Carbon Neutrality Transparency

Recovery of used refrigerants from HVAC and Fire Suppression Systems

Refrigerants have transformed our society by providing ways to store and preserve food, medicine and other vital products. However, HFC’s are some of the most potent greenhouse gases on the planet – hundreds of times more powerful than carbon. The recovery of these these HFC’s reduces the production and release of virgin HFC’s into the atmosphere and the greenhouse gas reductions are permanent.

The main purpose of this project is to generate clean forms of electricity through renewable wind energy sources. The project involves the installation of a 100-megawatt wind farm in the state of Gujarat, India. Over the first ten years of its crediting period, the project will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses (estimated to be approximately 172,333 tCO₂e per year), thereon displacing 183,960 megawatt-hours/year of electricity from the generation-mix of power plants connected to the Indian grid—itself dominated by thermal and fossil fuel-based power plants.

In addition to expanding renewable wind energy production, this project offers myriad co-benefits, from local job creation to the assurance of higher quality air for those living within the Gujarat region, thanks to the prevention of environmental pollution from oil, gas, and coal-generated electricity.

This project is both additional (it would not have happened without the carbon credit revenues that make the project financially attractive for investors) and permanent (the avoidance of the emissions that would have occurred from a non-renewable energy facility occur in perpetuity).

The Envira Amazonia Tropical Rainforest Conservation Project near Feijó in Acre, Brazil is VCS and CCB triple-gold certified. The project covers an area c. 39,300 hectares of tropical rainforest and foregoes forest conversion to grassland in favour of conserving the tropical forest. The Project preserves rich biodiversity and a wide range of ecosystem services; it benefits the local communities and mitigates the release of ~12.6 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the first 10 years of the Project.