Regenerative agriculture &
Carbon market glossary

At its core, permaculture aims to reduce or replace energy-intensive, environmentally damaging industrial technologies in agriculture. This is achieved by leveraging biological resources and designing systems modelled on natural ecosystems.

Carbon sequestration, also known as carbon capture, is the process of absorbing and storing carbon (CO₂) from the atmosphere.

Organic farming, also known as ecological agriculture, is an agricultural production system based on promoting biodiversity, nutrient cycling, natural pest control, and soil fertility preservation.

Carbon farming is a Regenerative Agriculture approach aimed at increasing the carbon content of agricultural soils to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the 17 sustainability goals of the United Nations aimed at addressing global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation.

CAP stands for Common European Agricultural Policy and has the goals of promoting a crisis-resistant agricultural sector, ensuring the income security of European farmers, supporting environmental and climate protection, and promoting the development of rural areas.

Supply Shed refers to a situation where a company sources goods from a general region or network of suppliers, but cannot trace the goods to a specific supplier. The sourcing occurs from a defined area or group of suppliers, often within a market or geographical region.

Inventory accounting often tracks and reports the GHG emissions from a company’s operations and supply chain.

Intervention accounting, also known as project-based accounting, is a method used to assess the environmental impact of a specific project.

The Voluntary Carbon Market is a market for carbon credits that allows individuals and companies to voluntarily offset their CO₂ emissions.

Carbon offsetting is a mechanism that enables companies and individuals to offset their CO₂ emissions by purchasing carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

Insetting refers to the reduction of emissions within a company's own value chain.

The Compliance Carbon Market (the legal carbon market) is an instrument for achieving climate goals by creating a financial incentive for companies to reduce their emissions.

A carbon credit is a system where one party can compensate another for reducing, avoiding, or removing carbon emissions. Each credit represents one ton of CO₂.

Net-Zero (Netto-Null) zielt darauf ab, ein Gleichgewicht zwischen den menschlich erzeugten Treibhausgasemissionen, die in die Atmosphäre gelangen, und jenen, die daraus entfernt werden, herzustellen. Das Hauptziel ist, dass die insgesamt freigesetzten Emissionen nicht die Menge überschreitet, die aus der Atmosphäre wieder entfernt wird.

Nature Based Solutions (NBS) sind Lösungen, die auf der Nutzung von Ökosystemen und natürlichen Prozessen basieren, um gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen, wie den Klimawandel, den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt und die Verschmutzung von Wasser und Luft zu bewältigen.

ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) ist ein Schlüsselkonzept für nachhaltiges Unternehmertum, das Unternehmen hinsichtlich ökologischer und sozialer Verantwortung, als auch ethischer Unternehmensführung bewertet.