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For Companies: Achieving Your Sustainability Goals

How does Scature assist clients in finding local carbon farmers?

We specialize in creating high-impact partnerships by connecting companies with carbon removal projects located either in their direct value chain or in their local communities. This strategic approach, often called "insetting," transforms a simple offset into a meaningful investment in your own business ecosystem.

Our process involves:

Mapping Your Value Chain: We work with you to analyze your supply chain and identify key regions or agricultural partners where regenerative practices could be implemented.
Sourcing and Vetting Projects: We leverage our network of certified carbon farmers to find existing or potential projects that align with your specific industry (e.g., coffee, cotton, timber) and sustainability goals.
Facilitating the Partnership: We manage the connection, ensuring the project meets rigorous quality standards and that the partnership creates clear value for both your company and the farmer.

This approach offers powerful advantages beyond a standard carbon credit purchase:

Directly Reduce Scope 3 Emissions: By funding carbon removal within your supply chain, you are directly addressing your Scope 3 footprint at its source.
Build Supply Chain Resilience: Supporting regenerative agriculture makes your own suppliers more resilient to climate change, droughts, and soil degradation.
Create an Authentic Story: It provides a powerful, transparent story about your climate action that resonates with customers, investors, and employees. You can point to a specific farm or community that your investment is supporting.

What role do Scature and carbon farmers play in reducing a company's Scope 3 emissions?

Scature and our network of carbon farmers provide one of the most direct and credible ways to address your Scope 3 emissions, which are often the largest and most difficult part of a company's carbon footprint.

The role is very specific: through insetting, we help you fund positive changes within your own value chain.

Here’s how it works in practice:

We connect you with a farmer who supplies your raw materials (e.g., the farm that grows your cotton, coffee, or cocoa).
Your investment funds that farmer's transition to regenerative agriculture.
These new practices remove a verifiable amount of CO₂ from the atmosphere, turning that part of your supply chain into a carbon sink.
The verified carbon removals are then used to account directly against your Scope 3 emissions, specifically within the "purchased goods and services" category.

This approach doesn't just address your carbon footprint on paper; it makes your supply chain fundamentally more sustainable and resilient. You are directly funding the decarbonization of the raw materials critical to your own products.

How does Scature help companies on their Net-Zero journey?

Scature provides the high-integrity solutions needed to tackle hard-to-abate emissions and achieve credible Net-Zero goals. We connect your company directly with local, nature-based carbon removal projects.

Our services are designed to fit into your climate strategy:

High-Quality Carbon Removals: We offer verified carbon removal credits from our network of certified carbon farmers, perfect for neutralizing residual emissions.

Insetting in Your Value Chain: We help you identify and partner with farmers and projects within your own supply chain, allowing you to reduce your Scope 3 emissions directly at the source.

Tangible Co-Benefits: Partnering with our projects goes beyond carbon. You directly support local economies, enhance biodiversity, and improve water and soil health, creating a powerful and transparent sustainability story.

Why is it important for companies to spread their offsets and connect with carbon farmers?

Building a high-integrity carbon credit portfolio isn't just about the number of tons offset; it's about the quality and resilience of your climate strategy. Combining diversification with direct partnerships is the most robust approach.

Just like a financial portfolio, relying on a single asset is risky. Diversifying your carbon credit purchases across different project types (e.g., regenerative agriculture, enhanced weathering, biochar) and geographic regions mitigates risk.

Further, by connecting you directly with carbon farmers, especially within your value chain or local community (insetting), it moves beyond a simple transaction to create strategic value. You know exactly where your money is going and can see the project's impact firsthand. This is the most powerful way to combat accusations of greenwashing. It gives you a powerful, tangible story to share with your customers, investors, and employees, building brand trust and engagement.

What are Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions?

These "scopes" are an accounting framework used to categorize a company's greenhouse gas emissions, making them easier to measure and manage.

‍Scope 1: Direct Emissions. These are emissions from sources your company directly owns or controls. Example: The exhaust from your company's vehicles or emissions from on-site manufacturing processes.

‍Scope 2: Indirect Emissions from Purchased Energy. These are emissions generated to produce the energy your company buys. Example: The emissions from the power plant that supplies your office with electricity.

Scope 3: Indirect Emissions from Your Value Chain. These are all other indirect emissions from activities outside your direct control. This is often the largest and most complex category. Examples: Emissions from producing the raw materials you buy, business travel, employee commutes, and the use and disposal of your products by customers.

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How should a company approach reducing its carbon emissions?

The globally accepted best practice is the mitigation hierarchy. Before considering offsets, a company should focus on reducing its own emissions as much as possible.

Measure: First, understand your footprint across Scopes 1, 2, and 3.
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Avoid & Reduce: Implement strategies to eliminate emissions where possible. This includes improving energy efficiency (reducing Scope 2), optimizing logistics, designing more sustainable products, and working with suppliers to decarbonize your value chain (reducing Scope 3).
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Offset the Rest: For the truly "hard-to-abate" emissions that remain after rigorous reduction efforts, use high-quality carbon credits.

The following graph shows the importance of incorporating reduction with offsets.

How can companies handle their 'hard-to-abate' and Scope 3 emissions?

This is where carbon removal credits and "insetting" become essential tools.

Offsetting: For residual emissions that are currently impossible to eliminate (like in certain industrial processes or agricultural activities), purchasing high-quality carbon removal credits is the recommended solution to neutralize their impact.

Insetting: This involves investing in carbon removal projects within your own value chain. For example, a coffee company can partner with its coffee farmers to implement regenerative practices. This not only removes carbon but also makes the supply chain more resilient and sustainable.

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What is the difference between Net-Zero and Carbon Neutrality?

Both terms relate to climate goals, but they have distinct meanings. Carbon Neutrality typically means balancing all CO₂ emissions by purchasing an equivalent amount of carbon credits (offsets). It's a great first step.

Net-Zero, as defined by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), is a more ambitious, long-term goal. It requires a company to first reduce its own emissions by at least 90% across its entire value chain, and then use high-quality carbon removal credits to neutralize the final, residual 10% of hard-to-abate emissions.

How do I Contextualize my Carbon Emissions?

Understanding the scale of carbon emissions can be difficult, but visualizing it helps.

One ton of CO₂ gas, for instance, would fill a sphere 10 meters (33 feet) across, about the height of a three-story building. It's also the amount of CO₂ that 50 mature trees can absorb in a year...

Here’s what it takes to produce roughly one ton of CO₂ in our daily lives:

Driving: Driving about 4,000 km (~2,500 miles) in an average gasoline car.
Flying: Taking a one-way flight from Paris to New York.
Home Energy: Powering an average European home for about two months.

To put this into perspective, the average person in Europe emits 7-10 tons of CO₂ per year, while the average in the U.S. is around 16 tons. Understanding the weight of these everyday activities helps us see where we can make the most impact.