Reduce carbon
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How we offset carbon emissionsCarbon Credits: Karnataka Renewable Energy Project Project Summary: The project generates renewable energy from the collection and clean burning of waste agricultural products, such as rice husks, purchased from local farmers. The farmers are paid for their waste, providing a new source of income for the local community. The Karnataka Project avoids the emission of greenhouse gases via two important processes. Firstly, the collectino of waste ensures that the residual crops do not rot and decay in the fields, causing methane. Secondly, the Project feeds electricity into the grid and displaces electricity generation from fossil fuels. In total, the Project reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30,000 tonnes of CO2e per year. The offsets generated by the Project have been third-party audited by DNV and are accredited to the Voluntary Carbon Standard. the Project has been registered under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism since 2007. To read our assessment of these credits download our Carbon Offset Profile here. Project Summary: The HELP project was implemented by Energy Mad Limited. Energy Mad is a New Zealand based company with a mandate to reduce enough electricity to power Europe. In rolling out the project, Energy Mad partnered with electricity network utilities and retailer outlets throughout New Zealand to offer consumers five Ecobulbs for $10.00, using a voucher redemption process. The installation of these Ecobulbs in the place of incandescent lamps leads to a direct reduction in fossil fuel electricity generation. Energy Mad engaged United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change appointed Designated Operational Entity, Det Norske Veritas Certification, to carry out the independent validation of the HELP design. The New Zealand HELP achieved independent validation on 16 January 2008 to Voluntary Carbon Standard 2007. Validation against this standard ensures that the project meets all of CRI’s carbon credit standards; including financial additionality, environmental additionality, permanence and assessment of leakage. This gives a promise to our clients that the greenhouse savings from these credits have occurred. To read our assessment of these credits against our criterias of financial additionality, environmental additionality, permanence, leakage and other benefits download our document CRI Assessment of HELP VERs.  You can also contact us to find out more about our carbon credits.
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Carbon offsets & credits
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