Carbon certificate projects tracked on Data Hub

Agriculture

Projects around farming practices or livestock management. Gross split is between arable farming related activities aimed at soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration and livestock methane management. The first ones include reductions in tillage and fertilizer application among other potential activities.

Chemical Processes/Industrial Manufacturing

Projects that deal with the management of high GWP and highly polluting gasses and materials form the heavy-industry

Energy Efficiency/Fuel Switching

Energy efficiency projects aim to reduce energy consumption by implementing measures such as upgrading buildings, appliances, and industrial processes. By reducing energy demand, these projects indirectly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Forestry and Land Use

These projects involve planting new forests, conserving or restoring existing forests or other land based ecosystems. Trees and vegetation absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, making these projects effective in removing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Household Devices

These projects provide cleaner and more efficient household devices such as cookstoves to households in developing countries. Traditional cookstoves often burn biomass fuels inefficiently, leading to high emissions. By improving cookstoves you not only reduce emissions but also improve indoor air quality.

Renewable Energy

These projects involve generating electricity or heat from renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydro, or biomass. By supporting these projects, carbon emissions associated with fossil fuel-based energy generation can be avoided.

Transportation

Credits for switching to fuels with a lower GWP potential across wheel transport or shipping

Waste Disposal

These projects focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste, including landfill gas capture, composting, and waste-to-energy initiatives. By properly managing waste, these projects prevent the release of methane and other greenhouse gasses

AcoGS

Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands

ALM

Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation

Biogas

Get credits for using biogas instead of a polluting fuel - the corresponding sector then depends on how the biogas is generated or used (e.g. if comes from cow dung its agriculture, if it comes from other types of organic waste, if it’s waste disposal, if its used for cooking its household devices, if it’s used to power transport its transportation...)

Borehole

Rehabilitation of wells provides communities with clean drinking water, eliminating the need to burn wood to boil and purify the water

Cookstove

Get credits for using biogas instead of a polluting fuel - the corresponding sector then depends on how the Get credits for the distribution of clean cookstoves or cookstoves that are more efficient

Foam

Sourcing and destruction of High-GWP foam blowing agents that are extracted from insulation foam; and Insulation foam that contains blowing agent(s) with high GWP.

Hydro

Displacement of electricity provided to the grid by more- GHG-intensive means by installation of a new renewable power plant or the retrofit, replacement or capacity addition of an existing renewable power plant.

IFM

Improved Forest Management

Mangroves

Conservation and / or restoration of mangrove ecosystems. Generation of "blue carbon"

Methane

Methane is produced and emitted by landfills, during wastewater treatment, in natural gas and petroleum systems, from agricultural activities (livestock and rice cultivation), and during coal mining. Classification to sector depends on how the methane is used and where it comes from.

REDD

Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation

Soil Carbon

Land management practices greatly influence the amount of carbon sequestered in soil. Practices that increase the amount of soil carbon stored include reduced or no tillage, prevention of overgrazing, reduction or increased precision of fertilizer application, and the maintenance of ground cover through cover cropping.

Solar

Displacement of electricity provided to the grid by more- GHG-intensive means by installation of a new renewable power plant or the retrofit, replacement or capacity addition of an existing renewable power plant.

Water purification

Chemical treatment of water to replace the need to boil water

Wind

Displacement of electricity provided to the grid by more- GHG-intensive means by installation of a new renewable power plant or the retrofit, replacement or capacity addition of an existing renewable power plant.

WRC

Wetlands Restoration and Conservation