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Retiring carbon credits can be a powerful tool for individuals and businesses to offset their carbon emissions and contribute to a greener future. By retiring these credits, we can ensure that the emissions reduction achieved is permanent and not double-counted, creating a more transparent and effective carbon market. 

This approach not only helps combat climate change but also encourages the development of sustainable practices and technologies. 

If you’re into knowing about how the process works, this article will explain everything you need to know about carbon credit retirement. Let’s begin by explaining how these credits work.

Understanding How Carbon Credits Work

Carbon credits are tradable certificates that give entities the right to emit a tonne of CO2 or its equivalent. They are generated by projects that reduce or remove CO2 from the atmosphere like planting trees. 

The credits serve as a permit, allowing the holder to neutralize their emissions. In that way, they work like renewable energy certificates (RECs) which are also a market-based instrument that certifies the holder owns a megawatt-hour of electricity from a clean energy source. 

Essentially, RECs are a type of carbon credit alongside many others. These credits come in two major categories: compliance and voluntary markets. 

In the voluntary carbon markets, carbon credits are also called offsets. Emitters voluntarily bought them to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. 

In the compliance markets, businesses’ emissions are ‘capped’. If they go beyond that cap or limit, they’re fined or they can buy carbon credits corresponding to the amount of their excess emissions. 

The Lifecycle of a Carbon Credit

Retiring carbon credits involves a series of stages. But let’s focus on the last three crucial steps that ensure the integrity of the credits, the process of trading them, and what it means to retire them. 

carbon credit lifecycle

The verification process is critical for ensuring the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of reported project data. Verifiers have to confirm a project’s compliance with the carbon program’s eligibility criteria. They validate the collection of project monitoring data as per program requirements and verify the accuracy of emissions reduction calculations based on approved methodologies.

After a project has undergone the verification processes, it becomes eligible for registration within the program. In other words, the credits they generate are now available for trading. 

Carbon credit trading has become very popular today among individuals and organizations and various carbon exchanges began to emerge. This is happening for a simple reason: Reducing GHG emissions is a global initiative and the carbon market offers great opportunities for entities seeking to cut their emissions.

You can buy or trade carbon credits for retirement purposes through various platforms. There are a couple of online carbon credit marketplaces and spot exchanges to choose from. 

Here are the top four carbon exchanges this 2024 that you can consider. You can also try popular marketplaces like the one that Salesforce launched or that of Alcove’s.

Lastly, let’s move toward the end goal of carbon credit trading – retirement. 

The Retirement Process Explained

Carbon credit retirement also means their death. 

A carbon credit is retired once its benefit has taken place. That means it has been used and the carbon benefit it represents has been claimed by the entity that bought it. 

Retiring your carbon credits requires you to ensure that they are removed from the marketplace and labeled as ‘retired’ in any records or registry. The retired credits must serve their emission reduction purpose only once to prevent double counting. 

Take note that retirement only occurs once the impact has happened. This means retiring your carbon credits depends on what type of credit you purchase. 

If you’ve bought ex-post carbon credits, you can retire them right after your purchase. You can then instantly get the proof of retirement.

For ex-ante and pre-purchase carbon credits, retiring them won’t happen immediately after you bought them. That’s because their impact hasn’t yet occurred and their retirement should be in the future. You should know when the timeline would be from the seller or the marketplace where you purchase the credits. It may take months or even years, depending on the specific project you invest in.

Impact and Benefits of Retiring Carbon Credits

By buying carbon credits, entities help fund efforts that support decarbonization elsewhere. These initiatives often yield positive benefits to the environment and local communities. More importantly, each credit retired helps quantify the actual environmental impact of those projects.

When it comes to the impact of retiring carbon credits on investors, be it individuals or companies, it has two major effects. 

First, it preserves the integrity and effectiveness of emission reduction projects. It prevents double counting or reusing of the credits by multiple entities. This further guarantees transparency and accountability in the carbon markets

In effect, carbon credit retirement instills confidence among companies regarding the impact of their purchases or investments. 

Thus, secondly, retiring carbon credits helps build a good reputation and enhance brand value of your company. Take for instance the case of large businesses supporting various carbon reduction projects.

Giant technology companies like Microsoft and Apple have been investing millions in carbon offsets from projects that either reduce or sequester carbon from the atmosphere. 

As they do that, they’re not only addressing their emissions but also dealing with their corporate sustainability. 

The Role of Carbon Credits in Corporate Sustainability

So, how do carbon credits become the new currency of ESG investing to meet environmental obligations and corporate sustainability? 

In the U.S., the coin of the realm is dollars while in the EU, it’s Euro. In the ESG world, it’s the carbon credit. Carbon credits are taking a small space on the ESG goals of businesses. 

But as more companies are pledging to reach net zero, these credits are also gaining more momentum in ESG investing to ramp up carbon emission reductions. And slashing emissions has now become a critical element of corporate and environmental responsibility to help fight climate change. 

Corporations use carbon credits to reach their net zero, carbon neutrality, or carbon negative goals. As such, research firms estimated that the carbon market will grow as much as 30x more by 2030. If that happens, the market will be as huge as the NASDAQ stock market by the decade’s end. 

According to the independent firm Katusa Research, the overall carbon market (compliance and voluntary) could be on equal footing as the oil market.

total carbon market size
Source: Katusa Research

The burning of fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide, contributing to climate change. Different corporate climate goals mean different things. 

Achieving carbon neutrality means balancing emitted and removed CO2. Daily actions like driving emit CO2, but walking or using renewables can reduce it. Carbon credit offsets fund CO2 removal projects. 

Carbon negative goes beyond neutrality, removing more CO2 than emitted. For instance, Microsoft aims for carbon negativity by 2030, promising to remove all emissions since its founding. H&M and Ikea also strive for “climate positive,” akin to carbon negativity efforts. Their strategies involve sustainability investments and reduced emissions.

Best Practices in Carbon Credit Retirement

Now, that you know how carbon credits work, the importance of retiring them, and the processes involved, there’s one more thing left to keep in mind. What are the best practices to follow when retiring carbon credits?

We summarize them in two essential points: selecting the right carbon credit projects and transparent reporting of the retirement. 

As mentioned earlier, there are plenty of projects generating carbon credits. There are 170+ of them as per the Ecosystem Marketplace report. 

EM carbon project categories

So, you must choose the ones that suit your purpose very well. If you’re into nature-based initiatives, you may pick from the different forestry and land use projects, i.e. REDD+. But if you’re operating in the power sector, you may want to go for renewable energy such as supporting solar or wind projects.

Regardless of your choice, be sure to be informed of the existing standards and methodologies for that project. This is crucial so that your carbon credit investment would count by actually reducing emissions. That entails being transparent in reporting your retirement. 

Transparency is one of the biggest concerns plaguing the carbon market right now. Questions were raised as to the effectiveness of carbon projects in delivering their emission reduction promises. This caused a rapid decline in voluntary carbon credit prices, particularly the nature-based offsets. 

Yet, current and future innovations in carbon credit markets show that they are here to stay and will continue to play a significant role in curbing GHG emissions. 

The Future of Carbon Credits

Recent innovations such as the launch of insurance products that protect carbon credits indicate that the market is heading in the right direction. Application integration like the case between Alcove and Shopify is another important market development that tackles transparency in credit retirement.

The use of blockchain technology is also considered a solution to make carbon credit retirement easier to track. Add to this the big players entering the market to further address transparency in tracking the lifecycle of each credit. For example, the NASDAQ exchange launched an innovative technology to revolutionize the industry.

Nasdaq’s new approach uses smart contracts for secure transactions and promises to bring much-needed standardization to attract investors​​.

Moreover, announcements by countries to integrate carbon markets into national registries also suggest that trading and retiring carbon credits would become the standard in curbing emissions and fighting the climate crisis.

Retiring carbon credits offers a potent solution for emission offsetting, ensuring permanence and market transparency. Understanding their lifecycle—from generation through retirement—underscores their pivotal role in emissions reduction.

This practice not only bolsters project integrity but also fosters trust and transparency. Beyond emissions reduction, it fuels environmental initiatives, fortifies sustainability, and enhances brand value. They are also the cornerstone of achieving net zero goals.

By knowing these important things about carbon credits and their retirement, you can now start your own journey in contributing to the climate change fight. Our education dashboard is packed with diverse resources you can use as a guide, from understanding deeper about carbon credits to companies you can consider.

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Finding Nature Based Solutions in Your Supply Chain

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“…Protecting nature makes our business more resilient…”

For companies with land, water, food, fiber, or commodity exposure, the supply chain may be the most practical place to turn nature from a risk into an operating asset.

Your supply chain already has a nature strategy. It may be undocumented. It may live in procurement files, supplier contracts, commodity maps, and one spreadsheet nobody opens without coffee. But it exists.

If your business depends on farms, forests, water, soil, packaging, rubber, timber, fibers, minerals, or food ingredients, nature is part of your operating system. The question is whether you manage that system with intent, or discover it during a disruption, audit, or difficult board question.

That is why more companies are asking how to find Nature-Based Solutions in Your Supply Chain. Do not begin by shopping for offsets. Begin by asking where nature already affects cost, continuity, emissions, regulatory exposure, and supplier resilience.

What Nature-Based Solutions in Your Supply Chain Means

The European Commission defines nature-based solutions as approaches inspired and supported by nature that are cost-effective, deliver environmental, social, and economic benefits, and help build resilience. They should also benefit biodiversity and support ecosystem services.

In supply-chain terms, that becomes practical. Nature-based solutions in your supply chain can include agroforestry in cocoa, coffee, rubber, or palm supply chains. They can include soil health programs for food ingredients, watershed restoration near water-intensive operations, mangrove restoration linked to coastal sourcing regions, and avoided deforestation in forest-linked commodities.

The key test is business relevance. If your procurement team relies on a landscape, watershed, crop, or supplier base, that is where opportunity may sit. The best projects do not hover outside the business like a framed certificate. They plug into the system that already produces your revenue.

Why the Boardroom Should Care

For many companies, the largest climate and nature exposure sits outside direct operations. The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Standard gives companies a method to account for and report value-chain emissions across sectors. Purchased goods, land use, transport, supplier energy, and product use can make direct emissions look like the visible tip of a very large iceberg.

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures notes that many nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities arise upstream and downstream. That is why nature-based supply chain investments matter to boards. You are managing supply security, audit readiness, investor confidence, and regulatory preparedness.

For companies exposed to EU markets, this also connects to rules and expectations such as CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR, and SBTi FLAG.

Step One: Map Where You Touch Land, Water, and Living Systems

Finding Nature-Based Solutions in Your Supply Chain starts with mapping, not marketing.

Begin with procurement and Scope 3 data. Which categories carry high spend, high emissions, or high sourcing risk? Which suppliers depend on agriculture, forestry, mining, water-intensive processing, or land conversion? Which regions face water stress, heat, flood risk, soil degradation, deforestation, or biodiversity pressure?

The Science Based Targets Network uses a clear process for companies: assess, prioritize, set targets, act, and track. That sequence keeps companies from treating nature as a mood board. You identify where the business has exposure, then decide where intervention can create measurable value.

Step Two: Look for Operational Value Before Carbon Value

This is the center of CCC’s Dual-Value Model. A nature-based supply chain investment should do useful work for the business before anyone counts the carbon.

Agroforestry may improve farmer resilience, shade crops, protect soil, and reduce pressure on forests. Watershed restoration may reduce water risk for beverage, textile, or manufacturing sites. Soil health programs may improve the stability of agricultural inputs.

Carbon and sustainability value can still be created. In some cases, the project may support Scope 3 insetting. In others, it may generate verified carbon credits. Sometimes the main value may be resilience, readiness, and better supplier data.

The IPCC has found that ecosystem-based adaptation can reduce climate risks to people, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, with multiple co-benefits, while also warning that effectiveness declines as warming increases. That is a sober argument for acting early.

Step Three: Separate Insetting, Offsetting, and Resilience

Nature-based solutions in your supply chain are not automatically carbon credits. They are not automatically Scope 3 reductions either.

An insetting opportunity usually sits inside or close to your value chain. It may support Scope 3 reporting if the accounting rules, project boundaries, supplier connection, and data quality are strong enough.

An offsetting opportunity usually involves verified credits outside your value chain. High-quality credits can still play a role for residual emissions, but they should not distract from direct reductions or credible value-chain work.

A resilience opportunity may deliver business value even if you cannot claim a Scope 3 reduction immediately. That may include water security, supplier capacity, land restoration, biodiversity protection, or regulatory readiness.

Gold Standard’s Scope 3 value-chain guidance focuses on reporting emissions reductions from interventions in purchased goods and services. Verra’s Scope 3 Standard Program is being developed to certify value-chain interventions and issue units for companies’ emissions accounting. The direction is clear: stronger evidence, tighter boundaries, and more disciplined claims.

Step Four: Design for Audit-Readiness From the Beginning

Weak data is where promising nature projects go to become expensive anecdotes.

Before public claims are made, you need to know the baseline. What would have happened without the project? Who owns or manages the land? Which suppliers are involved? How will outcomes be measured? How will leakage, permanence, and double counting be addressed?

The GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Standard gives companies methods to quantify, report, and track land emissions, CO2 removals, and related metrics. This matters because land projects are rarely neat. Farms change practices. Suppliers shift volumes. Weather changes outcomes.

What Recent Corporate Examples Show

Recent case studies show that supply-chain nature work is becoming more serious, and more scrutinized.

Reuters has reported on insetting to reduce emissions within supply chains, including examples linked to Reckitt, Danone, Nestlé, Earthworm Foundation, and Nature-based Insights. The same article highlights familiar problems: measurement, double counting, supplier incentives, and credibility.

Reuters has also reported on companies using the Science Based Targets Network process to examine nature impacts. GSK, Holcim, and Kering were among the first companies with validated science-based targets for nature.

The Financial Times has covered the promise and difficulty of soil carbon in corporate supply chains, including a PepsiCo example in India where yields reportedly increased while greenhouse gas emissions fell. The lesson is that carbon, soil, biodiversity, farmer economics, and measurement need to be handled together.

A Practical Screening Checklist

A supply-chain nature-based solution deserves deeper review when you can answer yes to most of these questions:

  • Does it sit in or near a material supply-chain hotspot?
  • Does it address a real business risk?
  • Can you connect it to supplier behavior, land management, or sourcing practices?
  • Can the outcomes be measured?
  • Are the claim boundaries clear?
  • Does it support Scope 3 strategy, SBTi FLAG, CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR, or investor reporting needs?
  • Are permanence, leakage, land rights, and community issues addressed?

Build the Asset, Then Make the Claim

Finding Nature-Based Solutions in Your Supply Chain is about identifying where your business already depends on living systems, then designing interventions that make those systems more resilient, measurable, and commercially useful.

For companies with material Scope 3 exposure, the right project can support supplier resilience, emissions strategy, regulatory readiness, and credible climate communication. The wrong project can become a glossy story with a weak audit trail.

Carbon Credit Capital helps companies design nature-based carbon and sustainability assets that embed directly into corporate supply chains. Through CCC’s Dual-Value Model, you can assess where sustainability investment may support operational resilience, Scope 3 insetting eligibility, regulatory readiness, and high-quality carbon or sustainability value.

Schedule your consultation with the carbon and sustainability experts at Carbon Credit Capital to explore how nature-based supply chain investments can support your next stage of climate strategy.

Sources

  1. European Commission: Nature-based solutions
  2. GHG Protocol: Corporate Value Chain Scope 3 Standard
  3. TNFD: Guidance on value chains
  4. European Commission: Corporate Sustainability Reporting
  5. European Commission: Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence
  6. European Commission: Regulation on Deforestation-free Products
  7. SBTi: Forest, Land and Agriculture FLAG
  8. Science Based Targets Network: Take Action
  9. IPCC AR6 WGII Summary for Policymakers
  10. Gold Standard: Scope 3 Value Chain Interventions Guidance
  11. Verra: Scope 3 Standard Program
  12. GHG Protocol: Land Sector and Removals Standard
  13. Reuters: Can insetting stack the cards towards more sustainable supply chains?
  14. Reuters: Three companies put their impacts on nature under a microscope
  15. Financial Times: The dubious climate gains of turning soil into a carbon sink

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How Climate Change Is Raising the Cost of Living

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Americans are paying more for insurance, electricity, taxes, and home repairs every year. What many people may not realize is that climate change is already one of the drivers behind those rising costs.

For many households, climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It is becoming a cost-of-living issue. While climate impacts like melting glaciers and shrinking polar ice can feel distant from everyday life, the financial effects are already showing up in monthly budgets across the country.

Today, a larger share of household income is consumed by fixed costs such as housing, insurance, utilities, and healthcare. (3) Climate change and climate inaction are adding pressure to many of those expenses through higher disaster recovery costs, rising energy demand, infrastructure repairs, and increased insurance risk.

The goal of this article is to help connect climate change to the everyday financial realities people already experience. Regardless of where someone stands on climate policy, it is important to recognize that climate change is already increasing costs for households, businesses, and taxpayers across the United States.

More conservative estimates indicate that the average household has experienced an increase of about $400 per year from observed climate change, while less conservative estimates suggest an increase of $900.(1) Those in more disaster-prone regions of the country face disproportionate costs, with some households experiencing climate-related costs averaging $1,300 per year.(1) Another study found that climate adaptation costs driven by climate change have already consumed over 3% of personal income in the U.S. since 2015.(9) By the end of the century, housing units could spend an additional $5,600 on adaptation costs.(1)

Whether we realize it or not, Americans are already paying for climate change through higher insurance premiums, energy costs, taxes, and infrastructure repairs. These growing expenses are often referred to as climate adaptation costs.

Without meaningful climate action, these costs are expected to continue rising. Choosing not to invest in climate action is also choosing to spend more on climate adaptation.

Here are a few ways climate change is already increasing the cost of living:

  • Higher insurance costs from more frequent and severe storms
  • Higher energy use during longer and hotter summers
  • Higher electricity rates tied to storm recovery and grid upgrades
  • Higher government spending and taxpayer-funded disaster recovery costs

The real debate is not whether climate change costs money. Americans are already paying for it. The question is where we want those costs to go. Should we invest more in climate action to help reduce future climate adaptation costs, or continue paying growing recovery and adaptation expenses in everyday life?

How Climate Change Is Increasing Insurance Costs

There is one industry that closely tracks the financial impact of natural disasters: insurance. Insurance companies are focused on assessing risk, estimating damages, and collecting enough revenue to cover losses and remain financially stable.

Comparing the 20-year periods 1980–1999 and 2000–2019, climate-related disasters increased 83% globally from 3,656 events to 6,681 events. The average time between billion-dollar disasters dropped from 82 days during the 1980s to 16 days during the last 10 years, and in 2025 the average time between disasters fell to just 10 days. (6)

According to the reinsurance firm Munich Re, total economic losses from natural disasters in 2024 exceeded $320 billion globally, nearly 40% higher than the decade-long annual average. Average annual inflation-adjusted costs more than quadrupled from $22.6 billion per year in the 1980s to $102 billion per year in the 2010s. Costs increased further to an average of $153.2 billion annually during 2020–2024, representing another 50% increase over the 2010s. (6)

In the United States, billion-dollar weather and climate disasters have also increased significantly. The average number of billion-dollar disasters per year has grown from roughly three annually during the 1980s to 19 annually over the last decade. In 2023 and 2024, the U.S. recorded 28 and 27 billion-dollar disasters respectively, both setting new records. (6)

The growing impact of climate change is one reason insurance costs continue to rise. “There are two things that drive insurance loss costs, which is the frequency of events and how much they cost,” said Robert Passmore, assistant vice president of personal lines at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. “So, as these events become more frequent, that’s definitely going to have an impact.” (8)

After adjusting for inflation, insurance costs have steadily increased over time. From 2000 to 2020, insurance costs consistently grew faster than the Consumer Price Index due to rising rebuilding costs and weather-related losses.(3) Between 2020 and 2023 alone, the average home insurance premium increased from $75 to $360 due to climate change impacts, with disaster-prone regions experiencing especially steep increases.(1) Since 2015, homeowners in some regions affected by more extreme weather have seen home insurance costs increased by nearly 57%.(1) Some insurers have also limited or stopped offering coverage in high-risk areas.(7)

For many families, rising insurance costs are no longer occasional financial burdens. They are becoming recurring monthly expenses tied directly to growing climate risk.

How Rising Temperatures Increase Household Energy Costs

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The financial impacts of climate change extend beyond insurance. Rising temperatures are also changing how much energy Americans use and how utilities plan for future electricity demand.

Between 1950 and 2010, per capita electricity use increased 10-fold, though usage has flattened or slightly declined since 2012 due to more efficient appliances and LED lighting. (3) A significant share of increased energy demand comes from cooling needs associated with higher temperatures.

Over the last 20 years, the United States has experienced increasing Cooling Degree Days (CDD) and decreasing Heating Degree Days (HDD). Nearly all counties have become warmer over the past three decades, with some areas experiencing several hundred additional cooling degree days, equivalent to roughly one additional degree of warmth on most days. (1) This trend reflects a warming climate where air conditioning demand is increasing while heating demand generally declines. (4)

As temperatures continue rising, households are expected to spend more on cooling than they save on heating. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that by 2050, national Heating Degree Days will be 11% lower while Cooling Degree Days will be 28% higher than 2021 levels. Cooling demand is projected to rise 2.5 times faster than heating demand declines. (5)

These projections come from energy and infrastructure experts planning for future electricity demand and grid capacity needs. Utilities and grid operators are already preparing for higher peak summer electricity loads caused by rising temperatures. (5)

Longer and hotter summers also affect how homes and buildings are designed. Buildings constructed for past climate conditions may require upgrades such as larger air conditioning systems, stronger insulation, and improved ventilation to remain comfortable and energy efficient in the future. (10)

For many households, this means higher monthly utility bills and potentially higher long-term home improvement costs as temperatures continue to rise.

How Climate Change Affects Electricity Rates

On an inflation-adjusted basis, average U.S. residential electricity rates are slightly lower today than they were 50 years ago. (2) However, climate-related damage to utility infrastructure is creating new upward pressure on electricity costs.

Electric utilities rely heavily on above-ground poles, wires, transformers, and substations that can be damaged by hurricanes, storms, floods, and wildfires. Repairing and upgrading this infrastructure often requires substantial investment.

As a result, utilities are increasing electricity rates in response to wildfire and hurricane events to fund infrastructure repairs and future mitigation efforts. (1) The average cumulative increase in per-household electricity expenditures due to climate-related price changes is approximately $30. (1)

While this increase may appear modest today, utility costs are expected to rise further as climate-related infrastructure damage becomes more frequent and severe.

How Climate Disasters Increase Government Spending and Taxes

Extreme weather events also damage public infrastructure, including roads, schools, bridges, airports, water systems, and emergency services infrastructure. Recovery and rebuilding costs are often funded through taxpayer dollars at the federal, state, and local levels.

The average annual government cost tied to climate-related disaster recovery is estimated at nearly $142 per household. (1) States that frequently experience hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, or flooding can face even higher public recovery costs.

These expenses affect taxpayers whether they personally experience a disaster or not. Climate-related recovery spending can increase pressure on public budgets, emergency management systems, and infrastructure funding nationwide.

Reducing Climate Costs Through Climate Action

While this article focuses on the growing financial costs associated with climate change, the issue is not only about money for many people. It is also about recognizing our environmental impact and taking responsibility for reducing it in order to help preserve a healthy planet for future generations.

While individuals alone cannot solve climate change, collective action can help reduce future climate adaptation costs over time.

For those interested in taking action, there are three important steps:

  1. Estimate your carbon footprint to better understand the emissions connected to your lifestyle and activities.
  2. Create a plan to gradually reduce emissions through energy efficiency, cleaner technologies, and more sustainable choices.
  3. Address remaining emissions by supporting verified carbon reduction projects through carbon credits.

Carbon credits are one of the most cost-effective tools available for climate action because they help fund projects that generate verified emission reductions at scale. Supporting global emission reduction efforts can help reduce the long-term impacts and costs associated with climate change.

Visit Terrapass to learn more about carbon footprints, carbon credits, and climate action solutions.

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Carbon credit project stewardship: what happens after credit issuance

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A carbon credit purchase is not a transaction that closes at issuance. The credit may be retired, the certificate filed, and the reporting box ticked. But on the ground, in the forest, in the field, and in the community, the work continues. It endures for years. In many cases, for decades.

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