Helsinki, 17th September 2026 - Puro.earth, the world's leading market infrastructure provider for engineered carbon dioxide removal (CDR), today announced the launch of its Environmental Attributes Registry, marking a move into the adjacency of environmental attributes and extending its infrastructure into new environmental market pathways. The initial focus will be to track agricultural carbon intensity, with additional environmental attribute verticals to follow in 2027.
Perdue Farms and Arva Intelligence will be the first adopters of the new Registry, bringing science- and data-driven agricultural programs onto a common system of record. The two companies are founding members of an effort to organize institutional market governance around an environmental board of trade, or EBOT, to bring agricultural and supply-chain participants across the sector together around common rules for environmental attribute markets.
As initial adopters, Perdue Farms and Arva Intelligence will deploy environmental attribute certificate programs through Puro.earth’s Registry. This will provide real-world applications for the new registry and help demonstrate how verified agricultural data can be tracked, compared, and used across supply chains.
EBOT forming to bring common standards to regenerative agriculture
This EBOT initiative initially endorsed by Perdue Farms and Arva Intelligence is being established to fill the void of independent market rules and common Environmental Attribute Certificate (EAC) governance, including program measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) standards, technology-driven verification protocols, and market infrastructure, for environmental attributes generated through regenerative agriculture.
The objective is to create a common institution, governed by its members and run by world-class infrastructure partners, to support multiple end-buyer requirements.
Initially, it will support four categories of environmental attributes, with the infrastructure providing scientific rigour, traceability and environmental-attribute ownership for:
Ben Hildebrand, Director of Sustainability at Perdue Farms said: “Agricultural supply chains need a system that is transparent, credible and functional — one that acknowledges the work being done in the field and stands up to scrutiny from buyers and regulators. Working with Puro.earth made sense to us - it is market infrastructure that is already trusted and widely used, so we are not asking users to take a chance on something untested. As a founding member of this environmental board of trade, we want to help set common rules that give producers a fair route to participate and give buyers confidence in what they are purchasing.”
Philip Harris, Chief Revenue Officer at Arva Intelligence said: "Arva Intelligence has spent a decade measuring and verifying outcomes at the field level. Our constraint isn't the science or farmer demand - it's the lack of a scalable, trusted market mechanism. This environmental board of trade builds consensus on standards and puts them on market infrastructure designed to operate globally. Puro.earth thinks in terms of building global markets, and that's the partnership this work requires. Together we can bring stewardship-based income to farmers and deliver nature-based solutions to agriculture-dependent companies worldwide."
Puro.earth’s new Environmental Attributes Registry initially tracking agricultural CI
Puro.earth’s new Environmental Attributes Registry will be run separately from Puro.earth's CDR offering as a new, distinct adjacency, however still applying its existing registry infrastructure, governance and rigour that underpins it. Agricultural Carbon Intensity (CI) is the first environmental attribute the Registry will track, though this will be readily expandable to other environmental attributes in the future.
Under the initial application, the Registry will connect verified field-level data to auditable environmental attributes, giving buyers, auditors and regulators transparent, verified data relating to origin, ownership, transfer history, retirement status and claim eligibility. The infrastructure is designed to prevent double counting, improve traceability and provide greater confidence in environmental claims across agricultural supply chains.
For tracking agricultural CI, the Registry will leverage MillPont's Environmental Trust Infrastructure (METI) geospatial identity and clearing layer, embedding independent field-level geospatial provenance and program-level cross-checking in every claim and outcome. This will give a single, interoperable, cross-checked record of each acre's CI, so buyers and regulators can rely on a claim before it is transacted, financed or reported.
Puro.earth's role will be to attest that existing third-party methodologies for specific crops and use cases - including those within compliance frameworks - are implemented correctly by suppliers. Over time, it is expected that Puro.earth will develop its own agricultural regenerative methodologies, applying the same independent scientific and industry rigour used in developing its carbon removal methodologies.
Tracking carbon intensity to lower embedded emissions, support healthier soil and create more resilient supply chains
How a crop is grown shapes its impact on emissions, soil health and climate resilience, but that story disappears as commodities move into complex food and agriculture supply chains. The new Registry links each commodity to a verified carbon intensity score at farm and field level - data buyers cannot decarbonise or preferentially source without, given that Scope 3 emissions dominated by on-farm production can account for 80-95% of total emissions and CI varies enormously between producers of the same crop.
Practices that lower a crop's CI — reduced tillage, cover cropping, smarter nutrient management — also build healthier, more climate-resilient soil, so making CI visible and rewardable gives farmers a direct commercial incentive to adopt them. In biofuel production, feedstock CI is largely set on the farm, with lower-CI farming translating directly into a lower-CI fuel.
Regulation is driving demand for institutional-grade verified CI data
Regulatory momentum is pulling in the same direction. The SBTi's FLAG guidance references the need for a robust registry to store environmental attribute certificates; the GHG Protocol's Land Sector and Removal Standard, effective 1 January 2027, requires land-unit-level spatial boundaries and single allocation of each reduction or removal across the value chain; the EU's CSRD mandates Scope 3 reporting; and the US 45Z credit is driving near-term demand for verified clean-fuel CI data. No equivalent registry currently exists for agricultural products.
The Registry is built to support both the regulatory obligations placed on companies and their voluntary action on agricultural carbon intensity, with a single verified record able to serve multiple use cases, compliance frameworks and reporting requirements.
Jan-Willem Bode, President of Puro.earth commented: “Our new Environmental Attributes Registry is a natural extension of our leadership in building a robust durable carbon removals market, applying the same technology and expertise to a new asset class. As crop producers and buyers come under pressure from climate risks and regulatory scrutiny, the new Registry helps them lower their carbon intensity, prove it and be rewarded for it, while building healthier soil and more resilient supply chains. The same approach extends to many other commodities, and we look forward to expanding into further environmental attribute markets. Being selected as EBOT’s Registry, and working with its established founding members as the initiative takes shape, is a testament to the rigour and trust Puro.earth brings to the market.”
The environmental board of trade is in formation. Its governance model, membership framework, methodology approval process and onboarding timetable will be confirmed as the initiative is further established, and the founding members expect to welcome further producers, buyers and technical partners over the coming weeks and months.
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About EBOT
The environmental board of trade is an industry-led governance and market-infrastructure initiative formed to support credible and scalable agricultural environmental programs. It brings together agricultural, supply-chain, registry, technology and environmental-market expertise to develop common standards and controls for data integrity, verification, traceability and environmental claims. EBOT will operate as a 501 (c)(6) non-profit.
The founding members are inviting interested producers, consumer-product companies, food and fuel companies, registries, verifiers, technology providers, and other prospective participants to join this EBOT and learn more at www.ebot.earth
About Puro.earth
Puro.earth is the world's leading market infrastructure provider for engineered carbon dioxide removal (CDR). We provide the certification frameworks, scientific standards, and digital systems that allow engineered CDR to scale as an investment-grade market.
At the core of this infrastructure is the Puro Standard - the world's first dedicated standard built for the needs of an engineered CDR market. We certify suppliers under the Puro Standard that durably store carbon dioxide for at least 100 years, and in many cases over 1,000 years. To date, we have certified over 100 engineered CDR projects, resulting in the issuance of over 1.8 million CO₂ Removal Certificates (CORCs) in the Puro Registry as verified, traceable, investable assets. Our infrastructure is trusted by over 800 companies worldwide to procure carbon removals with confidence.
Puro.earth is an ICVCM Eligible Carbon Crediting Programme.
For more information, visit www.puro.earth, and follow us on LinkedIn.
About Perdue Farms
Perdue Farms is a fourth-generation, family-owned, U.S. food and agriculture company. Through our belief in responsible food and agriculture, we are empowering consumers, customers, and farmers through trusted choices in products and services. Perdue Foods consists of a premium protein portfolio, including our flagship PERDUE® brand, Niman Ranch®, Coleman Natural®, Pasturebird®, and Yummy®, as well as our pet brands, Full Moon® and Spot Farms®, and is available through various channels including retail, foodservice, club stores and our direct-to-consumer website, Perdue.Farms.com. Perdue AgriBusiness is a leading merchandiser, processor, and exporter of agricultural products and the largest U.S. manufacturer of specialty, organic, and non-GMO oils. It also ranks as one of the largest suppliers of organic feed ingredients in the world. Now in our company’s second century, we never use drugs for growth promotion in raising poultry and livestock, and we are actively advancing our animal welfare programs. Our brands are leaders in no-antibiotics-ever and in USDA-certified organic proteins. Learn more at Corporate.PerdueFarms.com.
About Arva Intelligence
Arva Intelligence is an environmental intelligence (EI) engine linking agriculture and the corporations that depend on it - supporting profitable farms, resilient supply chains, and defensible reporting. Our AI optimization engine is fed by primary field-level data and grounded in foundational scientific models, helping global brands, biofuel producers, and carbon buyers turn regenerative agriculture into a supply chain advantage by reducing emissions, de-risking supply, and improving soil health. The result is verified, audit-ready outcomes for Scope 3 emission reductions, biofuel credits, and carbon dioxide removals (CDRs). From farmer enrollment and compensation to measurement, verification, and audit-ready delivery, Arva Intelligence runs the full program for the clients we serve. Since 2023, we've helped farmers regenerate more than 4.4 million acres across nine countries, reducing carbon emissions by 3.4 million metric tonnes CO₂e and returning more than $100 million to the farmers who did the work. Founded by farmers, rooted in a decade of field research, and built on models co-developed with the US Department of Energy, Arva Intelligence is uniquely positioned to turn regenerative agriculture into the global standard. For more information, visit www.arva.com.
About MillPont
MillPont operates METI™ (MillPont Environmental Trust Infrastructure), an independent geospatial clearinghouse for environmental claims covering +3B acres of environmental market activity globally. METI assigns each enrolled parcel a Secure Source ID (SSID) - a tamper-proof, interoperable, cryptographically secured digital deed linking a defined geospatial boundary to the outcomes claimed from it and the timeline those claims cover. Every submission is checked against METI's global Source Ledger and public program registries to detect overlapping or duplicative claims before they reach the market, delivering identity, integrity, and trust at the source across forestry, agricultural (soil carbon), and biodiversity markets. For more information visit www.millpont.com.
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