Climate Agriculture Alliance

What Climate Agriculture Alliance does

Climate Agriculture Alliance is a French non-profit association (Association de loi 1901) headquartered in Chaponnay, France, founded in 2022. It operates as a membership-based federation whose mission is to strengthen the credibility and infrastructure of European agricultural carbon finance by addressing double counting, market trust, transition hurdles, and fair farmer value distribution within carbon farming markets. Its core customers are agriculture entrepreneurs and solution providers developing carbon credit programs for farmers across Europe.

The organization's primary product is the Carbon Farming Identification Platform — a software system that enables the unique registration of carbon farming projects. The platform operates by letting program operators check and register farms into a centralized, encrypted database using farm VAT numbers as identifiers; the system verifies whether a farm is already enrolled in a compatible carbon program, prevents double registration, and notifies other compatible programs when a farm is registered into one of them. The value proposition is anchored in preventing double counting of carbon credits across the European patchwork of carbon farming schemes (Soil Capital, Carbone Farmes, MyEasyFarm, Gaiago, Klim, Cooperative Carbone, UPL, and others that sit as alliance members), and in extending interoperability across them.

Climate Agriculture Alliance operates on a subscription-recurring, membership-fee revenue model — a typical association financing structure rather than a venture-backed commercial model. Its go-to-market is community-led: it federates industry players, runs events and explanatory content to build awareness, and drives membership via a website application form. With 1–10 employees, no disclosed funding events, and 15+ named member organizations, the entity is best understood as an early-stage industry consortium building shared infrastructure for the European voluntary carbon market's agricultural segment.

Name

Climate Agriculture Alliance

Legal name

Association de loi 1901 Climate Agriculture Alliance

Website

https://climate-ag.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Climate Agriculture Alliance is a French non-profit association, founded in 2022, that operates a centralized software platform for unique registration of European farm carbon credit projects to prevent double counting across carbon farming programs, serving agriculture entrepreneurs and carbon finance solution providers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carbon Credit Registry Software

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (1153)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Carbon Registries & Issuance Platforms (Project/credit lifecycle, serials, issuance, retirement) (EUABAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Credit Issuance, Serialisation & Retirement Assurance (Registry Integrity Checks) (EUABACAM), Carbon Accounting, Verification & Registry Services (MRV, Audits, Certification) (IMAMAJAE)

Keywords

• Carbon farming registry
• Carbon credit verification
• Agricultural carbon finance
• Farm identification platform
• Climate agriculture alliance

Headquarters

HQ city

Chaponnay

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: Climate Agriculture Alliance operates as an association de loi 1901 (French law) and appears to generate value through membership contributions from agriculture entrepreneurs developing carbon finance solutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Climate Agriculture Alliance operates a Carbon Farming Identification Platform that assigns each carbon farming project a unique identifier based on the farm's VAT number and stores registrations in an encrypted database. The platform runs algorithmic checks against compatible carbon finance programs to detect and prevent double counting of carbon credits. It is offered to agriculture entrepreneurs and carbon finance program operators as an open and secure registration infrastructure for the European voluntary carbon market.

Product overview

Climate Agriculture Alliance offers a single unified software platform — the Carbon Farming Identification Platform — designed as the unique identification system for agricultural carbon farming projects. The platform enables users to check and register farms into a centralized and encrypted database, verify farm VAT numbers, check compatibility with existing carbon programmes, and register unencumbered farms into their own programmes while notifying compatible programmes. The platform addresses key challenges in European carbon farming including double counting, market trust, and farmer value distribution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Carbon Farming Identification Platform A software platform that assigns each carbon farming project a unique identifier tied to the farm's VAT number, registers it in an encrypted database, and runs algorithmic checks against all compatible carbon finance programs to detect and prevent double counting of carbon credits; intended for European agriculture entrepreneurs and carbon finance program operators.

Quantifiable outcome

• Unique farm identification prevents double counting of carbon credits

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Carbone FarmescoreOthersMember of Climate Agriculture Alliance, contributing to the European alliance for carbon farming.
• Soil CapitalcoreOthersMember organization focused on rewarding farmers who fix the planet; strengthening credibility and value of impact through CAA.
• AGOTERRAcoreOthersAlliance member providing expertise in carbon farming; CEO Mathieu Toulemonde serves as Director of Publication for CAA.
• MyEasyFarmcoreOthersMember organization contributing to European carbon farming market development and farmer transition.
• RizecoreOthersAlliance member in the Climate Agriculture Alliance ecosystem.
• GaiagocoreOthersAlliance member contributing to agricultural carbon finance solutions.
• GenesiscoreOthersAlliance member in the Climate Agriculture Alliance.
• AgDataHubcoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partner providing data infrastructure for agricultural carbon projects.
• Cooperative CarbonecoreOthersAlliance member focused on carbon cooperation in agriculture.
• KlimcoreOthersAlliance member in the Climate Agriculture Alliance ecosystem.
• RegenerationcoreOthersAlliance member focused on regenerative agriculture carbon solutions.
• SysfarmcoreOthersAlliance member contributing to agricultural carbon finance.
• UPLcoreOthersAlliance member in the Climate Agriculture Alliance.
• ReSoilcoreOthersAlliance member focused on soil carbon regeneration.
• CarbonegcoreOthersAlliance member in the carbon farming ecosystem.
• GreenflexminorOthersPartner organization displayed in the partners section of the website.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Nori: Blockchain-based carbon removal marketplace and registry. Comparable to CAA in building registry/marketplace infrastructure for carbon credits, though Nori focuses on removal suppliers more broadly rather than European agricultural carbon farming specifically.
• Pachama: Carbon credit verification and marketplace platform using satellite and MRV technology. Comparable to CAA on the carbon credit verification/registration side, though focused on nature-based forestry credits globally rather than European farm-level identification.
• Agrology: Agriculture-focused carbon MRV and predictive analytics platform. Comparable to CAA as a European-relevant ag-carbon data/registry player, though it focuses on grower-level measurement rather than cross-programme interoperability.

Broad incumbents

• Verra: Operator of the world's leading voluntary carbon registry (Verra Registry). Directly comparable on the registry/serialisation function, and increasingly active in agricultural land-sector methodologies that compete with CAA's European carbon-farming scope.
• Indigo Ag: Large US-headquartered ag-carbon programme (Indigo Carbon) with significant capital backing and registry-style credit issuance for farmers. Comparable to CAA on farmer-level carbon credit registration, but operates proprietary infrastructure rather than a neutral interoperability model.
• Gold Standard: One of the largest global carbon credit standard-setters and registries (GS Registry). Comparable to CAA because it operates the registry infrastructure layer that issues, serialises, and retires credits — the same interoperability function CAA is building for European agricultural carbon.

Direct peers

• Agreena: European carbon farming platform that issues and verifies soil-carbon credits for farmers. Closely comparable to CAA as a Europe-based ag-carbon programme with farmer registration, MRV, and credit issuance — but Agreena is vertically integrated whereas CAA positions itself as the neutral cross-programme rail.
• Soil Capital: European carbon farming programme that certifies and pays farmers for regenerative practices. Direct functional peer to CAA's mission (European ag-carbon) and a current CAA member; included here because it represents the type of vertically-integrated programme CAA's registry would interoperate with — and could one day compete with.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/climate-agriculture-alliance

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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