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ClimeCo Featured in Sustainable Brands

ClimeCo Featured in Sustainable Brands

ClimeCo Featured in Sustainable Brands


ClimeCo was recently featured in Sustainable Brands, highlighting our Indonesia reforestation project with YAKOPI and Pur Projet and the need for nature-based projects to drive climate, economic, and ecological impacts. Written by our Sr. Manager of Nature-Based Solutions, David Chen, and Project Manager, Emily Romano, the article also discusses nature-based solutions (NBS) in the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) and future NBS project opportunities for decarbonization.

Read the full article, “High Quality: Nature-Based Solutions in Indonesia: Allying with Communities, Restoring Ecosystems,” by clicking here or the image below.

 

About Sustainable Brands

Sustainable
 Brands is a global community of brand leaders who are tapping environmental and social challenges to drive innovation, business and brand value. Learn more by visiting their website, https://sustainablebrands.com/.

About ClimeCo

ClimeCo is a respected global advisor, transaction facilitator, trader, and developer of environmental commodity market products and related solutions. We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. Complimenting these programs is a team of professionals skilled in providing sustainability program management solutions and developing and financing of GHG abatement and mitigation systems.

For more information or to discuss how ClimeCo can drive value for your organization, contact us at +1 484.415.0501info@climeco.com, or through our website climeco.com. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using our handle, @ClimeCo.

ClimeCo Selected as One of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2023

ClimeCo Selected as One of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2023

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ClimeCo Selected as One of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2023


by: Danielle Pingitore | May 10, 2023

Inc. Best Workplaces 2023


BOYERTOWN, Pennsylvania (May 10, 2023) –
ClimeCo was selected as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2023 — an annual list resulting from a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture.

ClimeCo strives to hire and retain talented, engaged, and curious individuals who are passionate about addressing global environmental challenges. Incorporating our core values into company culture and elevating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) with employees and stakeholders is vital to our success. We uplift a flexible and balanced work environment where employees are encouraged to advance their careers through comprehensive training, career development, and promoting personal and professional growth mentorship. As we continue to grow and expand globally, it is imperative for ClimeCo to remain keenly focused on attracting and retaining exceptional, dedicated employees to ensure we proactively support our clients, partners, and colleagues. We thrive on providing a dynamic, rewarding workplace and making a difference in our communities and the planet.

After collecting data from thousands of submissions, each nominated company participated in an employee survey conducted by Quantum Workplace, which included topics such as management effectiveness, perks, fostering employee growth, and overall company culture. The organization’s benefits were also audited to determine the overall score.

“It is such an honor to have ClimeCo on this list. We are proud that positive employee feedback was an important factor in this process,” says ClimeCo’s HR Director, Michelle McDevitt. “Our workplace is built on inclusion and innovation, and this award establishes ClimeCo’s credibility to prospective employees globally. This accomplishment demonstrates that employee engagement is a key component of our ongoing success and elevates ClimeCo as an employer of choice.”

ClimeCo continues to invest in its employees, upskilling the workforce by offering challenging and unique career opportunities curated to individual goals. Learn more about our core company values and career opportunities by visiting our Careers Page.

 


About ClimeCo

ClimeCo is a global company focused on offering a full range of sustainability advisory with a harmony of industrial and nature-based carbon solutions that meet the diverse needs of clients’ climate programs. We also provide specialized technical solutions for hard-to-decarbonize industries. From developing methodologies to support GHG reduction innovation to advising on solutions for optimal sustainability impact to reach Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals, ClimeCo is the right partner to help address environmental challenges.

About Inc. Media

The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc., offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels, including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent.

For more information, visit www.inc.com.

About Quantum Workplace

Quantum Workplace, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is an HR technology company that serves organizations through employee-engagement surveys, action-planning tools, exit surveys, peer-to-peer recognition, performance evaluations, goal tracking, and leadership assessment.

For more information, visit www.QuantumWorkplace.com.

Offset Pricing Monthly Market Digest – April 2023

Offset Pricing Monthly Market Digest – April 2023

Offset Pricing Monthly Market Digest – April 2023

by Derek Six | May 8, 2023

 

Monthly Market Digest April 2023

Offset Supply Information:

All CCOs issued to date: 245.42 million

CA and General Market Commentary:

  • Issuances of CCOs in April totaled 401,363. The table below continues to track a trend of significantly lower CCO issuances versus prior years: 

ClimeCo's MMD April 2023 Chart

 

ClimeCo is a respected global advisor, transaction facilitator, trader, and developer of environmental commodity market products and related solutions. We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. Complimenting these programs is a team of professionals skilled in providing sustainability program management solutions and developing and financing of GHG abatement and mitigation systems.

For more information or to discuss how ClimeCo can drive value for your organization, contact us at 484.415.0501, info@climeco.com, or through our website climeco.com. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using our handle, @ClimeCo.

What is the role of the IC-VCM?

What is the role of the IC-VCM?

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What is the role of the IC-VCM?


by: Jessica Campbell | April 19, 2023

What is the role of IC-VCM?


Boyertown, Pennsylvania (April 19, 2023) –
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM) emerged last year as one of the recommendations of the task force on scaling the voluntary carbon markets (TSVCM). The TSVCM recognized the power of the VCM and its potential to play a more significant role in the mitigation of climate change but suggested that there needed to be increased standardization across the market to reach its full potential and achieve maximum benefit. The mandate of the IC-VCM is, therefore, to ‘build integrity and scale will follow.’ After holding a public engagement period during the latter half of 2022, the IC-VCM launched its updated Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) in March 2023.

The recent launch is considered ‘Release One’ and includes the finalized list of the 10 CCPs and the Programme-level Assessment Framework. Using the Programme-level Assessment Framework, GHG registries, and programs can now start to prepare their applications to be CCP eligible. The IC-VCM has recognized the overlap between the programme-level assessment and CORSIA’s rigorous assessment process that most programs have already undergone. Therefore, CORSIA-eligible programs will only need to demonstrate compliance with some additional criteria rather than the whole framework.

The remaining part of the Assessment Framework will determine the eligible credit categories and will be released in Q2. At that point, both the eligible programs and credit categories can be assessed. The IC-VCM has indicated that it expects decisions on which credits can be labeled CCP-compliant as early as the end of 2023.

The 10 CCPs have not changed significantly since the draft release but are now grouped into three main categories:

  1. Governance – effective governance at the credit programme-level, tracking of credits through a registry system, transparency, third-party validation, and verification
  2. Emissions Impact – additionality, permanence, robust quantification, and no double counting
  3. Sustainable Development – social and environmental safeguards, and avoid locking in technologies or practices that are incompatible with reaching net zero GHG emissions by mid-century

There will also be three voluntary attributes that a project can apply for:

  1. Host country authorization pursuant to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
  2. Share of Proceeds for Adaptation
  3. Quantified Positive SDG Impacts 

ClimeCo is confident that the projects and registries we work with represent the highest quality in the market and are part of a market ecosystem that strives to make continuous improvements, regardless of the work of the IC-VCM. We are hopeful that the IC-VCM’s assessment will highlight the positive impact those programs and projects are having and the high standards that are already adhered to. 

Although we generally agree with the evaluation criteria for governance and emissions impact, there remains some uncertainty about how the IC-VCM will ultimately evaluate projects under category 3 – Sustainable Development. As the CCP label is a binary decision (pass/fail), we hope there is recognition of the highly variable opportunities and constraints based on a project’s geography and category, as well as the importance of supporting transition technologies today which will lead us down the path of continuous innovation.    

For more information or to discuss how ClimeCo can drive value for your organization, contact us through our website or info@climeco.com.

 


About the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (Integrity Council) is an independent governance body for the voluntary carbon market.

They do this by setting and enforcing definitive global threshold standards, drawing on the best science and expertise available, so high-quality carbon credits channel finance towards genuine and additional greenhouse gas reductions and removals that go above and beyond what can otherwise be achieved, and contribute to climate resilient development.

For more information visit their website

About ClimeCo

ClimeCo is a respected global advisor, transaction facilitator, trader, and developer of environmental commodity market products and related solutions. We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. Complimenting these programs is a team of professionals skilled in providing sustainability program management solutions and developing and financing of GHG abatement and mitigation systems.

Contact us at +1 484.415.0501info@climeco.com, or through our website climeco.com to learn more. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using our handle, @ClimeCo.

ClimeCo Featured in International Cement Review

ClimeCo Featured in International Cement Review

ClimeCo Featured in International Cement Review


ClimeCo
is featured in the International Cement Review April 2023 issue! The article by our Sr. Manager of Industrial Innovations, Kayla Carey, Sr. Manager of Strategic Policy and Markets, Zach Harmer, Sr. Associate, Wilson Fong, and Policy Associate, Braeden Larson, discusses how the cement sector could leverage regulatory and market-based incentives to help finance the rapid deployment of decarbonization technologies. Read our feature in the article “Cement Sector Decarbonisation: the Business Case” by clicking here or the image below.

ClimeCo is featured in the International Cement Review April 2023 issue

 

About International Cement Review

International Cement Review (ICR) delivers unrivaled business insight, market knowledge and technical expertise to the global cement industry. Whether you are involved in the production, trade or distribution of cement, clinker and allied products, ICR provides industry and country reports, technical studies, informed commentary and a wealth of market data. Learn more by visiting their website, https://www.cemnet.com/.

About ClimeCo

ClimeCo is a respected global advisor, transaction facilitator, trader, and developer of environmental commodity market products and related solutions. We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. Complimenting these programs is a team of professionals skilled in providing sustainability program management solutions and developing and financing of GHG abatement and mitigation systems.

For more information or to discuss how ClimeCo can drive value for your organization, contact us at +1 484.415.0501info@climeco.com, or through our website climeco.com. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using our handle, @ClimeCo.

BigCoast Forest Climate Initiative’s Carbon Credits Ready for Immediate Delivery

BigCoast Forest Climate Initiative’s Carbon Credits Ready for Immediate Delivery

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BigCoast Forest Climate Initiative’s Carbon Credits Ready for Immediate Delivery


by: Nancy Marshall | April 11, 2023

ClimeCo Announces Carbon Offset Issuance From The BigCoast Forest Project
Boyertown, Pennsylvania (April 11, 2023) –
ClimeCo is excited to announce that the BigCoast Forest Climate Initiative (BigCoast Forest) carbon offsets, which offer solid additionality in forest protection, have been issued under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard after a comprehensive independent verification and validation process. A limited volume is still available and ready for immediate delivery.

BigCoast Forest is a North American, nature-based forest carbon initiative located on over 100,000 acres of private land in Coastal British Columbia. This high-quality initiative is the largest of its kind in Canada, deferring harvest for 25 years and potentially longer. Its benefits go beyond just carbon credits. The forest contains and protects important ecosystems, drinking watersheds, and lands culturally significant to coastal First Nations. A portion of revenue derived from the initiative will flow to the Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCA) Innovation Program and the Pacific Salmon Foundation, to enable cultural and scientific research on and around the project lands. 

ClimeCo & BigCoast Forest Project
The forest land associated with this initiative is considered an “old-forest” (80%) temperate rainforest, which contributes to a regional ecosystem home to bears, elk, salmon, orca, marbled murrelet, and more. The initiative also contributes to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation, SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 13 – Climate Action, SDG 14 – Life Below Water, and SDG 15 – Life on Land. 

To learn more about this project or purchase offsets, please contact Andy Kruger, Sr. Director of Environmental Markets, at akruger@climeco.com or +1 484.415.7607.

 


About BigCoast 

The BigCoast Forest Climate Initiative is in the business of sustainable forest stewardship, preserving timberland in Coastal British Columbia. BigCoast Forest brings high-quality, large-scale, nature-based carbon credits to a growing international market. The initiative is committed to achieving positive economic, social and sustainability outcomes from the working forest and the communities in which it is a part. For more information, visit BigCoastForest.com

About ClimeCo

ClimeCo is a respected global advisor, transaction facilitator, trader, and developer of environmental commodity market products and related solutions. We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. Complimenting these programs is a team of professionals skilled in providing sustainability program management solutions and developing and financing of GHG abatement and mitigation systems.

For more information or to discuss how ClimeCo can drive value for your organization, contact us at +1 484.415.0501, info@climeco.com, or through our website climeco.com. Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using our handle, @ClimeCo.