Publications.

Published: 17th September 2025

This report proposes a “Dynamic Performance Benchmarking” approach, which updates counterfactuals at each monitoring period by comparing conservation project outcomes against matched reference areas, using publicly available disturbance data and robust statistical testing.

Published: 12th August 2025

This report evaluates whether the annual aboveground carbon (AGC) increment rates used in SOCIALCARBON projects are ecologically consistent, by benchmarking them against regionally parameterised Chapman-Richards growth curves and spatial predictions from The Nature Conservancy’s Carbon Accumulation Explorer.

Published: 25th July 2025

See the achievements of the Social Carbon Foundation in 2024/25.

Published: 1st November 2024

This whitepaper introduces version 1 of the upcoming Nature Stewardship Credits framework by the Social Carbon Foundation. It outlines the core principles, practical implementation, and highlights selected pilot projects.

Published: 19th September 2024

This paper summarises the current state of wood and charcoal burning cookstove projects, particularly their climate benefit and role in reducing deforestation and forest degradation.

Published: 13th August 2024

See the achievements of the Social Carbon Foundation over the past year, alongside our focus for 2024.

Published: 15th November 2023

This report analyses the current landscape of Afforestation / Reforestation / Revegetation (ARR) in the voluntary carbon market, whilst also highlighting opportunities for improvement.

Published: 20th July 2023

This paper assesses the potential value Blockchain can deliver to the carbon markets, current approaches taken by market participants, and then outlines how SOCIALCARBON and Wilder Earth have approached the utilization of Blockchain and the rationale for doing so.

Published: 13th June 2023

The loss of biodiversity is considered one of the most pressing environmental issues facing the planet today. It has far reaching consequences for ecosystems and society in general.

This paper assesses the need for biodiversity monitoring for successful nature-based solutions, outlining the models available and how SOCIALCARBON approaches biodiversity.

Published: 13 March 2023

View the results achieved in our first year as a full carbon standard.

Published: 21st June 2022

Today, an estimated 80 percent of global wastewater is being discharged untreated into the world’s waterways. The impact of which includes: a loss of ecosystem services and economic opportunities; spreading of “Dead Zones” impacting fisheries, livelihoods and the food chain; and health impacts due to waterborne diseases.

This paper outlines an approach to use climate finance to accelerate the implementation of wastewater treatment plants in developing countries.

Published: 25th October 2022

In this paper we examine the core components of REDD+, results achieved so far, criticisms, and assess whether it offers a long term solution for conservation finance.

In addition, we recommend a hybrid approach, using REDD+ as a solution to address deforestation and degradation at pace, and then transitioning to conservation based projects thereafter.

Published: 6th June 2022

Biodiversity is under threat across the globe and so is conservation. New financing models are required to scale global conservation activities to avoid the collapse of ecosystems.

This paper proposes a new methodology under the SOCIALCARBON Standard to quantify the carbon removals achieved through conservation activities, whilst embedding community and biodiversity co-benefits.