Generate Credits - and build your long-term resilience

Generating carbon credits improves your income, your soil health, and your biodiversity; reduces your input costs; and secures your business’s future.

Better rewards for better land management

As a landholder, you can generate credits by making the most of the land you manage. Farmers and estate managers across the UK are already using Beyond Zero’s support to turn good stewardship into certified climate impact — whether on a 30 hectare family farm or a 12,500 hectare estate. Across every type of enterprise — arable, dairy, grassland, livestock, upland moorland, forestry, onions, potatoes, top fruit, and even large farm clusters and landscape scale recovery projects — like these projects, your everyday management can produce measurable environmental gains.

Over the past five years, participating farms have: 

Key Benefits for Farmers

Two pathways - to Net Zero and Beyond

With Beyond Zero your projects can generate carbon credits in two stages:

Our projects are unique in this way, providing a clear path from insetting to offsetting.

The system is designed to provide you – the farmer – with a future-proof solution to navigate increasing demands on supply chain Scope 3 emissions. Once the Net Zero Status has been achieved, we certify all your farm output as Net Zero at the farm gate.

A practical pathway for UK farmers - get rewarded with insets while you transition to Net Zero and beyond.
Built on integrity from the start, these carbon credits reward farms that go beyond Net Zero - delivering the most credible and enduring form of climate impact.

Whole-farm approach to unlock value

When you manage land, you want every part of your farm working for you. With our whole‑farm approach, you can unlock more ways to generate carbon income than schemes that only look at a single activity like woodland, peatland, soil, or rewilding. By treating your land as one integrated system, you avoid unnecessary complexity — and the risk of double‑counting — giving you a clearer and more reliable route to generating carbon income.

Help with funding

You also get support to bring in public and private finance. This funding does the heavy lifting to cover most of the costs of improvements such as woodland or hedgerow planting, agroforestry, cover crops, or creating wetlands — reducing the financial burden and making long‑term changes easier to deliver.

You remain in full control

Once your project begins generating credits, you choose how best to use them:

HOLD

Hold credits if you want to benefit from potential future price increases

USE

Use credits to offset the footprint of new investments — eg. tractor, new building, or winery

TRANSFER

Transfer credits to a non‑agricultural business to help meet its Net Zero commitments

SELL

Sell credits on the voluntary carbon market — whether to local SMEs or global corporates

WIN, WIN, WIN

1

Most farmers recover their project costs within three years. Beyond this, long-term benefits come from REDUCED INPUT COSTS, the use or SALE OF CARBON CREDITS, and the ability to certify your farm outputs as Net Zero.

2

And because Beyond Zero is farmer-led, every project is designed to increase biodiversity and bio-abundance WITHOUT CUTTING FARM PRODUCTIVITY.

3

With a ‘Net Zero first’ approach, the credits you generate are HIGH-INTEGRITY and among the most robust available in the voluntary carbon market — giving you confidence in both the environmental and FINANCIAL RETURN.

Service Comparison

Feature
Baselines
Baselines Plus
Project
Sponsor A Project
Carbon Audit
Carbon Emissions
Emissions
Carbon Removals
UKHab Habitat Map
National Tree Map
National Soil Map
Remote Soil Sensing
Soil Measured at 30cm
Soil Measured at 30cm, 60cm, 90cm
Beyond Carbon™
Biodiversity
Water Quality
Social Value
Farm Production
Knowledge Base
Living Lab & Bank Farm Research
UK Carbon Code
Project Approval
Annual Monitoring
Net Zero Roadmap
Emissions Reduction Plan (Energy, Inputs, etc)
Removals Improvement Plan (New Habitats, Soil Sequestration, etc)
UKCCC Certified Credits
Transition Insets
High-Integrity Credits (beyond Net Zero)
Credit Sales (POA)
Platform
Online Dashboard
RPA (Rural Payments Agency) Field Boundaries
Ordnance Survey Historic Mapping
Earth Observation (NDVI, NDMI, colour infrared, etc)
Protected Sites
Weather Observations
Environment Agency WWNP – Flood Risk
Land Management & Land Use Change Tool
Drone Flights & 360° Imagery (POA)
3D Visualisation
Project Selection
by Size (of farm/estate for credits needed)
by Type (Regenerative Agriculture, Agroforestry, etc)
by Location (local for local)
Experiential Benefit
Site Visits (On-ground Visualisation, Progress Reviews)
Participation (Staff Engagement – Habitat Creation, Wildlife Surveys, etc)
Is this pathway right for you?
Beyond Zero supports progressive farmers and landowners at every stage, whether you:
Wherever you are on your journey to Net Zero

However far along you are, Beyond Zero helps you generate value now and build toward long‑term carbon income. Begin your carbon project