Climate Change Services

There are currently more than 1890 registered CDM projects in 58 countries, and about another 2300 projects in the project validation/registration pipeline. Based on estimates in submitted project design documents, the CDM could generate more than 2.9 billion certified emission reductions by the end of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012, each equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide.

The Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) Standards identify projects that simultaneously address climate change, support local communities and smallholders, and conserve biodiversity. Sustainable development in all parts of the world involves land management. When carefully designed, land management projects can improve livelihoods, create employment, protect traditional cultures and endangered species, help secure tenure to lands and resources, increase the resiliency of ecosystems and help to combat climate change. The CCB Standards can be applied to any land management project, including projects under the VCS Program, to certify such climate, community, and biodiversity benefits.

SOCIALCARBON is a Standard developed by the Ecologica Institute that certifies carbon reduction projects for their contributions to sustainable development. Six aspects of project sustainability are individually measured using the SOCIALCARBON hexagon: carbon and biodiversity as well as social, financial, human and natural components.

The JCM facilitates diffusion of leading low carbon technologies, products, systems, services, and infrastructure as well as implementation of mitigation actions, and contributing to sustainable development of Chile. It appropriately evaluates contributions to GHG emission reductions or removals from Japan in a quantitative manner, by applying measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) methodologies, and uses them to achieve Japan’s emission reduction target.

The AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS v3) is the leading methodology used by sustainability professionals worldwide for sustainability-related assurance engagements, to assess the nature and extent to which an organization adheres to the Accountability Principles.

Gold Standard for the Global Goals is a standard that sets requirements to design projects for maximum positive impact in climate and development -- and to measure and report outcomes in the most credible and efficient way. Gold Standard for the Global Goals customizes safeguards, requirements, and methodologies to measure and verify impact on a wide range of activities -- from climate protection projects seeking to issue carbon credits to corporate supply chain interventions to national or subnational programmed looking for the most credible claims for their impact reporting.

The Global Carbon Council (GCC), an initiative of Gulf Organization for Research and Development (GORD), is a voluntary carbon offsetting program that aims to assist the organizations reduce their carbon footprints, help sectoral economy to diversify by adopting low-carbon pathways and catalyze climate actions on ground. GCC aims to achieve this by:

Cercarbono is a standard with a voluntary carbon certification programme that facilitates and guarantees the registration of Climate Change Mitigation Programmes or Projects (CCMPs), the certification of emissions, and the registration of the carbon credits generated by these initiatives.

The Ghana Carbon Registry (GCR) is a Registry established by the Government of Ghana to serve as a database for collecting and tracking transactions from mitigation activities at sector, city and corporate levels. The Registry has been designed to operationalize Ghana’s Article 6 Framework including other markets and non-markets for global, country, corporate and voluntary obligations. The GCR is managed by a Secretariat under the Article 6 Office run by the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovations through the Environmental Protection Agency.

Plan Vivo is a certification body that certifies projects against the Plan Vivo Standard – a tried and tested framework, developed with over 25 years of experience, for community and smallholder land-use and forestry projects that strive to make a difference. Carbon Check is accredited as a verification body under Plan Vivo for periodic, thorugh & Independent assessments of Project design and implementation against the Plan Vivo Standard

Carbon Check is accredited by NABCB as greenhouse gas validation and verification body for ISO:14064-1: 2018 and ISO 14064-2:2019 for various sectoral scopes