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To limit global warming, historical emissions and hard-to-abate residual emissions must be removed from the atmosphere. This process, known as Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), is also referred to as negative emissions.
Not all carbon credits represent negative emissions. Projects that avoid emissions, such as renewable energy or improved cookstoves, or that reduce emissions through efficiency gains do not remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. These activities prevent future emissions but do not reverse past emissions.
Only projects that generate a net physical removal of carbon dioxide, such as afforestation, enhanced forest management, biochar, or direct air capture, qualify as CDR or negative emissions.
Key distinction: Avoided or reduced emissions ≠ negative emissions. Only a durable or temporary net CO₂ uptake counts as a negative emission.
Negative emissions have an essential role in any IPCC scenario in which global warming is kept below 2 degrees of warming. The reason is limited reduction potential and slow decarbonization as well as high residual emissions in key, energy-intensive industries.
Lastly, negative emissions, or CDR, are key to addressing historical emissions.
All projects are developed in accordance with ISO 14064-2 and ISO 14064-3 and are validated and verified by Control Union Certifications Germany GmbH. The Control Union is accredited by the German national accreditation body (DAkkS) to validate and verify climate protection projects and is also recognized by the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE).
Biomass is, by definition, a temporary carbon sink. That’s why we verify storage annually to ensure performance is delivered. Through yearly renewal of carbon credits, long-term storage is continuously maintained.
Durability refers not only to the duration of storage but also to the risk of reversal, that is, the risk of the re-release of CO₂ during the storage period. OXO Earth minimizes this reversal risk by renewing the entire carbon storage annually. This creates a continuous sequence of one tonne stored over time, verified each year.
At any time, a transition to permanent removals via geological storage remains possible.
Under current forest management practice, our partner forests typically undergo annual harvesting. That is the baseline or business-as-usual scenario. If forest owners choose to defer part of that harvest by at least one year, trees that would otherwise have been removed stay in the forest and continue to absorb CO₂. That pause leads to additional biomass growth, which in turn increases net CO₂ uptake vis-a-vis the baseline.
All project forests are located exclusively in Germany.
To limit global warming, historical emissions and hard-to-abate residual emissions must be removed from the atmosphere. This process, known as Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), is also referred to as negative emissions.
Not all carbon credits represent negative emissions. Projects that avoid emissions, such as renewable energy or improved cookstoves, or that reduce emissions through efficiency gains do not remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. These activities prevent future emissions but do not reverse past emissions.
Only projects that generate a net physical removal of carbon dioxide, such as afforestation, enhanced forest management, biochar, or direct air capture, qualify as CDR or negative emissions.
Key distinction: Avoided or reduced emissions ≠ negative emissions. Only a durable or temporary net CO₂ uptake counts as a negative emission.
Negative emissions have an essential role in any IPCC scenario in which global warming is kept below 2 degrees of warming. The reason is limited reduction potential and slow decarbonization as well as high residual emissions in key, energy-intensive industries.
Lastly, negative emissions, or CDR, are key to addressing historical emissions.
Negative emissions, also referred to as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), can be used to address the share of corporate greenhouse gas emissions that cannot be eliminated through direct reductions. Companies can:
Carbon removal is a necessary complement to emissions reduction.
Removing carbon enables companies to meet science-based climate targets, comply with emerging standards, and demonstrate environmental leadership. When sourced from high-integrity projects, CDR is a measurable, verifiable, and essential part of achieving true net-zero.
OXO Earth is using a proprietary Improved Forest Management (IFM) / Extended Rotation Age (ERA) methodology, certified by the Control Union Certifications GmbH. Projects developed using this methodology generated Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) credits. Moreover, avoided emissions are also generated. However, credits for avoided emissions are not considered and thus not marketed.
The treatment of carbon sinks within national greenhouse gas inventories remains a legal and policy grey area. Some authorities, such as the German Environment Agency (UBA), view the use of carbon credits from German forest sinks by companies for their own climate targets as double claiming, since these sinks are already included in Germany’s national accounting under the Paris Agreement. Others maintain that no double claiming occurs, as corporate and national accounting follow separate purposes and operate on distinct ledgers.
Forthcoming EU legislation, notably the Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF), and evolving national positions are expected to provide more precise guidance. Until such rules are harmonised, the Contribution Claim model offers both the highest integrity and the greatest legal certainty: it transparently documents a company’s financial support for additional climate action without offsetting or counting these contributions towards the company’s own emissions balance. This approach minimises the risk of misleading claims and aligns with current and anticipated EU consumer protection and sustainability disclosure requirements.
Contribution claims are a way for companies to finance additional, high-quality climate action beyond their value chain without using it to offset or “neutralise” their own emissions. They do not count towards the company’s carbon footprint or “carbon neutrality” claims, but transparently support mitigation activities that are additional, not double-counted, and scientifically robust.
Doing without a concrete compensation claim avoids greenwashing risks, increases legal certainty, and ensures that financed climate protection complements (rather than replaces) internal decarbonisation. Contribution claims can be communicated in sustainability reporting or marketing, provided the wording is transparent, verifiable, and does not imply that the company or its products are already climate-neutral. OXO Earth supports its clients in drafting and communicating individual company-specific contribution claims to maximize reporting and marketing impact without legal risks.
Biomass is, by definition, a temporary carbon sink. That’s why we verify storage annually to ensure performance is delivered. Through yearly renewal of carbon credits, long-term storage is continuously maintained.
Durability refers not only to the duration of storage but also to the risk of reversal, that is, the risk of the re-release of CO₂ during the storage period. OXO Earth minimizes this reversal risk by renewing the entire carbon storage annually. This creates a continuous sequence of one tonne stored over time, verified each year.
At any time, a transition to permanent removals via geological storage remains possible.
Under current forest management practice, our partner forests typically undergo annual harvesting. That is the baseline or business-as-usual scenario. If forest owners choose to defer part of that harvest by at least one year, trees that would otherwise have been removed stay in the forest and continue to absorb CO₂. That pause leads to additional biomass growth, which in turn increases net CO₂ uptake vis-a-vis the baseline.
All projects are developed in accordance with ISO 14064-2 and ISO 14064-3 and are validated and verified by Control Union Certifications Germany GmbH. The Control Union is accredited by the German national accreditation body (DAkkS) to validate and verify climate protection projects and is also recognized by the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE).
You need a forest management plan that is no more than 10 years old and shapefiles of your forest area.
OXO Earth Technologies analyzes ground-based measurements and remote sensing data such as satellite imagery. This process is supported by machine learning to precisely quantify the carbon content of forests.
At the end of the project term, each project is verified by Control Union Certifications Germany GmbH.
Forest owners are being paid at the end of the project period, after one year.
All project forests are located exclusively in Germany.
Biomass is, by definition, a temporary carbon sink. That’s why we verify storage annually to ensure performance is delivered. Through yearly renewal of carbon credits, long-term storage is continuously maintained.
Durability refers not only to the duration of storage but also to the risk of reversal, that is, the risk of the re-release of CO₂ during the storage period. OXO Earth minimizes this reversal risk by renewing the entire carbon storage annually. This creates a continuous sequence of one tonne stored over time, verified each year.
At any time, a transition to permanent removals via geological storage remains possible.
Under current forest management practice, our partner forests typically undergo annual harvesting. That is the baseline or business-as-usual scenario. If forest owners choose to defer part of that harvest by at least one year, trees that would otherwise have been removed stay in the forest and continue to absorb CO₂. That pause leads to additional biomass growth, which in turn increases net CO₂ uptake vis-a-vis the baseline.
OXO Earth entwickelt lokale Klimaschutzprojekte mit deutschen Waldbesitzern und vermarktet extern zertifizierte negative Emissionen an Unternehmen.
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