Drawn Carbon simplifies and accelerates carbon project development. Instead of spending years on complex technical work and high consulting fees, participants join with a pre-validated PD and follow a standardized process. We manage Verra and VVB coordination, reducing staffing needs and development costs. Our approach also improves capital access through investor connections, flexible financing, and a built-in offtake network, creating a faster, more accessible path from implementation to credit issuance.
There’s no limit. Participants can register as many areas as they like, as long as those areas meet the eligibility criteria and the participant is in good standing with their existing activity areas’ KPIs. All participants can scale over time, but those with less experience may start with smaller or less frequent registrations to ensure activities remain manageable. As participants demonstrate postive performance, limits re lowered to support sustainable, capacity-aligned activity growth.
Drawn Carbon is designed to be accessible, so no carbon experience or large teams are required. However, participants must be able to execute planned activities and complete onboarding processes using the platform. For those needing additional support, our Auxiliary Services team can assist with targeted technical tasks through custom scopes of work.
Our typical onboarding process for qualified participants takes 1-2 weeks, depending on your documentation readiness.
For ARR, eligible areas must support reforestation or afforestation on non-forest land and must exclude wetlands, tidal wetlands, and organic soils. Additional criteria may apply depending on the participant’s planting design and activity area location. Not all regions may be available.
For REDD+, only regions with official Verra risk maps and Activity Data are currently eligible, and may be further limited by Drawn Carbon. As Verra releases risk maps for additional regions, our coverage will expand accordingly. Within eligible areas, we focus on high-deforestation risk zones, excluding peatlands and wetland or tidal wetland areas, even within existing ownership boundaries such as private or conservation lands. This targeted approach improves impact, streamlines implementation, and reduces the risk of misallocated resources.
ARR participants must define activities that are designed to produce measurable vegetative enhancement. Our design supports small scale and large-scale afforestation and reforestation and that supports direct planting and/or natural restoration.
REDD+ participants must design activities that prevent unplanned deforestation from logging, settlements, infrastructure expansion, agriculture, ranching, or aquaculture. These may include establishing legal protections, supporting local communities to reduce conversion pressures, and implementing monitoring systems within the project area.
Depending on your readiness to implement activities and the rate that GHGs are sequestered or reduced in your activities, you may be able to generate credits within months of onboarding. For other types of activities that require time to demonstrate performance, like tree growth in the northern hemisphere, it may take several years. Our Auxiliary Services team can generate customized projections.
There is no limit, but revenue potential depends on several variables and is highly context specific. Key factors include your activity design (e.g., tree species, planting density), regional conditions (such as climate, forest productivity, mortality), and your project economics. Ultimately, revenue will be drive by volume and price. Drawn Carbon is designed to maximize price by demonstrating integrity and quality.
Yes, many labels are possible, though timing and platform availability of some labels are not planned until 2026:
That’s allowed, and it’s encouraged. Drawn Carbon sets a high bar for integrity and quality, but you’re free to design and implement activities that go well beyond it. Whether you’re aiming for deeper climate impact, stronger social outcomes, or enhanced biodiversity benefits, the platform supports you. Because you own your credits once issued, you’re free to market them independently and set a value that reflects the full scope of your impact.
You’re free to leave the Foundations project at any time. Any enrolled activity areas can be removed and transferred to a different project pursuant to the terms of our commercial agreement and Verra requirements, whether developed independently or with another service provider.
However, once outside Foundations, you would need to develop a new, standalone project description and follow the traditional carbon development pathway, including managing validation, registration, and credit issuance without the assistance of Drawn Carbon
Drawn Carbon is working to implement a platform-wide messaging and chat feature. This will facilitate the sharing of lessons learns and general collaboration in activity implementation.
Drawn Carbon is not a broker or transaction platform. We facilitate discovery and connection to activity areas and participants you are interested in, but all contracting, and fund disbursement occur directly between participants and financiers outside the platform. Drawn Carbon does not intermediate or execute financial transactions.
Drawn Carbon reduces risk through four key mechanisms: projects are developed and managed by EP Carbon, a team with over 16 years of carbon project experience; participants join an already-validated project, minimizing early-stage uncertainty; a dedicated Quality Assurance team conducts internal audits and removes underperforming participants; and risk is further diversified by distributing activities across multiple independent project instances. For discerning participants, Drawn Carbon can insulate risk by replicating project design for the exclusive use of specific entities (see FAQ below).
Yes, you can own your project which is separate from any other Foundations project on the platform.
For example, a large NGO wants to own their own project and control participation in their project. In his example, Drawn Cabon would duplicate its already proven Foundations project design for the large NGO, establishing a replicate copy for the exclusive use by the large NGO. Because the duplicate project remains compatible with the Drawn Carbon platform, the platform can still be used to operate and commercialize the duplicate project.
The platform can also be white labeled to create a custom brand experience.
While Drawn Carbon facilitates discovery and connection, all credit purchases, payment terms, and retirements are managed directly between buyers and sellers. The platform does not process transactions or act as a payment intermediary.
Drawn Carbon is working to implement a platform-wide messaging and chat features. This will facilitate introduction and discovery between participant suppliers and credit buyers.