Maple Leaf Foods, The North Face Among Latest Companies to Join Effort to Support Farmers Addressing Climate Change with Indigo Carbon

By Indigo Ag

Indigo Agriculture, a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, has announced additional multi-year commitments to purchase verified agricultural carbon credits through Indigo Carbon. Maple Leaf Foods and Epiphany Craft Malt will purchase verified agricultural carbon credits to further their sustainability objectives. Cool Effect will offer Indigo Carbon credits to buyers on their existing platform, allowing both individuals and organizations to fulfill their sustainability goals with high quality offsets. The North Face will provide Indigo-partner farmers with a premium for cotton grown with regenerative practices and is incentivizing new (additional) practice adoption. Through these commitments, the companies join a growing cohort of private industry leaders spurring the global effort to leverage agriculture as a meaningful climate solution.

“Agriculture holds significant promise as a means for addressing climate change and these partners are supporting the change we need to unlock the industry’s potential to benefit people and the planet,” said Ben Allen, Head of Global Market Development at Indigo. “With the purchase of Indigo Carbon credits, companies directly support farmers’ climate smart efforts to make beneficial farming practices the norm, not the exception. I’m incredibly proud to count this new crop of companies among our partners, whose investment and collaboration demonstrate a new era of public-private partnership for good.”

With an inaugural credit purchase price of $20/tonne of carbon dioxide equivalents sequestered and abated, Indigo Carbon allows companies to directly finance growers’ transitions to cultivation practices that improve their soil health, profitability, and the environment at large. Representing a new income stream for farmers, the credits establish an outcomes-based mechanism to accelerate the adoption of agronomic methods proven to reduce on-farm emissions and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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