Credible Carbon

Credible Carbon is a registry that sells credits from projects that are independently audited against carbon market standards that have been approved by the UNFCCC. We pride ourselves on creating a transparent and robust carbon trading system that gets as much money as possible to projects that are part of South Africa’s climate change solution Avoiding carbon-emitting activities is your key (and first) responsibility; but when emissions are unavoidable, buying an offset from an emission reduction project can make reducing greenhouse gas emissions affordable. Credible Carbon offsets also improve the living conditions for people in South Africa because we only register projects that help alleviate poverty. Every Credible Carbon project is independently audited and has to comply with the Credible Carbon Standard. We understand that the principals in a carbon market are the buyers and the sellers, we are simply a necessary transaction cost. As such we aim to make our process as streamlined as possible without compromising market integrity or the fungibility of our credits. The standard is simple and powerful and requires projects to answer four grounding questions: