Credible Carbon

Credible Carbon™ is a voluntary market carbon registry that certifies and trades African carbon projects that make a direct impact on poverty. Credible Carbon evolved from a deep understanding of the limitations of the CDM for small, poverty alleviating projects, and has been designed to fill the project registration gap left by CDM in Africa. 

Avoiding carbon-emitting activities is the best response, but you can help to offset the carbon that you do emit and simultaneously improve the living conditions for people in Africa by purchasing VERs (Voluntary/Verified Emission Reductions - carbon credits) from Credible Carbon. Credible Carbon distinguishes itself from other carbon registries by ensuring that all projects comply with the following conditions:

  • Real projects, real people, real benefits (we don't trade business plans!)
  • Carbon + poverty alleviation
  • 70% of net carbon revenue returned to the project benefciaries as cash or reinvestment
  • Sub-Saharan African
  • Locally developed projects
  • Only 25% of projects developed through carbon sequestration
  • Independently audited by recognised expert entities

Credible Carbon is a registry that was designed to support projects and constantly seeks to reduce the transaction costs for small, poverty-alleviating projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions using methodologies recognised by the CDM.

Every Credible Carbon project is independently audited and has to comply with the registry's FOUR BIG QUESTIONS:

  • Is the project real - does it exist? We do not forward-trade carbon off the back of business plans or cheap talk?
  • Is the planned technology in place and functioning according to its design specification?
  • Is the quantification of carbon in line with locally and internationally accepted norms, unbiased and verifiable?
  • Does the project make a discernable iimpact on poverty?

We think that the answers to these FOUR BIG QUESTIONS provide buyers with the type and quality of information that they require; more so than many of the thick, deliberately incomprehensible and vague (not to mention expensive) documents that have come to be associated with CDM and voluntary market audit processes.   

Our audits are conducted by independent and recognised entities, typically last 4 days, always involve a site visit and beneficiary interviews, and cost between 10 and 100 times less than the alternatives. Past audits have been conducted by the University of Cape Town's Energy Research Centre, SouthSouthNorth and Carbon Calculated, all of whom have a recognised reputation in the industry and a valuable track-record associated with uncompromising rigour.