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Green-e Climate |
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Green-e Climate is a USA project and focuses on carbon offsets, which are traded in retail markets. It may also be described as a program that looks after protection of customers.
Green-e Climate is the initial certification program of USA. Its area of focus are carbon offsets that are sold in retail markets. It is basically a climate protection program and aims to add strength to voluntary markets. This is done by providing believable supervision and transparency.
Services of Green-e Climate are provided to greenhouse gas emission reduction products that are sold in retail markets. These services are provided right from start till end of the buying process. Green-e Climate is expected to be complimentary to existing regulations that govern reductions of emissions of greenhouse gases.
Consumer Benefits of Green-e Climate
Consumers of greenhouse gas emission reduction products receive a number of benefits from Green-e Climate program. They receive authentic information from Green-e Climate on projects that act as sources of GHG reductions that they possess. They also receive an assurance that ownership of any particular offset bought by them is solely theirs.
Verifications of Green-e Climate
Green-e Climate also provides consumers with a number of verifications. Those may be enumerated as below:
- Supply of offsets by a particular seller is equivalent of sales made by them
- Disclosures provided to consumers are normally accurate
- GHG reductions are certified on an independent basis
Programs endorsed by Green-e Climate
Green-e Climate endorses a number of programs. Those may be mentioned as below:
- Green-e Climate Protocol for Renewable Energy
- Gold Standard
- Clean Development Mechanism
- Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) 2007
Important Documents of Green-e Climate
Following are some important documents of Green-e Climate program:
- Green-e Climate Logo Use Agreement
- Appendix D: Green-e Climate Standard
- Appendix A: The Green-e Climate Application Form
- Appendix E: The Green-e Climate Protocol for Renewable Energy
- Appendix B: Green-e Climate Code of Conduct
- Appendix F: The Green-e Climate Protocol for Renewable Energy Program Rules
- Appendix C: Green-e Climate Certification Fee Schedule
- Appendix G: Green-e Climate Third Party Distributor and Web Host Enrollment
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