Frequently Asked Questions

Are Carbon8 donations tax deductible in Australia?

Donations

What is the process to select farmers for Carbon8?

Donations

How do you monitor that a Carbon8 farmer correctly applies regenerative agricultural principals and builds carbon in the soil?

Impact Partners

What are the steps every farmer goes through with Carbon8?

Farmers

Does Carbon8 support farmers Internationally or just in Australia?

Impact Partners

How are you using the money raised from donations?

Donations

What are your recommendations to farmers? 

Farmers

What are your validation protocols for soil carbon accumulation?

Farmers

How often are you testing?

General

Do the measurements of carbon savings take into account the methane emissions from the grazing animals?

General

Is it necessary to have animals raised for food in order to sequester the carbon in the soil? Would native animals have the same effect? Can plant based regenerative agriculture achieve the same thing?

General

How can $8 a month sequester over 1,000 tonnes of C02 a year?

General

Which soil carbon measurement techniques are you using to perform baseline and ongoing soil carbon measurements?

Farmers

The modelling method hasn’t had much (if at all) uptake, likely due to the minute increases modelled over time, making it not worthwhile - how are you doing things differently?

Farmers

I was wondering about your validation protocols for soil carbon accumulation, if you are saying that the soil carbon percentage is increasing how often are you testing that? Is it at the same time each year and how do you account for changes such as differing precipitation year to year which may have a large effect on this.

Farmers

Why don't farmers pay to increase their carbon levels and factor it into the sell price of their produce? That way, we pay for the real cost of production.

General

Can you draw down carbon when you are in drought?

General

What accountability and transparency is offered to donors?

General

Can we off-set our carbon footprint with Carbon8?

General

Do you have a blog?

General

Do you have a twitter account?

General

Do all farmers who register get accepted into the program?

Farmers

I need to change my credit card, what do I do?

Donations

Can I donate using PayPal?

Donations

How can I cancel my donation?

Donations

I want to sign up a friend what do I do?

Donations

What does it mean by 'offset 80 people'?

General

I keep hearing that cattle are really important to support regenerative agriculture. This is confusing when vested interests are promoting the cattle industry, especially when you consider the negative evidence about cattle and climate warming e.g. the devastating consequences of methane gas produced by cattle and the large amounts of water needed to produce protein by growing cattle.

General