When considering purchasing carbon offsets, it is critical that you ensure that the projects have been verified to acceptable third party standards. This way you can be sure that your contribution is genuinely going towards helping mitigate the effects of climate change. At Carbon Friendly we support the following standards, CCBA, VCS and ISO 14064 standards.
The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Project Design Standards (CCB Standards) evaluate land-based carbon mitigation projects in the early stages of development. The CCB Standards foster the integration of best-practice and multiple-benefit approaches into project design and evolution. The Standards:
Focuses on GHG projects or project based activities specifically designed to reduce GHG emissions for increase GHG removals. It includes principles and requirements for determining project baseline scenarios and for monitoring, quantifying and reporting project performance relative to the baseline scenario and provides the basis for GHG projects to be validated and verified.
General Global Warming is expected to lead to an increase in the number of extremely hot days and decrease in the number of extremely cold days.
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