Carbon Credits
'Carbon credits' are used in the global effort to reduce world pollution. Each carbon credit represents 1 tonne of CO2 which has been avoided or sequestered.
Talking about carbon involves us in a complicated mix of science, economics, politics, business and the simple desire for a cleaner world. The important thing to know is that mandatory and voluntary carbon credits collectively bring about the development and use of greener technology and the creation or preservation of native forests and other natural resources.
We deal in voluntary woodland carbon sequestration schemes. When our clients pay for the planting of a certain area of new woodland they are in fact paying for the removal from the atmosphere of a certain number of 1-tonne units of CO2 (or in effect therefore buying a certain number of 'carbon credits'). These 'credits' are not traded further by our buyers, they are instead ‘retired’ (ie cancelled against the emissions the buyer was seeking to capture) and serve only to register the amount of CO2 removal a buyer has sponsored.
Talking about carbon involves us in a complicated mix of science, economics, politics, business and the simple desire for a cleaner world. The important thing to know is that mandatory and voluntary carbon credits collectively bring about the development and use of greener technology and the creation or preservation of native forests and other natural resources.
We deal in voluntary woodland carbon sequestration schemes. When our clients pay for the planting of a certain area of new woodland they are in fact paying for the removal from the atmosphere of a certain number of 1-tonne units of CO2 (or in effect therefore buying a certain number of 'carbon credits'). These 'credits' are not traded further by our buyers, they are instead ‘retired’ (ie cancelled against the emissions the buyer was seeking to capture) and serve only to register the amount of CO2 removal a buyer has sponsored.
The carbon credits generated by UK woodlands, and certified under the UK Woodland Carbon Code, are not part of any statutory Kyoto Protocol driven international trading scheme - they are generated purely for voluntary buyers to use against their own or their customers' local emissions.