Welcome to the Promoting Access to Carbon Equity (PACE) website - the online home of the PACE centre and the Credible Carbon registry. On this website you can find out about our services, and purchase voluntary market carbon credits from poverty alleviating projects in Africa. |
PACE centre services
PACE was established in 2004. Since then we have explored various ways of making the global carbon market work in Africa - and particularly to work for poor people in Africa. The Credible Carbon™ registry, the first of its kind in Africa, seeks to structurally alter the way in which poverty alleviating projects are brought to the market.
In 2011 we sold over 11 000 tCO2 and returned more than R700,000 in carbon revenue to poverty-alleviating projects in southern Africa.
FInd out MORE about the PACE centre's services News13 May 2012 Delighted that both Umdoni and Trashback are being audited in May. Results will be on the web-page as soon as we have them.
 06 May 2012 Slowly, it seems, that people (some people) are coming round to the idea that it is possible to off-set emissions and do some good at the same time..........
 23 April 2012 Talk of carbon tax and carbon pricing is - in the general sense - to be welcomed. We need to price in the impact of CO2 emissions to correct market failure caused by negative externalities. But there may be some lessons from Australia.
 28 February 2012 Developing carbon trading projects is inherently complex, but every now and then a new publication comes out that makes our work easier. Many congrats to Margaret and Amanda at Urban Earth for having the insight to simplify carbon information.
 21 February 2012 There was a time in the early 2000's when WWF (SA) were shy of advocacy. Good to see that that has changed. Carbon already has a cost - the 'social cost of carbon' - that is carried by all citizens. The sooner we price it in the better.
 02 February 2012 At last something from the UN’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability. Good to see an acknowledgement of sustaianable development as a process, and a recognition that how we grow economies is more important than growth itself. Just back from COP17. An impressive event both in terms of scale and content. Not confident about a legally binding, fair and urgent agreement but more hope than a week ago. Impressive none the less to see how many committed people are working on a range of inspiring issues. |
Purchase credits
Credible Carbon is a seperate legal entity. By ensuring that projects comply with strict standards on greenhouse gas reductions and povery alleviation and by accounting for every credit lodged and sold from a variety of projects, Credible Carbon performs the role of a boutique African carbon registry.
View Credible Carbon registry standards here
Register to Purchase Carbon Credits ProjectsThis project, located in the Eastern Cape of South Africa generates credits from the composting sawmill residue to make an organic berry growing medium. The process reduces methane emisisons from the sawmill and displaces inorganic fertiliser.
| Low carbon housing in Cato Manor as part of South Africa's climate adaptation for COP17.
| The COMACO project seeks to alleviate pressure on Zambia’s natural resources by promoting conservation agriculture and alley-cropping for food production in rural communities.
| Greenpop use trees to build social bridges and transform communities in a novel and remarkable way. PACE supported the planting of 1,100 indigenous and fruit bearing trees in Manenberg, outside Cape Town in exchange for the carbon sequestrated by these trees.
| This project involves households displacing coal, wood, paraffin and dung fuel sources with bioethanol gel (a by-product of the local sugarcane industry).
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