footprints through energy efficiency and other measures. Quite often, however, it is not possible for these entities to meet their targets or eliminate their carbon footprint, at least in the near term, with internal reductions alone, and they need a flexible mechanism to achieve these aspirational goals. Enter the carbon markets.

By using the carbon markets, entities can neutralize, or offset, their emissions by retiring carbon credits generated by projects that are reducing GHG emissions elsewhere. Of course, it is critical to ensure, or verify, that the emission reductions generated by these projects are actually occurring. This is the work of the VCS Program – to ensure the credibility of emission reduction projects.

Once projects have been certified against the VCS Program’s rigorous set of rules and requirements, project developers can be issued tradable GHG credits that we call Verified Carbon Units (VCUs).  Those VCUs can then be sold on the open market and retired by individuals and companies as a means to offset their own emissions. Over time, this flexibility channels financing to clean, innovative businesses and technologies.

Breakdown of Carbon Credits

  • Every Carbon Credit application is unique with many methods for quantifying emissions offsets.

  • Any industry, company or person can generate an emissions offset by creating  energy efficiency, many of these efficiencies can be calculated as CO2e, verified and monetized as a salable credit.

  • Carbon dioxide taken from the atmosphere and stabilized in a product or stored for more than 25 years is considered sequestered carbon. 

What We Do

 

In the emerging carbon credit market, agriculture has been a focus for carbon sequestration and offsets. There are also very good industry practices which qualify for carbon credits. Carbon sequestration, is practices that remove carbon from the atmosphere. Carbon offsets are performing work more efficiently to reduce the carbon footprint of the work. 

We qualify and quantify the carbon credits available for farmers and industry. We work with protocol developers to help develop the protocols for large projects. We take care of all required documentation for the application of the credits for all industries and work practices. Our clients receive the credits and money they are owed for their work. 

Using Cybertiks technology, we are able to remotely sample soil as an input into BridgeTech’s proprietary process of modelling soil organic carbon sequestration.  We then create a project for the client, submit to the carbon market verifying bodies, and broker the offsets to a willing buyer. 

Using Cybertiks technology we are able to remotely sample the soil, to determine nutrient and mineral requirements for all kinds of crops.

Provide services and consulting for non standard water treatment systems, processes and technology advancement.

Types of Emissions Credits

  • Protocol carbon market

    • Alberta TIER (technology innovation and Emissions reduction Regulation)

    • Canada: Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit system

  • Voluntary market

    • VERRA verifies voluntary carbon credits by the verified carbon standard (VCS) program

  • Clean Fuels Regulation

    • Clean Fuel standard aims to reduce Canada’s carbon footprint by 15% by 2030.

    • Specifically focused on reduction of carbon emissions from fuel production and emissions.

  • Low Carbon Fuel Standard 

    • Similar to clean fuel standard, it is focused in smaller regions with tougher emission goals.

 

Soil Organic Carbon

SOC Overview

  • Soil Organic Carbon is the available carbon stored in soils that has not been converted to carbon dioxide or its analogues.

  • The organic carbon can be stored in the soil for long periods of time stabilized as cellulose or other carbon compounds.

  • The carbon also has the potential to be converted to carbon dioxide or methane.

  • Soil modelling and baseline analysis help to trend the storage, loss and emissions from soil organic carbon

  • High biomass non standard crops can store up to 12tonne of carbon per acre per year.

  • Intercropping and cover cropping have the potential to store 5tonne of carbon in the soil per year.

SOC Process

  • BridgeTech and Cybertiks have partnered to produce fast turn around Soil Organic Carbon application

  • Using AI, multispectral imaging from satellites and drones, and soil modelling BridgeTechrequires minimal information from the client to collect all of the data and information to apply for international voluntary carbon credits.

  • This application can be applied for yearly and fully automated based on the clients rotational cycle.

  • Application, registration, marketing and audit of the credits is completed on contingency to the client at a rate of 25%.

Soil Organic Carbon on native grasses and shrubs example

  • Grasses, shrubs, and a variety of plants planted and then established.

  • Based on Canadian soils, First 3-5 years have the highest carbon sequestration of approximately 1 tonne CO2e / acre , gradually tapering down over the next 3-5 years to approximately 0.1 tonne CO2e / acre,  forming an average baseline carbon sequestering for the duration of the lifespan of the green space.

  • Net soil organic carbon offset generation will be highly variable, and dependent on the practices and energy used to plant and establish the green space.  Energy used to develop space will be subtracted from soil organic carbon sequestration to achieve net soil organic carbon offsets. 

  • 1,000,000 acres planted will generate approx. 1,000,000 tonne CO2e gross for the first 3-5 years.

  • After 10 years, 1,000,000 acres will generate approx. 100,000 tonne CO2e gross for the remainder of the lifespan.

  • There will be other means of emissions offset generation through recycling, landfill diversion, water efficiencies, low carbon fuel standard, and many others. 

 
 

Organic Carbon Landfill Diversion Example

  • Excavation waste is diverted from the landfill.

  • Contains 6% organic carbon

  • 100,000t of waste is diverted

  • 6,000t of organic carbon diverted

  • 22,000t of CO2e diverted (without methane diversion credit)

  • $50 per ton

  • $1,100,000 in potential credit generation

  • Total Offset 1st Project : $ 1,000,000 Value of Emission Offset (calculated )

  • 25 % Total Fee $ 250,000 Total Fee for service paid by client

  • Prepaid Fee $ ( 80,000) prepaid fees paid by client

  • Balance due $ 170,000 once funds are ready for client final payment paid

  • TO: client $ 750,000 VALUE of Emission Offset (market)

  • 5%-15% variable rate $ (10,000) rate varies depends on Broker rates 5%-15%

  • BALANCE TO MDX $ 740,000 Balance after Trading Fees paid using a 10% rate for the fee