Support for First Instance of ARBRE+
Carbone Terre à Terre (CTaT, a Canadian NbS CDR developer) and Natures Ledger (a Regina-based Natural Assets Registry Operator and NbS Financier) are pleased to announce a collaboration to create a new asset class in nature. “This strategic partnership will expand our portfolio of land-based projects,” said Marty Seymour, CEO of Nature’s Ledger. “CTaT’s ARBRE+ project, whose ARR component has received an AA rating from BeZero Carbon, is an example of the high-integrity projects we want to bring to market. CTaT’s complementary biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) approach offers the potential for more scalable, high-value carbon removal opportunities, creating a foundation for our two organizations to expand our project portfolios and connect new carbon removal assets with global buyers.”
ARBRE+ is strategically placed at the dynamic intersection of CDR high permanence and high nature positivity via the restoration of abandoned old fields to old-growth, steady-state, sugar maple-leading forest biodiversity hotspots. In ARBRE+, ARR and BiCRS activities are integrated on the same sites. The ARR component has an AA rating from BeZero!
With Natures Ledger support, CTaT plans to establish a first instance of 250 hectares in 2027 and 2028. There are over 10,000 hectares of eligible abandoned fields in the Appalachian mountain region and the partners plan to establish over 1000 additional hectares of integrated ARR BiCRS over the following 5 years. The total, emblematically Canadian, removal potential is close to 750k over the next 7 years.
Beyond high value carbon removals, ARBRE+ offers the unique opportunity to hundreds of farmers in the Appalachian mountain region of southeastern Quebec to engage in nature positive agroforestry that will rejuvenate and expand emblematic sugar maple production, while creating these unique eastern hardwood old-growth-to-steady-state forest biodiversity hotspots that have some of the highest permanence values on the planet. Integrated fast growing willow (i.e., dedicated feedstock BiCRS) as windbreaks and inter row shelterwood-like cover for sugar maple and companion species, ensures high sequestration levels right from the beginning and throughout the first 100 years and transition to very durable carbon reservoirs for 500+ years. Such integrated high overall removal values coupled with sugar maple’s inherent high resilience to damaging agents makes it probably the most durable of ARR projects and puts the ARBRE+ ARR component squarely in the CDR offset class.
Carbone Terre à Terre and Natures Ledger are proud to bring this exciting new atmospheric decarbonisation/removal proof-of-concept ARR-BiCRS project to the voluntary and compliant carbon markets.