Carbon Offset Projects

By making affordable water filters and improved cookstoves available to households in Guatemala, the project aims to reduce the costs of fuel wood plus the incidences of respiratory and water-borne disease, which are serious problems for the poorer communities in the country.

One of the first carbon projects in Zambia, Katete Improved Cookstoves distributes free, fuel-efficient cookstoves to households in rural and semi- rural areas, enabling emission reductions while also facilitating sustainable development in one of the world's least developed countries.

The Shanxi Cookstove Project is located in Yangquan City in Shanxi Province, China. This project installs one biomass gasifier stove per household, replacing the traditional stove, reducing reliance on coal to prevent carbon emissions and benefit the health of vulnerable communities.

Improved cookstoves utilize simple design enhancements to burn biomass fuel more cleanly and efficiently, therefore reducing greenhouse gas emissions, alleviating pressure on forests and energy resources, reducing harmful smoke and indoor air pollution, and saving families money and time acquiring fuel.

The first Gold Standard project of its kind in the world, this innovative behavior-change program teaches local communities in South Africa to burn coal differently in order to be more fuel efficient, thereby reducing carbon emissions. The echnique, called Basa Magogo, means ‘Light it up! randmother’ In Zulu. In addition to the emission reductions, the Basa Magogo technique also improves visibility and reduces health risks by
producing less smoke.

Located in Central India, this project captures flue gases at a steel plant to produce clean electricity.

Situated at a cement manufacturing plant in China, this project captures waste heat to produce clean electricity which is used as on-site power.

The project aims to reforest one million acres of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. The region is one of the most important ecosystems in North America, but has suffered sustained deforestation. Tree planting will reduce an estimated 200 tonnes CO2e per acre, as well as creating revenue for landowners, jobs in the area, and improving water quality and biodiversity. The project developer received the 2009 Innovation Award from the Southern Growth Policies Board.

The Uganda Community Reforestation Project organizes hundreds of small community-based reforestation activities on lands owned by subsistence farmers, combining sustainable development with carbon sequestration. The project has been validated to the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Climate, Community, and Biodiversity (CCB) Standard.

The project protects 13 discrete parcels of tropical forest scattered across the central section of Cambodia's remote northwest province. By reinforcing community land ownership and protection, and developing sustainable use of forest resources, the pioneering project mobilizes communities to halt rapid deforestation in a region intensely affected by agricultural expansion and forest fires.

The project aims to prevent deforestation in 35,000 hectares of pristine rainforest in Brazil's Acre state, home to the Amazon basin and some of the world's most biodiverse habitats.

The Darkwoods Forest Carbon Project leverages the carbon market to conserve critical ecosystems and carbon sequestration areas at an unprecedented scale. Not only was it the largest single private land conservation purchase in Canada, but the project is also the largest forest carbon project in North America to date, as well as the first and only one validated to the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).

The Sabah Rainforest Rehabilitation Project rehabilitates logged rainforest in the state of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo through Improved Forest Management (IFM) activities as well as avoiding a second round of logging. The project developer has been working on these activities since the early 1990s and so far has restored approximately 12,000 hectares (ha) of rainforest with a goal of rehabilitating a total of 25,000 ha.

Integrating reforestation to sequester carbon with community development activities, the Meru and Nanyuki Community Reforestation Project in Kenya, combines hundreds of individual tree planting activities and enables local communities to improve access to food and create additional sources of income beyond subsistence farming.

This pioneering program in Kenya is the first Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) project to gain Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) validation. The project is located in one of Conservation International’s Global Hotspots – areas holding especially high numbers of endemic species, yet facing extreme and immediate threats.

This project establishes commercial forests at two locations in Tanzania. In July 2009, this became the first ‘Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use’ (AFOLU) project to be validated under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).

The Garcia River Forest project uses conservation-based forest management to absorb and store carbon emissions while restoring wildlife habitat and protecting water quality.

This award-winning project not only captures and destroys methane from landfill gas (LFG) emitted by the 178-acre expansion to the Seneca Meadows landfill site, but has also created almost 420 acres of new wetlands, established an Environmental Education Centre, and generates electricity from the LFG to power 18,000 homes. The project is verified with the American Carbon Registry (ACR) and its awards include the 2012 Gold Excellence Award for Landfill Management by the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and Audubon New York’s Donald G. Colvin Conservation Award. It is based in New York State, USA.

This project, located at Fiscalini Dairy Farms in Modesto, California, is one of very few in the state operating an anaerobic digester system to capture methane gas created from the farm’s cow manure. The project is being verified to a Climate Action Reserve (CAR) protocol.

Taking advantage of agricultural residues from rice husk and wheat, rice, maize and cotton straw to create a source of renewable energy, this Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) project in Eastern China generates electricity from biomass.

This project involves the capture and combustion of landfill gas at a landfill site in Ankara, Turkey, and uses it to supply clean electricity to the local grid.

This project captures coal mine methane (CMM) and uses it as an energy source to supply gas to homes and local industry.

Located at a landfill site in Southern China, this project captures methane at a landfill site and uses it to generate clean electricity.

Located in Chifeng City in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of The People’s Republic of China, the wind power project delivers zero-emissions renewable electricity to China’s Northeast Power Grid. The project is validated and verified to the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and has also registered and issued credits with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Located in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, this 24.75 MW wind power project delivers zero-emissions renewable electricity to the Southern regional grid. The project is validated and verified to the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) (and also registered with the CDM).

The project uses an extensive geothermal reservoir adjacent to the Wayang Windu twin volcano to deliver reliable, clean and renewable electricity to the state electricity grid. It is a pivotal project for Indonesia in taking advantage of its vast geothermal resources and renewable energy potential.

This Gold Standard wind power project, based in the Western Anatolia region of Turkey, consists of 119 turbines supplying zero emissions renewable energy to the national grid.

Making use of residues such as coconut husk, cashew nut shells and cashew debris as well as wood from sustainable forest plantations, this Gold Standard project in north eastern Brazil generates heat from renewable biomass sources.

Located in the state of Karnataka, India, this Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) project generates electricity using wind power. Thirty-eight wind turbines have been constructed, with a total installed capacity of 30.4MW.

This Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Social Carbon project uses sustainable biomass from local industry to provide heat instead of virgin fuel wood.

Located in Hebei Province, China this Gold Standard project consists of 33 x 1.5 MW wind turbines to supply zero-emissions renewable electricity to the North China Power Grid.

This Gold Standard project involves the generation of zero-emissions renewable energy through the installation of wind turbines in Hebei Province, northeast China, which are connected to the local grid.

Located in the western state of Gujarat, India, this Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) project generates electricity using wind power. One hundred wind turbines have been constructed, with a total installed capacity of 150 MW.

Located in the coastal Tekirdag Province, west of Istanbul in the European portion of Turkey, this wind power project consists of 15 turbines with a total capacity of 28.8 MW to supply approximately 95,000 MWh of zero-emissions renewable electricity to the national grid annually. The project is validated and verified to the Gold Standard (GS) and is aiding Turkey in an essential switch to renewable energy to meet a rapidly increasing energy demand.

The project involves the development of 25 x 800kW wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 20 MW located in the village of Panchpatta, in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Located in the town of Bandirma in Balikesir Province,Turkey, this wind power project consists of five turbines with a total capacity of 15 MW to supply approximately 52,000 MWh of zero-emissions renewable electricity to the national grid annually. The project is validated and verified to the Gold Standard (GS) and is aiding Turkey in an essential switch to renewable energy to meet a rapidly increasing energy demand.

Located on the Aegean coast in Izmir Province, Turkey, this Gold Standard project will generate electricity using wind power and feed a total of 30 MW into the public grid.

This project generates renewable energy at a hydro power plant in the Gansu province of The People's Republic of China.

This project, the first wind farm in Nicaragua, generates electricity at a 39.9 MW grid-connected, renewable power plant and increases power supply in a country where there is a severe energy deficit.

This project generates renewable energy from biomass waste at a textile manufacturing plant in Phetchaburi (pronounced pet-boori), Thailand.

This project uses biogas from wastewater to generate heat and power at a tapioca starch drying factory in Cholburi (pronounced chon-boori), Thailand.

This project generates renewable energy at a small-scale hydro power plant in Turkey.

This project replaces heavy oil with renewable biomass to generate energy at three ceramic brick manufacturing facilities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Dhulia project generates renewable energy from the installation of wind turbines at two sites in Northern India.

Based at a manufacturing plant in Maharashtra, this project reduces greenhouse gas emissions by switching from fossil fuel to biomass – a source of renewable energy.