We were unsatisfied with existing methodologies and unwilling to lower our standards. We couldn’t see a scalable path to solving climate change while using carbon credits rooted in speculative promises of future impact. And we couldn’t tolerate the mismatch between the duration of carbon storage and the climate impact of carbon emissions.
 
Time-tested science

So, we wrote a new methodology that is exclusively backward-looking, with no speculative promises of future impact, and accounts for the duration of climate impact to create complete emissions equivalence.

This novel methodology is rooted in a highly quantitative, science-based approach developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s. Using revised radiative forcing models and advances in computing, we were the first to integrate the math into a continuous rather than discrete set of calculations to ensure that each credit equals and offsets the precise climate impact of emitting one metric ton of carbon dioxide. By applying the methodology exclusively to backward-looking carbon storage and accounting for duration before issuance, we eliminate reversal risk and the mismatch between the duration of carbon storage and emissions.
 
Precision

To go a level deeper, climate impact is measured along three dimensions, much like a cube. It can’t be measured any other way. However, today’s carbon market only measures one dimension. It’s like trying to measure the volume of a cube with just the width—it doesn’t work. To be honest, we were flabbergasted and sad when we realized this. It’s the reason we started Sky Harvest. Our methodology measures all three dimensions of climate impact: how much carbon is stored, when the impact occurs, and how long it lasts. That is what we mean by precise.
 
Universal applicability

More importantly, this approach is applicable to every type of carbon credit: direct air capture, afforestation, REDD+, and more. It is our vision that measuring all three dimensions of climate impact becomes the norm across carbon markets, starting with Sky Harvest.