Turn your climate ambition into impact

Selecting high-quality carbon credits is crucial for ensuring meaningful climate impact. Here are the key steps to get you started:

Verify:
Begin by verifying that the credits are certified by reputable standards registered with International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) such as Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), which guarantee rigorous monitoring and verification processes.

Confirm additionality:
Consider the project's additionality, ensuring that the emissions reductions would not have occurred without the project's implementation.

Measure the benefits:
Look for projects with clear, measurable benefits that align with your sustainability goals, such as emissions reductions, biodiversity protection, or community benefits.

Ensure transparency:
Prioritize credits from projects with a strong track record and transparent reporting.

Qualify the location:
Consider the location of the projects. Do they align with your business activities or resonate with your stakeholders? Think about potential political or organisational risks that might impact project delivery.

Strength in diversification:
Build a diverse portfolio. Diversifying your carbon portfolio can spread risk and enhance overall impact. Combine various project types and locations to create a balanced and robust approach.

Establish your budget:
Prices can vary, so explore the options and consider which best suits your climate goals and budget. Pricing can be influenced by certification standards, location, project type, co-benefits, size, implementation costs, duration, risk management, monitoring, and community engagement. At Climate Impact Partners, as carbon market specialists, we can help you find the right projects tailored to your requirements.

Dot the I's and cross the T's:
Think about who you are buying from.

• - Are they reputable?
• - Are they an ICROA accredited organisation?
• - Will they help you pick quality projects?
• - What support do you need to assess the risks, understand how to communicate the impact and keep up to date with the project over time?

At Climate Impact Partners, we can do all of this for you.

Carbon credits are generated through projects that reduce, avoid, or remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. These projects can take various forms, such as renewable energy installations (e.g., wind or solar farms), reforestation or afforestation initiatives, and methane capture from agricultural operations.

Each project is designed to achieve verifiable emissions reductions, which are measured, reported, and validated by independent third parties according to established standards like the Gold Standard or Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).

Once verified, the achieved reductions are converted into carbon credits, each representing one metric ton of CO₂ equivalent reduced or removed, which can then be purchased by individuals or organizations, who then retire them publicly - so they cannot be used again. Most companies purchase enough credits to compensate for their carbon emissions, as they work to reduce them.

There are different types of carbon projects.

Nature-based solutions projects such as afforestation and reforestation protect and enhance biodiversity to ensure our planet thrives. They can avoid and reduce emissions through nature conservation and remove emissions through nature restoration.

Health and livelihoods projects help households and communities decrease indoor air pollution, provide clean water, and raise household incomes, all while reducing global emissions. They are often located among communities that are most impacted by climate change, yet have the least responsibility for causing it.

Sustainable infrastructure projects accelerate the transition to renewable energy and decrease our dependence on fossil fuels. These large-scale technology solutions focus on the biggest sources of global emissions and reduce the carbon intensity of energy, transportation, and industry.

Each offers unique benefits — our experts can help you choose the right balance of projects that align with your company's sustainability goals, value and operations, whilst also meeting budget, impact, and risk requirements.

A best practice pathway to net zero involves:

• • Reducing emissions in line with science
• • Acting now, by buying high quality carbon credits
• • Planning ahead, to secure your future supply of removal credits
• • Driving innovation, to help the world meet net zero together