True Credits: A New Standard for Complete and Irreversible Climate Impact

We recently shared The Sky Harvest Vision: a world where every carbon credit is 100% equivalent to the emissions it claims to offset.

That vision is made possible through the True Credit Framework. 

The True Credit Framework 

This isn’t a single methodology or project type. It’s a market-wide framework for how credits are measured and issued. When projects issue credits under this framework, those credits are called True Credits. 

What makes True Credits different? 

– True Credits are 100% complete 

– True Credits are irreversible 

100% Complete 

Most credits today only offset a fraction of the emissions they claim. That’s not opinion—it’s math. Emissions last hundreds of thousands of years, yet many credits only store carbon for a few decades. Even those that do store it for longer often start five, ten, or even twenty years after the emissions occurred. The result is a persistent gap that undermines the credibility of the entire market. 

True Credits close that gap. 

The True Credit Framework precisely calculates the full cost of emissions—accounting for mass, duration, and timing—using the rigorous mathematics first established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s. The benefit of carbon projects is calculated identically. However, where duration or timing of a project fall short, the framework requires multiple tonnes of CO₂ in each credit to guarantee 100% emissions equivalence. 

Mathematically, no other credit on the market achieves this level of completeness in offsetting. 

Irreversible 

Traditional offsets are built on promises: to protect trees, to store carbon underground, to deliver impact decades into the future. Those promises are then backstopped by buffer pools or insurance. While clever, these tools add complexity, create conflicts of interest, and still fail to guarantee permanence. Too often, buffer pools have been undersized or mismanaged—leaving the environment exposed. 

True Credits take a different approach. They measure only what has already happened. Credits are issued only after carbon has been stored, measured, and verified. 

– No speculative promises 

– No risk of reversal 

– No buffer pools 

To issue a True Credit, carbon must have already been stored and verified. Each tonne stored generates a fraction of an offset depending on the duration of storage, and multiple tonnes are bundled to ensure the credit delivers a full, 100% complete offset. 

Put simply: True Credits don’t sell future impact. Future impact will be credited in the future—never before. 

Do True Credits Solve Everything? 

No system is a silver bullet. True Credits don’t replace the need for criteria like additionality or leakage prevention. Those must still be addressed at the methodology or project level, where standard-setters are doing important work. 

But True Credits do solve two of the market’s most persistent problems: reversals and partial offsetting. 

For buyers, they provide certainty. For landowners, they offer flexibility. And for the climate, they deliver the full benefit of every tonne of emissions—completely and irreversibly offset. 

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Whether you’re ready to purchase True Credits or just have a question, we’d love to hear from you.

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