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Find if your project could qualify as a Credible Carbon offset project.
What is Credible Carbon?
Credible Carbon is a South African registry promoting transparent and accountable access to the global carbon market for poverty-alleviating projects in Africa.
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Why offset carbon with us?
Credible Carbon ensures that as much offset money as possible is returned to carbon-reducing projects. Our streamlined process of vetting projects allows us to support small projects which have high developmental co-benefits.
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How is this done?
Credible Carbon is unique in requiring no upfront registration or audit fees from projects. All projects are independently audited against approved methodologies and fees are deducted from sales revenue.
- Decide on the quantity of offsets to buy
- Choose a project that suits you
- Purchase offsets (credit card, EFT or PayPal)
- Retire, trade or hold onto your credits
- Learn more about what you receive
Carbon Offset Projects
Hout Bay Recycling Co-op
- Technology › Waste recycling and composting
- Project developer › Thrive Hout Bay/ PACE
- Audited credits to date › 4 611 tCO2
A social enterprise started by Thrive Hout Bay saw residents of Imizamo Yethu township in Hout Bay begin recycling in 2009.
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Wildlands Conservation Trust
- Audited credits to date › 10 457 tCO2
The Wildlands Conservation Trust (WCT) assists local communities and local governments in realising the virtuous cycles between human and ecological well-being.
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Kuyasa
- Project developer › PACE
- Audited credits to date › 36 792 tCO2
Kuyasa is a low-carbon housing development in one of the poorest and most vulnerable corners of Khayelitsha, Western Cape.
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uMdoni
- Technology › Burning of bioethanol gel in fuel stoves
- Project developer › PACE and Project Preparation Trust
- Audited credits to date › 9 806 tCO2
The uMdoni Municipality and the Project Preparation Trust (PPT) are partners in this project with PACE.
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Spier Mob Grazing – regenerative agriculture
- Project developer › PACE
- Audited credits to date › 15 886 tCO2
Since April 2009 Angus McIntosh has managed a portion of Spier agriculture that involves 154 hectares of irrigated pasture and vineyards.
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Stellenbosch Community Recycling
- Technology › AMS-III.AJ (CDM) Recovery and recycling solid waste that would otherwise have ended up in landfill, using DEFRA 2018 conversion factors.
- Project developer › CL Waste and Scrap Metal
- Audited credits to date › 39 977 tCO2
The Stellenbosch Community Recycling project makes recycling easier by establishing community-based recycling drop-offs and providing monetary incentives for currently unemployed people to be active in waste collection and waste sorting.
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Grootbos Carbon Project
- Technology › VCS VM0006, DEFRA emissions factors
- Project developer › Grootbos Accommodation Enterprises
- Audited credits to date › 7 659 tCO2
Grootbos Nature Reserve was started in 1991 and saw the discontinuation of all farming, and the introduction of active measures to restore the natural vegetation and sequestrate carbon.
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ReCarbon Uitenhage
- Technology › Avoidance of methane production from biomass decay through composting and methane recovery in wastewater treatment
- Project developer › ReCarbon Ground Trading
- Audited credits to date › 8 014 tCO2
We would like to see a world in which composting companies of tomorrow replace the oil companies of today in the local economy.
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ReCarbon Hermanus
- Technology › Avoidance of methane production from biomass decay through composting
- Project developer › Recarbon Ground Trading
- Audited credits to date › 30 209 tCO2
We would like to see a world in which composting companies of tomorrow replace the oil companies of today in the local economy.
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Welbedacht – Energy Efficient Housing
- Technology › solar water heaters, CFL light bulbs, bioethanol gel stoves, photovoltaic panels
- Project developer › PACE (NPO 055-238) and Project Preparation Trust
- Audited credits to date › 371 tCO2
This project was originally designed by USAID to demonstrate appropriate energy efficient technologies in low-income households in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa.
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Reliance Compost
- Audited credits to date › 1 300 824 tCO2
We would like to see a world in which composting companies of tomorrow replace the oil companies of today in the local economy.
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Walker’s Recycling
- Technology › Recycling, avoiding landfill emissions
- Project developer › PACE
- Audited credits to date › 12 339 tCO2
Walkers Recycling is a family-run business started in 2005 by Eddie Walker. The business collects high-value recyclable material from the Cape Town CBD.
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Carbon Offset to Date
1 392 285 tCO2
Revenue to projects after audit, legal and registry fees
83%
Total funds transferred to projects
ZAR 40.2 million
