There are several types of carbon offsetting projects, each with unique approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some common types:
Nature Based Solutions
- Forestry Projects: These include forest conservation, improved forest management, and afforestation/reforestation. They help capture and store carbon dioxide through tree planting and forest protection.
- Agricultural Projects: Practices like regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and methane reduction from livestock and fertilizers.
- Wetland Projects: These involve restoring and protecting wetlands, mangroves, and peatlands, which are significant carbon sinks.
Non-Nature Based Solutions
- Renewable Energy: These projects involve generating energy from renewable sources like wind, solar, and hydroelectric power, displacing fossil-fuel emissions.
- Energy Efficiency Projects: Initiatives that improve energy efficiency in buildings, industries, and transportation to reduce energy consumption and emissions.
- Methane Capture: Projects that capture and destroy methane emissions from landfills, coal mines, and oil and gas operations.
- Clean Cookstoves: Providing efficient cookstoves to communities in developing countries to reduce emissions from traditional cooking methods.
Additional Benefits
Many carbon offset projects also provide co-benefits such as improved air and water quality, biodiversity conservation, and enhanced community health and education services.
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What are carbon registries?
There are several types of carbon offsetting projects, each with unique approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some common types:
- Tracking and Verification: Carbon registries issue carbon credits based on defined certification protocols and keep track of available offsets in the marketplace. They ensure that each credit represents a verified reduction or removal of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Transparency: Registries provide a transparent system for tracking the ownership of carbon credits. Each credit is assigned a unique serial number, and the registry records the transfer of ownership when credits are bought or sold.
- Preventing Double Counting: By retiring credits from the market once they are used, registries ensure that the same credit cannot be claimed by multiple entities.
- Types of Registries: There are several carbon registries, including the American Carbon Registry (ACR), Gold Standard Registry, Climate Action Reserve (CAR), and Carbon Standard (VCS) Registry.
ZeroGHG sources its project carbon credits through direct investments or through the purchase of pooled carbon commodities. Pooled carbon commodities result from the combination of carbon reductions from a variety of sources into an emission trading program and are typically traded in carbon exchanges or commodity markets.
ZeroGHG offsets retirements can be registered in the name of the beneficiary company for offest quantities greater than 500MT. Offset quantities for individual or less than 500MT are retired thru ZeroGHG pooled accounts. electronically.