The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn parallels to how we will address the climate crisis, and many of us have forged ahead in our work to prevent the worse climate change scenarios from becoming reality. Over the past several months, as the global community’s attention has been diverted to the health and wellbeing of our friends and family, the livelihood of our local communities, and economic recoveries, we’ve looked for some glimmer of hope and good news. We’re very excited to share with our community a dose of good news – together, we’ve achieved the milestone of over 150 million offset credits issued from the Climate Action Reserve!
For me, this milestone is symbolic and significant on many levels. It represents 150 million tonnes of CO2e that would have been emitted into or remained in the atmosphere. What does that mean? It’s the equivalent to 372,208,436,725 miles driven by an average passenger vehicle or charging 19,129,833,321,353 smartphones. It’s a significant amount, although, we recognize it is only a start and we still have much more work to do.
It also represents the power of what we can accomplish together. The Reserve was founded on the concept of collaboration among different sectors and we continue to support and uphold that belief in all of our work. Achieving over 150 million tonnes of emissions reduction and sequestration required the work, support and ideas of nonprofit organizations, companies in the private sector, academia and government. These groups have been involved with elements of our work in both the voluntary and compliance markets.
And it represents a level of success in our work to address climate change as an environmental nonprofit organization. The Reserve’s mission is “To develop, promote, and support innovative, credible market-based climate change solutions that benefit economies, ecosystems, and society.” I’m extremely proud to work alongside dedicated, passionate colleagues here at the Reserve and with an engaged Board of Directors to strive towards that mission. In a few years, we’ll be approaching the 15-year anniversary of the Reserve program, and I’m looking forward to seeing what we all accomplish together when we reach that milestone.
A big thank you to the project developers that helped make this achievement possible. It takes a lot of dedication and hard work to bring an offset project to fruition, and achieving this milestone couldn’t be possible without the support of:
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1st Climate Solutions DBA Brian R. Anderson Inc. 3Degrees Group, Inc ABEC Bidart-Old River LLC Advanced Disposal Services Maple Hill Landfill, LLC Advanced Disposal Services Morehead Landfill, Inc. Ag Methane Advisors, LLC Alberto Ramirez Alcoa Gas Producers, LLC Alma Land Company ALT Holdings, LLC ALVARO RENE RIVERA JARAMILLO AMC Maine Woods Initiative LLC American Municipal Power, Inc. Angelina County ASOCIACIÓN DE SILVICULTORES DE LA REGIÓN FORESTAL PACHUCA Y TULANCINGO, A.C. Aurora Ridge Dairy, LLC Barnabas Investment Group, LLC Bascom Pacific, LLC BFI Waste Systems of North America, LLC BFI Waste Systems of Oklahoma, LLC Bi-County Gas Producers, LLC Big Run Power Producers, LLC Bioforestal Innovación Sustentable S.C. Black Warrior Solid Waste Disposal Authority Blue Source, LLC Buncombe County Burns ODS, llc Butler County, Kansas CA Department of Parks and Recreation California Bioenergy, LLC California Timberlands 2 LLC Camco Offsets I, LLC Carbon Solutions Group, LLC Central Sanitary Landfill, Inc. CF Industries Nitrogen, LLC Citrus County Division of Solid Waste Management City of Arcata City of Lawton City of Superior City of Thomasville, Georgia City of Walla Walla Climate Trust Capital Fund I LP ClimeCo Corp MCK NAP2, LLC. ClimeCo Corporation coastal forest resources company Coastal Forestlands, LTD., a California Limited Partnership Coastal Ridges LLC Coffee County Commission Consejo Civil Mexicano para la Silvicultura Sostenible AC COOLGAS, INC. Corrigan TLP, LLC Covanta Semass, L.P. CP Energy Marketing (US) Inc CSE Operating I, LLC Cultivo Land PBC David Dicktel Downeast Lakes Land Trust DTE Biomass Energy, Inc. Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Duke University East Dubuque Nitrogen Fertilizers, LLC Ecofrigo EKO Green Carbon Fund, LP Element Markets Emissions, LLC Element Markets, LLC Energía Renovable de Cuautla S.A. de C.V. Exelon Generation Company, LLC Farm Power Northwest LLC Fiscalini Properties, L.P. Forest Carbon Partners, L.P. Fred M Van Eck Forest Foundation for Purdue University Gallo Cattle Company, a Limited Partnership Garland Power & Light Gaston County Solid Waste and Recycling Green Assets Inc. Grotegut Dairy Farm Inc GTR Solid Waste Management Authority Heartwood Forestland Fund IV Limited Partnership Holsum Dairies, LLC Hudson Technologies Company Indigo Ag INTEGRADORA DE COMUNIDADES INDIGENAS Y CAMPESINAS DE OAXACA AC INTELIMETER, S.A. DE C.V. Irony, LLC Jackson Timberland Opportunities-Champion, LLC Kent and Sorensen Overseas, SA de CV Kent County Department of Public Works Kimble Company LSB Industries, Inc. Luminus Energy Partners QP, LP Lyme Brimstone Timberlands LLC Lyme Great Lakes Timberlands LLC Lyme Mountaineer Forest Holdings LLC Lyme Mountaineer Timberlands II LLC |
Lyme Skyline Forest Company LLC Lyme Wisconsin Timberlands LLC Maas Energy Works, Inc. Mahoning Landfill, Inc. Mailliard Ranch, a California Limited Partnership Maple Leaf Dairy, Inc Mattamuskeet Ventures I, LLC Mendocino Redwood Company, LLC Michael A. Noles Middleton Place, LLC Municipio de Toluca/Dirección General de Medio Ambiente del H. Ayuntamiento de Toluca MWF Adirondacks, LLC National Audubon Society, Inc. NativeEnergy, a Public Benefit Corporation New England Forestry Foundation New River Resource Authority Nisqually Land Trust Norfolk Southern Railway Company Northeast Wilderness Trust Northwestern Landfill, Inc. OEKO Service Luxembourg (O.S.L) S.A. Offsetters Clean Technology Inc. Oneida Herkimer Solid Waste Authority OptimaBio, LLC Outlaw Hog Energy, LLC Pacific Gas & Electric Company Passamaquoddy Joint Tribal Council Peak Carbon LLC Peak Carbon Offset LLC Perfect Score Too, LTD Philip Verwey Farms Pivot Bio, Inc Pixley Biogas, LLC PLANALTO S.P.R. DE R.L. Potlatch Forest Holdings, Inc. Public Service Company of Colorado dba Xcel Energy Raleigh County Solid Waste Authority Reclamation Technologies Inc. Renewable Energy Services of Ohio, LLC RenewWest Republic Services of North Carolina, LLC RES Agriculture NC1, LLC Resource Management Service LLC Rips Redwoods, LLC Roeslein Alternative Energy of Missouri, LLC Roseburg LFG Energy, LLC Rowland Land Company Save the Redwoods League Scott Solid Waste Disposal Company Secretaría del Medio Ambiente / Fondo Ambiental para el Cambio Climático Sempervirens Fund SERVICIO Y CONSULTORIA AMBIENTAL Y FORESTAL, S. DE .R.L. DE C.V. Shannondale Carbon, LLC Sieben Live Stock Co Sierra Pacific Industries Smith Gardner, Inc. Solar & Renewables Management, LLC Soluciones Ambientales Yaax Solvay Chemicals, Inc. South Pole USA, Inc. Southern California Edison Southern Plains Land Trust Spatial Informatics Group, LLC Spokane Tribe of Indians Sustainable Energy Solutions LLC Sustainable Mountain Center, LLC Tangipahoa Parish Government Terra Nitrogen, Limited Partnership TerraStar Energy The Climate Trust The Conservation Fund The Nature Conservancy The Newhall Land and Farming Company, LLC The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Walt Disney Company Three Rivers Solid Waste Management Authority Timber Ridge Landfill Company Timberline Energy, LLC TimberLink LLC TMF Biofuels, LLC Trinity Carbon Management LLC U-Haul International, Inc. U.S. Venture, Inc. Usal Redwood Forest Company, LLC VAN-ERK DAIRY LLC Vitol Inc. W. Brinkley Melvin Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District Washington Beef, LLC Waste Services of N. E. Mississippi, Inc. Weaver Cattle Co. WTE-Dairyland, LLC WTE-Dallmann, LLC WTE-Deer Run, LLC WTE-Wakker, LLC Yurok Tribe |
Please check out our infographic for a closer look at the Reserve’s 150 million offset credits:
https://www.climateactionreserve.org/blog/2020/05/01/a-closer-look-at-the-reserves-150-million-offset-credits/
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