How support helps!

Rob de Rooij — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:46:45 +0000

It’s encouraging to see that even in these strange and sometimes heartbreaking times, people are still taking climate action. Thanks for this continued support and for positively impacting the planet and its people!

So far in 2020, our growing climate community has offset 107,000 tonnes of CO2 through our website – equivalent to providing more than 18,000 American homes with electricity for one year. This support translates to nearly $16 million US dollars in shared value for local communities, from financial savings to job opportunities to better health.

To learn more about the impact Gold Standard certified projects deliver, you can visit our website.

How your support helps to maintain
and expand projects

Betulia Hydroelectric Project in Honduras

This small run-of-river hydroelectric power plant provides clean and affordable energy to the national grid, displacing the need for traditional fossil fueled power plants.

At a time when many countries are suffering from climate change – Honduras is currently recording temperatures above 50°C – money generated from the sale of carbon credits enables the introduction of zero emission energy systems, providing:

Up to 23,000 MWh of clean and affordable energy to the local electricity grid each year
12 jobs of which 8 employees are hired locally

This project says it’s also used the proceeds from carbon credit sales to provide $40,000 in financial aid and contributions to local infrastructure and schools, and has worked with the community to plant 6,000 mahogany trees to help protect the local forests.

Qori Q’oncha – Improved Cookstoves diffusion
programme in Peru

As the first Programme ever to be certified to Gold Standard, Qori Q’oncha is a pioneer initiative that was developed based on a socio-anthropological study in the Andes. This study highlighted the importance of improved cookstoves for rural families, leading to strong and diverse positive impacts, such as better health and education, gender equality, access to clean water, and food security, as well as the necessity to ensure the sustainability of the project through carbon revenues.

Twelve years after the installation of its first cookstove, Qori Q’oncha keeps on supporting vulnerable communities’ thanks to your support.

Benefitted over 400,000 people to date
Nearly 2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions have been avoided
100% of the beneficiaries confirm that respiratory diseases, burns, backaches and coughing occur less often or not at all
Each improved cookstove saves an average of 4.5kg of wood per day, reducing wood consumption by 40%
12 permanent jobs created

New offsetting guide published

If you’d like to learn more about carbon offsetting, why it’s so urgently needed, and the positive difference you can make by taking climate action, check out our new interactive guide. And don’t be shy – share it with friends and amplify your impact!

SEE THE OFFSETTING GUIDE

Making climate action simpler

We’re excited to inform you of some upgrades to our systems. Now any credits purchased through the Gold Standard website are transparently retired (taken out of circulation) in the Gold Standard Impact Registry within minutes of completing a purchase. You also instantly receive a certificate documenting your purchase with links to the relevant retirements in the Registry. These updates provide a quick, easy way to trace your offset purchase and retirement.

We are also working to add credit card payment options and to allow users to buy credits on behalf of their business or as a gift for family or friends.

We are always trying to improve, so if you had any problems when making an order or have any suggestions to enhance the process, please let us know.

Supporting the cause

We are thrilled to announce our first global ambassador Jeremy Jauncey – founder and CEO of Beautiful Destinations and also an ambassador for our parent organisation WWF.

Jeremy believes in travel as a force for good. That’s why he advocates for more sustainable travel – as for many of us, business and personal travel represents the largest part of our carbon footprint. Flying has a disproportionate climate impact, and the aviation industry is one of the most challenging to decarbonise. This means it’s more important than ever for each of us to take responsibility for our own impact.

Offset your summer travel

If you’ve managed to take a break this summer and would like to take responsibility for the climate impact of your travel, you can support a range of climate protection projects, from community-based energy access activities to innovative renewable energy installations, all across the globe.

OFFSET YOUR EMISSIONS

Global Heroes for Local Heroes

Rob de Rooij — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 10:23:36 +0000

Vandaag, 28 augustus 2020, publiceert Global Climate de concept definitie voor zijn platform. Lees hieronder hoe zaken in de nabije toekomst, vanuit betrokkenheid, gerealiseerd gaan worden:

Global Heroes for Local Heroes…

...is ons motto voor ondersteuning van projecten die de transitie naar een duurzame leefomgeving bewerkstelligen. Deze projecten zijn Gold Standard gecertificeerd of krijgen hiertoe een mogelijkheid door middel van pre-certificatie. Dit noemen we Global Climate PRECERT. PRECERT komt tot stand door onderbouwing van relevante experts en helpt bij het voordragen richting certificatie. Het platform dat het traject richting certificatie ondersteunt heet Global Climate. Realisatie wordt mogelijk door participatie van bedrijven en particulieren. Onder participatie wordt verstaan: eigen CO2-uitstoot compensatie, of vooruit helpen van CO2-uitstoot reductie door donatie. Naast overkoepelende CO2 reductie zullen de duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelen (SDG’s) van de Verenigde Naties ten grondslag moeten liggen aan Global Climate PRECERT projecten.

Rob de Rooij – Global Climate