[Carbon Market Trends Brief] Global Corporations Expand Long-Term Offtakes of High-Integrity Soil-Based Carbon Credits
2026-10-02
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In the soil-based carbon credit market, companies are increasingly moving beyond the purchase of already-issued credits to securing future credit volumes through long-term offtake agreements at the project development stage. GSK, for example, signed an eight-year agreement with India-based Varaha to purchase 600,000 tonnes of regenerative agriculture credits, while Microsoft signed a 12-year agreement with US-based Indigo Ag for 2.85 million tonnes of soil carbon credits. As long-term offtake agreements become more common, companies can secure future credit volumes in advance, while project developers can gain a more stable source of demand to support project development and financing.
As these long-term contracts expand, corporate procurement criteria are also moving beyond credit quality and price to include a project's ability to generate and deliver the contracted volumes and its operational structure. Soil-based projects require sustained farmer participation, changes in farming practices, and ongoing measurement and verification before reductions can translate into issued credits. This means buyers may increasingly assess not only projected credit volumes, but also factors such as farmer participation, MRV systems and revenue-sharing mechanisms that support the actual delivery of the project.
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