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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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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.

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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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Credible Carbon Registry Statistics

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

Carbon Credits Available

86 323 tCO2