Projects and Standards
Over the last decade the company has worked with 200 projects in 24 countries. It contracted approximately 2 million tonnes of CO2e in 2009. To ensure quality in its operations, the company developed a global standard for carbon neutral certification: The Carbon Neutral Protocol which lays out the requirements a business must meet in order for it, its services or its products to be certified CarbonNeutral.
According to this protocol, all projects must be validated and verified by independent third parties such as the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Gold Standard and Climate Action Reserve (CAR). The company’s operations are audited by PwC to ensure proper retiring of credits and no double counting.
Read more about this topic: The Carbon Neutral Company
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