Trimble announces platform to simplify carbon market participation

Trimble has announced the Connected Climate Exchange, a carbon marketplace with a farm-centric approach to connect and aggregate data across the agriculture supply chain. 

Trimble has designed the Connected Climate Exchange to simplify participation in carbon markets and connecting to companies with sustainability programs. Trimble is familiar with the carbon market, working with farmers since 2007 to sell nearly 5 million tons of agricultural carbon offsets in Canada, earning over $50 million for farmers.

The new platform connects with Trimble Ag’s software and third-party farm management information systems to collect data across farm organizations, and verify it for carbon credits. The Connected Climate exchange platform helps farmers to: 

• Centrally manage sustainability projects and customers.
• Perform calculations to report on carbon emissions, reductions and removals.
• Provide reporting and visualization to sustainability impacts.
• Calculate payments.
• Generate cross-sector supply chain insights.

Agronomists and other farm consultants are able to layer in additional data to ensure field information is centralized and consistent. 

Once collected in Trimble’s system, the data is verified to ensure all documentation is correct and accounted for. It is then automatically submitted to carbon registries where companies can purchase credits to meet sustainability targets and track emissions reduction programs. 

“Farmers have long struggled to comprehensively report and tell their sustainability story in quantifiable and verifiable terms,” says Darren Howie, director, emerging digital and sustainability, Trimble. “They need a technology solution that brings greater value and helps bring structure to disconnected data. While many carbon programs work by identifying a specific practice to implement and search for farms, Trimble is partnering with agronomy-focused, enterprise agriculture companies to optimize interventions at the farm level, then aggregate the impacts to support emission reduction programs for companies upstream in the agriculture value chain.”

For more information about the Connected Climate exchange, visit agriculture.trimble.com.