One of the nation’s leading carbon credit companies, SunOne Solutions
(www.sunonesolutions.com), recently relocated its headquarters to Denver. The company is one of the country’s main developers of agricultural, land management, and environmental projects for registration and trading on carbon exchange markets.

SunOne Solutions’ primary focus is carbon sequestration projects on farmland, forests, grassland, and rangeland in the United States. To date, SunOne Solutions has helped over 120 ranchers from Texas to Montana managing almost 2 million acres of rangeland to register for carbon credits.

Landowners and managers who sequester carbon through sustainable land
management practices can qualify for carbon “offset” credits, and can then benefit financially by selling them on carbon credit markets. For rangeland credits, ranchers are required to have sustainable stocking rates, rotational grazing policies, and a formal grazing plan. The standards for sustainable rangeland management that are followed for the carbon credit program are similar to those developed by the National Resource Conservation Service.

Under current systems, ranchers can make roughly $0.50 per acre per year for sustainable managed rangeland. However, the Obama administration is pushing for a mandatory, federal “cap-and-trade” system where polluting companies would be required to purchase carbon credits which would raise prices considerably. For example in Europe, where a mandatory system exits, carbon credits sell for 10 times as much as in the U.S. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a carbon credit law with the Senate taking up the measure this Fall.

If you are interested in learning more about carbon “offset” credits and how they may apply to your current farm or ranch operation let us know. We will put you in touch with the experts at SunOne Solutions who can evaluate what opportunities are available to you.

Our thanks to the author of this article, John Hodges, CEO, the President of SunOne Solutions. SunOne is a member on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the California Climate Action Reserve (CAR), which are North America’s major carbon credit systems. In addition to the company’s Colorado headquarters, SunOne also has offices in Alabama, California, Nebraska, and Wyoming. SunOne Solutions is developing agriculture methane capture projects on hog and dairy farms in the U.S. as well.

For more information contact SunOne Solutions at info@sunonesolutions.com or 1-303-500-5017.

Article from Mason Morse Ranch Company 2009 Fall Newsletter