For carbon buyers
A New Credit for the Methane Forests Absorb
Forests take methane out of the air through their bark. SelvaFlux measures that uptake and turns it into a high-integrity carbon credit, an add-on to the forest-carbon projects many buyers already support. Crediting is about a year or two out. This page is for sustainability teams who want to understand the credit early and register interest before it is available.
Under GWP*, a metric better suited to short-lived gases but not yet approved by registries for crediting, the same uptake represents about 2.1 tCO₂e / ha / yr of near-term climate benefit. That is labeled upside, not a current claim. The full calculations are on the impact page.
Why this credit
What You Would Be Buying
Near-Term Cooling
Methane is short-lived, about a decade in the air, and far more potent than carbon dioxide while it is there. A forest that takes methane up delivers cooling on a timescale that matters now, alongside the longer work of storing carbon.
Measured in the Field
The uptake is measured directly at the bark with scientific-grade instruments, then scaled across the forest with terrestrial laser scanning. The figure a project is credited on comes from field measurement, with a stated uncertainty an auditor can check.
Stacks on Forest Carbon
The methane credit is a module that bolts onto registry-approved reforestation and forest-carbon methodologies. It adds creditable tonnes to projects that already carry their biodiversity, water, and community co-benefits.
The Same Safeguards as the Project
The methane is an ongoing sink that lasts as long as the forest does. It carries the same permanence buffer, leakage accounting, and additionality tests as the project’s forest-carbon credits, tied to the same forest, and rides with them.
A Conservative Basis
Credits are issued on GWP100, the standard 100-year basis registries use today. The figures a buyer sees are the conservative ones. The larger near-term benefit a methane-appropriate metric would assign is shown only as labeled upside.
Independently Verified
SelvaFlux does not certify its own credits. A registry-approved methodology sets the rules, an accredited third party audits the project, and the registry issues the credit.
How we know it is real
Grounded in Published Science
That forests take methane up through their bark is established in the peer-reviewed literature, including a 2024 paper in Nature co-authored by our founder, and corroborated by independent research groups. The terrestrial laser scanning methods behind the scaling are published as well. You can read the measurement work and the corroborating studies directly.
Status
Where This Stands Today
We are measuring at pilot sites across the tropics and building the evidence base. The crediting module is in concept consideration at Gold Standard (NMC 187), and a parallel module at Verra (M0423) is on hold pending a Q1 2027 reassessment; crediting is about a year or two out. Buyers who register interest now help signal demand for the credit, which is what moves a new methodology up the queue, and will be among the first contacted when issuance opens.
Early access
Be First in Line
Download the buyer primer to read and forward internally, and register interest to be notified when credits are available. Registering is non-binding and is not a purchase.
We use your note only to keep you posted on availability.