Munich (ots) – The market for voluntary climate commitment by companies and organizations is currently in a state of turmoil. While previously the focus was on the goal of achieving their own climate neutrality, companies and organizations are now looking for alternatives to this concept. So-called contribution requests offer a solution to complement CO2 reductions. ClimatePartner Impact, a wholly owned subsidiary of ClimatePartner, has now firmly integrated these new solution approaches into its range of client services and is publishing a white paper on the subject. The white paper illustrates the importance of calls for contributions to global climate protection and can be accessed here.
- ClimatePartner Impact continues to develop climate protection solutions for companies and defines new, flexible approaches as an alternative to CO2 offsetting.
- With contribution claims, companies can refocus their climate commitment and thus express their contribution to achieving global climate objectives beyond their own value chain.
- As an expert in developing climate protection projects, ClimatePartner Impact actively shapes the market and publishes its white paper “Redefining Corporate Climate Action: Shifting from Offsetting to Contribution Claims in the Voluntary Carbon Market”.
Personalized commitment to the financial climate
To date, companies and organizations have mainly offset emissions from their own business activities that they have failed to reduce directly, ton by ton, with Verified Emission Reductions (VER). The contribution claims approach now allows companies and organizations to contribute to global emissions reductions globally, even beyond the carbon footprint of their own value chain. They can also support countries in the Global South in meeting their emissions reduction targets and contributing to sustainable development.
Depending on the company’s strategic objectives, ClimatePartner Impact defines different approaches: “Tone by tone“,”Money per ton” It is “Money for money“. Contribution claims do not always need to be directly linked to the carbon footprint of the contributing organization. In the white paper, climate protection experts at ClimatePartner Impact present a detailed comparison of the three models, as well as their advantages and disadvantages, thus shaping the Actively involved current market developments.
Financing holistic and long-term projects
“With the contribution claims approach, we offer our customers a flexible offer for their voluntary climate commitment – tailored to their respective business objectives. At the same time, we create the opportunity to develop holistic projects with a positive impact on the local population and the environment “go beyond carbon reduction”, said Robin Stoffers, General Director of ClimatePartner Impact. To this end, ClimatePartner Impact develops its own projects that focus heavily on social and ecological benefits or also promote the development of new and innovative technologies.
Various solution approaches for contribution requests are currently being implemented at project level. Together with ClimatePartner and independent stakeholders, ClimatePartner Impact is working on how innovative approaches can be put into practice as a useful tool in the long term.
ClimatePartner sees the contribution claims approach as an additional component of a holistic climate strategy for companies and organizations, in which the CO2 footprint is first calculated, short- and long-term targets are set, and reduction measures are implemented.
To download the full white paper (written in English): https://www.climatepartner.com/de/immobilien/whitepaper-contribution-claims
About the impact of ClimatePartner
Since October 2022, ClimatePartner and its subsidiary ClimatePartner Impact have been offering new development of high-quality, certified climate protection projects that offer measurable, local added value and take into account social as well as ecological aspects. ClimatePartner Impact’s climate protection projects are subject to strict quality criteria and are developed using the latest methods. With 25 experts in an international team, all areas of project development/management and financing are covered. This means that customers establish a long-term partnership with ClimatePartner Impact to develop their climate protection projects together.
ClimatePartner Impact has an extensive portfolio, with a strong focus on nature-based solutions and social impact projects such as reforestation, regenerative agriculture and efficient stoves. They contribute to regional economic development, improving health, increasing biodiversity and restoring ecosystems. The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as a guide.
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About ClimatePartner
ClimatePartner supports companies in climate protection: With its solution approach consisting of software and consultancy, ClimatePartner supports its customers in actively contributing to climate protection and firmly anchoring it in their strategy. Companies have carbon footprints calculated for themselves or their products, set emission reduction targets, implement reductions, finance climate protection projects and are supported by ClimatePartner until they communicate their climate protection commitment. These five steps can be tracked transparently with the “ClimatePartner Certified” label and the associated Climate ID website. In cases where these requirements cannot yet be met, ClimatePartner offers the opportunity to participate in the financing of certified climate protection projects and to demonstrate this through the “Financial Contribution to Climate” label and the identification tracking established by ClimatePartner .
ClimatePartner was founded in Munich in 2006. More than 500 employees from Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Essen, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Munich (headquarters), Paris, Stockholm, The Hague, Vienna and Zurich support more than 6,000 companies from more than 60 countries.
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