Climate infrastructure · East Africa

Digital MRV infrastructure for durable carbon removal

StratumClimate builds the measurement, verification and governance systems behind engineered biochar, ARR and avoided emissions programmes, so that climate value can be trusted, not just claimed.

Isometric-aligned
Biochar · ARR · Avoided emissions
Reactor-agnostic

How StratumClimate works →Our principles

PROJECT BOUNDARY

01FieldGeotagged at source

02VerifyBlind count locked

03AccountIsometric methodology

04GovernSeparate hands release

Illustrative map

Key to the map

Four layers between the land and a credit you can trust.

Each layer is independent of the one before it. That separation is the point: nothing is counted until someone other than its producer has checked it.

Field data capture

Feedstock intake, production batches, lab samples, planting and survival records. Timestamped, geotagged and attributed at the point of work.

Captured where the work happens

Independent verification

Checked by a party independent of the team that produced it, who records what they find before they see what was claimed.

Blind, then compared

Carbon accounting

Verified data runs through a calculation engine built to Isometric's published methodologies, with uncertainty disclosed, not smoothed away.

Net figures, conservative by default

Governance

Approval and execution sit with different parties. No single role can both authorise and release a payment or a credit.

Audit trail kept for the life of the project

How the platform works →

What we build

Three carbon pathways. One verification layer.

StratumClimate is not a marketplace, registry or after-the-fact reporting tool. It is the infrastructure beneath verified carbon programmes, built to Isometric’s engineering-science principles from the first data point.

Engineered biochar

Pyrolysis of eligible biomass into permanent carbon, with cradle-to-grave lifecycle accounting and chain of custody from source to storage.

Afforestation, reforestation & revegetation

GPS-tagged tree portfolios from establishment to canopy: species selection, growth monitoring and survival verification through the same layer.

Avoided emissions

Biomass energy and industrial displacement measured against a documented fossil baseline. Every avoided tonne is a measured reduction.

Every output is another programme’s input.

01Feedstock sourcingInvasive species, agricultural residues or managed forestry waste, screened for eligibility first.
02ProcessingReactor-agnostic conversion, with outputs allocated across biochar, energy and co-products.
03ProductsSoil amendments, biocoal and process energy, each with a verified offtake and its own methodology.
04VerificationEvery data point, from feedstock origin to application record, flows into the dMRV layer.

The record

Every entry kept. Nothing claimed early.

A programme’s history reads like a logbook: newest first, appended to, never rewritten. Here is what a few entries look like.

Sample entries, for illustration
When	Layer	Entry	Status
14 Oct 10:05	04 Govern	Payment for Cohort B released by fund management, after verification passed	Released
14 Oct 09:40	02 Verify	Reported count opened and compared with the auditor's locked count	Verified
14 Oct 09:12	02 Verify	Auditor's blind survival count for Cohort B locked	Locked
02 Sep 16:31	03 Account	Cohort C held out of account until its survival is verified	Held
02 Sep 16:30	01 Field	Cohort C planted inside the mapped boundary, geotagged	Held

Rule 1

No single hand on both scale and switch

Whoever measures an outcome never verifies it, and whoever verifies it never releases payment for it.

Rule 2

Carbon is claimed after it exists

A seedling or a tonne of char stays out of account until an independent check, on terms fixed in advance, confirms it.

Rule 3

The record cannot be quietly rewritten

Corrections are added as new entries, so history is as auditable in year five as on day one.

Delivery projects

Infrastructure proves itself in delivery.

Every layer is built against a real programme, with real land, real producers and a real verifier.

Project 01 · Restoration · Kenya

IMARA

A national programme restoring Kenya’s landscapes with government, private-sector sponsors, landowners and communities. CharFixx curates and operates it on the ground; StratumClimate provides the infrastructure underneath.

Type: ARR: afforestation, reforestation & revegetation
Operator: CharFixx Solutions
Areas: Baringo · Tana River · Kilifi · Kajiado proposed

About the programme on CharFixx →

Layer	In IMARA
01Field	Nursery batches, planting and survival records captured on site, geotagged.
02Verify	Independent auditors count survival blind; results must clear a threshold set in advance.
03Account	Only survival-verified trees count toward ARR carbon.
04Govern	Steward payments follow the record and are released by a separate party.

Category contrast

Infrastructure changes the logic.

Marketplaces optimise exchange. StratumClimate is built for the systems that must exist before an African carbon programme can carry lasting, tradeable value.

Marketplaces

Transaction-led
Short time horizons
Project-by-project logic
Credits as products

StratumClimate

System-led
Multi-decade design
Portfolio and landscape logic
Credits as verified outcomes

Infrastructure is what remains when transactions fade.

Principles

The doctrine behind the infrastructure.

A small set of operating commitments keeps the platform grounded.

Permanence over speed

Durable outcomes matter more than rapid claims.

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Systems over projects

Landscape logic is stronger than isolated activity.

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Participation over extraction

Producers must share in the value they help create.

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Integrity over volume

Measurement and governance define the value of scale.

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Who we build with

Serious climate infrastructure is collective.

StratumClimate is a StratumEarth Solutions platform, working inside a group where each company owns one part of the system, so none of them marks its own work.

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