We develop science-based land-use systems and technologies that integrate carbon removal, biodiversity enhancement, and economic transition.
Our work connects farm-level action with national climate goals, fostering partnerships between farmers, community organisations, and both public and private sectors.
Emerging Scientific Consensus
Global corporate climate action is evolving unevenly. Some companies are deepening their decarbonisation efforts by investing in high-integrity carbon removals. Others are slowing their ambition or extending timelines as economic and political pressures shape decision-making.
Across this landscape, strategies vary, but the need for credible, science-aligned pathways to address residual emissions is becoming clearer.
Biochar Stands Out
Against this backdrop, high-integrity carbon removals are no longer optional - they are integral to any serious net-zero strategy. Among the available options, biochar carbon removal stands out for its durability, verifiability, scalability, and the co-benefits it delivers for soils, biomass management, and local resilience.
Streamlined, Regional Solutions
As carbon and CO₂e rapidly evolve into globally traded commodities, so market complexity has increased.
There is growing consensus that regionally specific, place-based methodologies can deliver credible, streamlined alternatives that maintain scientific integrity while directly supporting local economies.
Our platform issues Carbon Lock Origin Certificates (CLOCs) - each representing one tonne of CO₂e permanently removed from the atmosphere and stored in biochar.
Setting the standard for high-integrity Biochar Carbon Removal
Locking Atmospheric Carbon...
The CLOC platform aims to deliver 350,000 tonnes of durable CO₂e removals annually by 2032, equivalent to the production of approximately 118,000 tonnes of biochar per year.
Fixed-Carbon Biochar
conversion factor: 1 t biochar ≈ 2.97 tCO₂e, based on 90% fixed-carbon biochar and preliminary LCA assumptions
Unlocking National Capacity...
To achieve this level of production, we’re asking up to 5,000 farmers/landowners to help us establish approximately 25,000–30,000 hectares of well-designed agroforestry systems.
5-hectares per farm, distributed over the average 48-hectare farm-holding in a series of 10-metre wide ‘alleys’ would require less than 15% of the total number of farms in Wales.
Total Farmland Requirement
5-hectares per farm, distributed over the average 48-hectare farm-holding in a series of 10-metre wide ‘alleys’ would require less than 15% of the total number of farms in Wales.
Our Nature-Based framework integrates
three complementary methodologies...
Work With Us...
For Farmers...
Decarbonised Revenue, Generational Stability
By growing the biomass required for conversion to biochar, farmers can begin to generate new income streams that will help build the financial legacy that future generations will require to continue farming in Wales.
Managing existing woodlands, hedgerows and newly established areas of agroforestry over short harvesting cycles enhances biogenic carbon dynamics by increasing the rate of photosynthetic capture and ensuring that a higher proportion of captured carbon is stabilised in durable forms - such as biochar. This adaptive management approach is critical in an era of increasing climatic volatility.
For The Private Sector...
Tracible Investments, Genuine Removals
The CLOC Framework facilitates the creation of a circular economic model, in which financial flows between rural communities and public or private investors are explicitly linked to verifiable carbon-removal outcomes.
These flows are governed by CLOCs transitional reinvestment criteria, targeting hard-to-abate emissions within Scope 3 supply chains, as defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
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Unimpeachable Audits Our immutable registry provides complete transparency, with single-source audit trails from farm production through certificate retirement
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Generational climate solutions Combining permanent biochar storage with measurable biodiversity & soil health improvements
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Bespoke CDR portfolios We can tailor carbon removal strategies to match your operational priorities and timescales
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Value chain decarbonisation Address hard-to-abate Scope 3 emissions through verified agricultural solutions
For The Public Sector...
Circular Economics &
Measurable social impact
Unlike traditional offset markets, the CLOCs system prioritises local reinvestment. Each certificate links directly to on-farm actions, ensuring that capital generated through carbon finance supports biodiversity enhancement, soil health, and community wealth creation.
This design reflects a nation-based carbon circularity, aligning climate action with socio-economic renewal, while advancing the objectives of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 - Establishing a model of climate accountability in which Wales becomes a world-leading demonstrator of place-based decarbonisation
Direct Grassroots ACtion
Local Climate Justice
& Wellbeing Impact
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New Green Employment We're targeting 100+ truly green local jobs created by 2032 - Across biochar production, agroforestry management, mechanical engineering, laboratory services & more
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Takling Food Insecurity Our land-use systems prioritise local food production & distribution, alongside carbon removal
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Community Carbon Value Our non-extractive, community-centric certification criteria & cooperative farm model supports new CIC creation, and ensures carbon value remains as localised as possible.
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Measurable Wellbeing Impacts Long term carbon agreements foster economic stability. While verifiable co-benefits addressing poverty, housing & wellbeing of future generations are written into our standards - Delivering key indicators, measurable against policy.
We're Unifying Cross-Sector Climate Action
Our platform provides the missing climate infrastructure essential for aligning & delivering asymetrical environmental goals
Bridging Agriculture, Industry & Public Sector Needs
Effective CDR deployment requires significant coordination across sectors - Our platform infrastructure brings agricultural producers, industrial emitters, and public institutions together in ways that specifically align collective environmental efforts into one, cohesive, verifiable set of actions and results.
The CLOCs Certification Architecture
Guided by & consistent with a hierarchy of internationally recognised standards and governance frameworks:
Clo Carbon Cymru Testemonials
Stakeholder & Cross-Sector Feedback
The Welsh rural landscape unquestionably faces deep transformation in search of viability, nature restoration and climate responsibility. So far, the responses to this challenge have been piecemeal, small scale, and, to be frank, often lacking in the market credibility needed to achieve scale.
In this context, the launch of the Clo Carbon platform is hugely welcome. It tackles the climate crisis head on with a cool-headed appreciation of the way carbon markets work - and are broken - and with a rooted and credible approach to removing - really removing - carbon from the atmosphere. In addition, the approach is holistic (avoiding a focus on carbon to the exclusion of all else), resource-circular, in alignment with a number of longstanding socio-economic and environmental policies and objectives, and, critically, promises improved local economic outcomes and hence potentially wide acceptance.
The fact that such a scheme has emerged, bottom-up from Wales is the icing on the cake. It is only through the kinds of innovations exemplified by Clo Carbon that we have any hope of building a truly sustainable, climate-friendly and prosperous Wales.
Clo Carbon Cymru stands out for their commitment to developing genuinely novel carbon removal methods. Their integration of biochar stability, engineered delivery systems, and practical farming applications addresses critical gaps in current CDR approaches.
Our collaboration has been mutually beneficial-providing real-world testing opportunities for us, and research support and academic validation for them. Based on early success, we see significant opportunity for further partnership, including joint UKRI bids, Future Leaders Fellowships, and potential Horizon or Programme Grant applications.
There is strong, genuine enthusiasm across the university for Clo Carbon Cymru’s approach, and we are committed to supporting their ongoing development through sustained research collaboration.