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From risk to rigour: the changing face of rice methane

  • Dr Beth Roberts-Milne
    Carbon Ratings Scientist
  • Dr Missy Motew
    Carbon Ratings Scientist, Soil Carbon and Agriculture Lead
  • Sarah Heard
    Senior Director, Beyond Carbon
  • Ratings

Here are some key takeaways

  • In No pain, no grain (2024), we highlighted the credibility challenges of rice methane projects, including one project rated D on our platform.

  • Our most recent ratings show improvement: CAR1513 (USA) achieved an ‘A’, while The Good Rice Alliance (India) received an ‘A.pre’ ex ante rating.

  • These projects benefit from updated methodologies, improved monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) approaches, and stronger additionality cases.

  • While these ratings suggest that higher-quality rice methane projects are possible, the extent to which this holds more broadly is still to be determined.

Contents

  • From ‘D’ to ‘A’: a shift in rice methane credibility

  • Two new case studies

  • Lessons for the market

  • Conclusion

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