Some carbon credits are not certified by third party auditors or carbon offset schemes, however they are also legit and verified. Some prefer to go with uncertified credits to allocate the most of the credit cost to the offset program, as third party certification of carbon credits can be expensive. This high certification / middlemen price has 2 consequences:
To be considered high quality, any carbon offsetting project need to meet a number of quality criteria. You should plan to carry out independent due diligence on the quality of individual credits purchased throughout your procurement process.
74%
of carbon credit issued in 2021 come from independent standards, totalling 352 million credits
(Open Knowledge)
EcoMatcher plants trees and complete forests with vetted foundations from around the world specialized in tree planting.
Through technology, EcoMatcher knows everything of every tree planted. You can virtually travel to every tree and learn more.
Companies use EcoMatcher’s digital platform and the trees for meaningful corporate gifting -, rewards -, loyalty -, employee engagement-, and transparent carbon offset - programs.
EcoMatcher is a certified B Corporation.
Nika.eco helps companies who are offsetting emissions through carbon credits to understand the quality of such credits and where to get the best-quality carbon credits with Nika.eco's proprietary remote sensing technology. Nika.eco also has its own portfolio of nature-based carbon projects of high quality.
South Pole has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006, developing and implementing comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for Fortune 500 companies, governments and organizations around the world.
South Pole is more than a consultancy, its team of 1,200+ experts have developed projects, as well as designed innovative tools across finance, climate neutral APIs, and carbon offset solutions to help clients reach their carbon mitigation and Net Zero goals.
To date South Pole has worked with over 1,000 clients, and will soon have developed 800 offset projects across 30 offices globally.
Our solutions have created tens of thousands of jobs in developing countries, hundreds of millions of dollars for business, improved brand value and better living and working conditions for countless people in vulnerable communities around the world.
Zuno is a pioneer in decarbonisation, carbon & ESG management. Our tech platform helps leading organizations measure, reduce and report their carbon emissions and ESG performance. Powering you towards your sustainability goals, one step at a time.
Aeterni is a sustainability and impact advisory company, providing strategic guidance to organizations aiming to integrate sustainability into their core business practices.
Our services cover corporate sustainability, where we deliver comprehensive assessments, roadmaps, and value chain management strategies, ensuring businesses meet their sustainability objectives while enhancing governance. We also offer carbon services, including life cycle assessments, corporate carbon footprint analysis, and carbon credit advisory, empowering companies to reduce emissions and comply with regulatory requirements. Additionally, our expertise in sustainable finance helps businesses quantify sustainability impacts, develop financing frameworks, and assess climate risks, fostering resilience and long-term value creation.
RESET Carbon is an innovative team of engineers and consultants committed to helping companies achieve substantial emissions reductions.
Leveraging our deep understanding of regional industries and cutting-edge decarbonisation strategies and solutions, our relationship-focused, holistic approach delivers meaningful, measurable results which accelerate our clients' response to the climate crisis.
RESET Carbon works across a variety of sectors including apparel, real estate, electronics, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and food and beverage.
We are a registered non-profit organization focusing on prevention, collection, recycling and education to prevent ocean waste/plastics. We offer a variety of Ocean Cleanup CSR activities, school and community waste bank programs, as well as set up and manage ocean plastic solutions for our own non-profit, but also as an outsource contractor for other organizations.
Livelihoods Venture is a social business that originates, designs and monitors large scale projects of natural ecosystem restoration, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and rural energy, aiming to create sustainable ecological and social value. It operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe with a team of 50 agronomists, foresters, rural development practitioners, carbon, M&E and finance experts from 12 nationalities, who manage the livelihoods portfolio of projects through a large network of NGOs, suppliers, and public agencies.
A specifity of Livelihoods is its cooperative model: investors in the Livelihoods funds are fully associated with the investment decision and fund governance. Livelihoods' strategic pillars are twofold:
Within the value chain, Livelihoods partners with large corporations that source raw material from agriculture or forestry, to help them transform their supply chain and meet their social and ecological commitments. Livelihoods has also developed a range of large scale projects with smallholder farmers in cocoa, coconut, vanilla, shea, coffee, dairy, palm, etc., to address both poverty and sustainability issues. In mature economies, Livelihoods mobilizes coalitions of actors along the value chain from farmers to cooperatives, processors and brands to foster regenerative agriculture practices that restore soils and biodiversity while storing carbon.
Beyond the value chain, Livelihoods Carbon Funds (LCF) work with companies committed to becoming net zero. In addition to their efforts to curb carbon emissions in their operations, product design, etc., these companies invest in Livelihoods projects which provide them with high quality carbon credits.
With nine global offices and 16 years of expertise, ACT has empowered thousands of companies to decarbonize with their comprehensive sustainability solutions, tailored to their clients’ unique needs. ACT has more than 200 products and cutting-edge digital solutions that focus on enabling organisations to meet complex environmental regulations and achieve their climate goals, no matter how ambitious.
Circonomy is a Climate tech startup based in Singapore specialized in Carbon Removal from the atmosphere through biochar projects. We work with Farmer Producer Organizations, Biomass Aggregators & small holder farmers in India to help them turn their organic waste into biochar. Carbon projects are currently based in India.
We provide training, digital solution, equipment and financing solution as well as additional revenues from the Carbon Removal credits.
We focus maximising co-benefits, trust and traceability to provide high-quality removal credits.