Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation - Carbon Credits
For enterprises, organisations and individuals the reduction of their Carbon Footprint is an important step to more sustainability and on the way to climate neutrality. But in most cases, CO2 emissions cannot be entirely avoided.
By investing in carbon credits you help to fight climate change and to improve the living conditions of people in the project areas for example by increasing living standards, allowing access to education, creating jobs, improving health conditions or infrastructure and further more.
Climate protection is a global issue. For the climate, it is not relevant in which parts of the world climate-relevant emissions are released.
The implementation of emission-reducing measures as part of international climate projects is an essential and absolutely necessary contribution to achieving climate protection targets.
We only recommend projects that are certified according to internationally recognized standards, such as the GOLD STANDARD created by the WWF or the VCS (Verified Carbon Standard).
To ensure the necessary quality and transparency, these projects are registered in publicly accessible registers. The project is continuously monitored over the entire duration of the project and the carbon credits generated each year are certified.
Each carbon credit - equivalent to the saving of one ton of CO2 - is assigned a unique identification number in the register. When credits are purchased, they are retired in the register. This prevents multiple use.
We recommend - as required by PAS 2060 - that contribution shoult be made to projects that meet the following criteria:
- • Additionaliy
- • Permanence
- • No double counting
- • Verification by an independent third party verifier
- • Issuance of Carbon Credits only after implementation of the project
- • Documentation of the project and issunace of Carbon Credits in publicly available registries
- • Retirement remark in these publicly available registries
More information on our projects you find on Climate Projects.
We will be happy to assists you in reducing your carbon footprint and in choosing projects eligible to your business.
Contact: claudia.rosmanith@eecaustria.at
