Our Mission
We are commited to empowering landowners, investors, and carbon buyers to seamlessly participate in carbon projects by streamlining every step of the process.
Our goal is to help restore and conserve standing forests on a global scale by developing high-integrity, robust and transparent forest carbon projects with impactful co-benefit strategies, prioritizing the interests of the people and places our projects support.
We promote benefit sharing for vulnerable communities, developing projects that withstand external scrutiny of both climate and community benefits. Through this approach, our work ensures carbon markets deliver real value to all stakeholders through rigorous and transparent processes.
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16
Years of Experience
45+
Successful Projects
90+
Million Tons Mitigated
Our Origin Story
Drawn Carbon is EP Carbon's flagship initiative dedicated to advancing innovative carbon project development.
EP Carbon has been an advocate for carbon-financed conservation and restoration for the past 16 years.
From our engagement with the Chicago Climate Exchange, adoption of the Verified Carbon Standard, and subsequent development of projects in both the voluntary and compliance markets, we've evolved, adapted, and grown with carbon markets.
Today, we continue pioneering new approaches to high-integrity carbon project development through our global Foundations REDD and ARR projects, which leverages our new digital platform to streamline project development and management, ensure transparent documentation, enable real-time monitoring, and provide verifiable impact reporting for all project stakeholders.
We provide all essential services to generate verified carbon credits from your climate mitigation activities that meet the highest quality standards for investors and credit offtakers. Our marketplace connects impact-focused investors with Foundations project participants, while giving credit buyers full transparency through detailed tracking and comprehensive documentation.
Our Values
Additionality
Drawn Carbon requires a strong body of evidence to prove proposed mitigation activities are additional. We conduct a rigorous assessment to ensure there are insurmountable barriers to project activities such that they would not occur without carbon revenue. This confirms the real climate benefit of your projects.
Realistic Baselines
Drawn Carbon has a systematic approach to baseline scenario analysis with requirements for each project category. We target high risk areas and apply an objective risk analysis to ensure credibility. We use jurisdictional baselines, and ensure projects are compared to the best "without the project" scenario.
Accurate Climate and Co-Benefits
We require project participants to design activities that produce verifiable climate and community benefits. We support participants in this process by leveraging Impact Inside, which enables the design of monitoring practices, measurement of results, and provides transparency to stakeholders and credit buyers.
Permanence
We believe that we need both short-term and long-term climate solutions. We believe that forests can be a long-term solution, if projects are well planned and have strong community support. We work with our partners to build projects that will be operated for decades and manage natural risks.
Stakeholder Benefits
Our mission is to promote benefit sharing for vulnerable people and places. We require projects to incorporate stakeholder feedback in the project's design and benefit sharing plans. Throughout a project's lifetime, Drawn Carbon helps monitor projects to ensure equitable distribution of these benefits.
Transparency
Drawn Carbon respects the confidentiality of our projects during development, but we ask for transparency with regard to analyses and materials upon project registration. Projects benefit when stakeholders and the public can examine documents and calculations, and understand clearly the distribution of benefits.