Competitive agribusiness: carbon credits, EUDR, and traceability. With CarbonOS.

Carbonova connects purchases of grain, cattle and inputs, suppliers’ field-plot data, plant energy and fuel use, and satellite imagery to CarbonOS, a platform of AI agents. CarbonOS calculates the Scope 1 to 3 inventory per plant and per product, monitors sourcing areas by satellite with anomaly detection and compares efficiency and input measures by their effect on cost and CO₂, with evidence ready for the EUDR and for buyers.

They come from cattle (enteric fermentation and manure), nitrogen fertilisers, diesel for machinery and dryers, energy in processing plants and, above all, land-use change. Agriculture, forestry and other land use produced 22% of global net greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, and about half of that was CO₂ from land use, mainly deforestation (IPCC, 2022). For a processor, the emissions of supplying farms sit in Scope 3.

The EU Deforestation Regulation applies from 30 December 2026 to large and medium operators and from 30 June 2027 to micro and small ones: cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy and wood, and products made from them, must be deforestation-free since 31 December 2020, legally produced and covered by a due diligence statement. Under the CSRD as amended by Omnibus I, companies with more than 1,000 employees and more than €450 million turnover report from financial year 2027.

Since 1 January 2026, EU importers of fertilisers must surrender CBAM certificates on embedded emissions, priced at €82.32 per tonne in the third quarter of 2026 (European Commission, 2026); without verified supplier data, default values apply with a 1% mark-up for fertilisers. Food and feed plants large enough to be in the EU ETS also pay the carbon price on their combustion emissions. Carbonova tracks fertiliser purchases and plant energy and ranks measures by cost per tonne avoided.

The supply chain agent links every purchased lot to its suppliers and plots of origin, Sentinel AI checks those plots against satellite imagery for signs of deforestation after 31 December 2020, the EUDR cut-off date, and the Compliance Hub flags lots with open issues. The result is a per-lot file with an audit trail that suppliers hand to the EU operator, who is responsible for the due diligence statement.

CarbonOS reads purchase and invoice data for grain, cattle and inputs, ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, plant meters and IoT data, field-plot data and satellite imagery, then normalises and versions everything. Each value keeps its lineage back to the invoice, plot or meter, a versioned emission factor and a change history, in line with the ISO 14064-3 verification standard, which serves EUDR files, buyers’ Scope 3 and certification bodies.