Standards

co2balance’s projects are of the highest standard in the world.  No-one else offers offsets in a range of projects controlled by themselves.  Most act merely as brokers buying in carbon from third party projects and selling it on.  Our standard on additionality far outstrips anything implemented elsewhere.  However, we understand that some clients will want the added confidence of an independent, third party standard.  There are a number of fledgling standards in existence.  However, we have identified significant shortcomings with all of them and do not feel that anything will be added by putting our projects forward for accreditation. We will, however, be submitting all our projects for accreditation under the Voluntary Carbon Standard proposed by the International Emissions Trading Association.  This was launched in 2007. All of our projects meet this standard.

co2balance is a founder member of the CarbonTracker Network. We seek to encourage increased transparency in the voluntary carbon market and enable our users to evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts to reduce or store carbon emissions.

co2balance is a founder member of the Carbon Markets Association.

                        

We use a number of other international standards in our work such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol set up by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and World Resources Institute.  We also use ISO 14064-2:2006: Greenhouse gases which gives specification and guidance at the project level for quantification, monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emission reductions or removal enhancements.