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Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We believe affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy is essential to achieving a more prosperous and sustainable world.We are focused on lowering the carbon intensity in our operations and seeking to grow lower carbon solutions in carbon capture and utilization, hydrogen, offsets and emerging technologies. We aim to help reduce emissions of the essential industries that enable modern society for a better tomorrow.
Learn more at chevron.com/newenergies.
ClimeCo is a global company focused on offering a full range of sustainability advisory and a harmony of industrial and nature-based carbon solutions that not only meet the diverse needs of clients’ climate programs but also offer specialized technical solutions for hard-to-decarbonize industries. From developing methodologies to support GHG reduction innovation to advising on solutions for optimal sustainability impact to reach Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals, ClimeCo is the right partner to help address environmental challenges.
ClimeCo is a leader in developing, transacting, and advising on carbon, plastic, and renewable energy markets. We are passionate about partnering with our clients to develop and support their decarbonization roadmap, including investing in projects that enhance biodiversity, environmental, social, and economic co-benefits, and advance community resiliency. Whether helping to finance these projects or collaborating with local communities, we focus on opportunities to restore our planet and keep our industrial clients open for business. https://climeco.com/
South Pole, recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Social Enterprise, has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006. With its global climate solutions platform, South Pole develops and implements comprehensive strategies that turn climate action into long-term business opportunities for companies, governments and organizations around the world.
South Pole is also a leading project developer, and has provided nearly 1,000 projects in over 50 countries with climate finance to reduce over a gigaton of CO2 emissions, and to provide social benefits to less privileged communities who are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
For more information, visit www.southpole.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
Xpansiv provides the market infrastructure to rapidly scale the world’s energy transition. The company’s main business units include CBL, the largest spot exchange for environmental commodities, including carbon credits and renewable energy certificates; SRECTrade, one of the largest transaction and management firms in the solar renewable energy market, APX, the premier provider of registry infrastructure for energy, power, and environmental markets, Evolution Markets, a leading provider of transaction and advisory services in global carbon, renewable energy, and energy transition markets, and H2OX, a leading spot exchange for Australian water allocations. Xpansiv also provides end-of-day and historical market data and operates the leading multi-registry portfolio management system for environmental commodities. Xpansiv.com
S&P Global Commodity Insights® provides respected benchmarks, perspectives, and solutions for commodity and energy markets, helping customers zoom in on the near term and zoom out for the big picture. By enabling decisions that create sustainable value, we help accelerate progress in the world.
Our coverage of the voluntary and compliance carbon markets brings much-needed transparency and analysis to a growing market, empowering participants to act with the support of a globally recognized brand, methodology, and independent perspective.
Our solutions help you invest and plan with data, mitigate risk, and chart and price your path to net zero with confidence.
To learn more, please visit our website at www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/

Cool Effect is a San Francisco Bay Area 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to reducing carbon emissions around the world. Endorsed by 1% for the Planet, its mission is to educate and then inspire businesses and individuals to take measurable action against climate change by purchasing scientifically verified carbon offsets from the world’s highest quality projects. It returns more than 90% of each donation directly to its project partners and, since its launch at the Paris COP in 2015, has helped projects receive compensation for five million tonnes of emission reductions. Like the Butterfly Effect, The Ripple Effect, and others, a single action can have global impact. To learn more, please visit cooleffect.org or follow Cool Effect on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

MÉXICO₂ is a private company with the mission to accelerate the move to a sustainable, low carbon economy, focused on carbon pricing initiatives. We provide specialist support to businesses and the public sector to help cut carbon emissions, save energy, and build emissions trading instruments. By stimulating low carbon action, we contribute to key goals of lower carbon emissions, the development of low carbon businesses, increased energy security and green job creation.
We are leaders on emerging topics in climate and energy, such as climate auctions to help achieve Nationally Determined Contributions and how to allocate mitigation outcomes between climate finance and carbon markets. By working with both public and private sector clients, we understand the imperatives of each and frame our analysis accordingly. We pride ourselves in communicating economic insights in an actionable manner to policy makers and industrial leaders. MÉXICO₂ is renowned for delivering well-structured, clear, and concise reports and close collaboration with clients.
MÉXICO₂ is committed to continue leading and supporting governments and organizations in promoting and establishing carbon pricing mechanisms, accelerating the move to a sustainable and low carbon economy. We have significant experience in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the Caribbean Region, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vietnam. http://www.mexico2.com.mx/
Verra is a global leader helping to tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges by developing and managing standards that help the private sector, countries, and civil society achieve ambitious sustainable development and climate action goals.
Verra’s global standards and frameworks serve as linchpins for channeling finance towards high-impact activities that tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues of our day. https://verra.org/
ACT is the world’s leading provider of market-based sustainability solutions. Since 2009, ACT has become a trusted brand in high-impact climate projects, green electricity markets, renewable energies and energy efficiency, emission allowances and carbon offsets. With a growing portfolio of over 70 products in 40 plus countries, ACT’s consultants in Amsterdam, Shanghai, New York, Paris and Singapore deliver bespoke solutions backed by unparalleled market knowledge. By shaping environmental markets, ACT enables its partners to pursue sustainable futures.
For more information, please visit www.actcommodities.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

EKI is 14+ years old and a global market leader with deep expertise in the realm of climate change, carbon offset solutions, and carbon asset management. Today the company is present in 16+ countries and has 3000+ clients across 40+ countries worldwide. As of date, EKI has supplied over 180+ million offsets.
Founded in 2008, EKI has been passionately working towards rehabilitating the planet to a future of net-zero carbon emissions. The company offers sustainable solutions for climate change and carbon offsets with global standards like CDM, VCS, Gold Standard, GCC, IREC, TIGR, and others.
The company offers strategic solutions to businesses and organizations globally to achieve their climate ambition. EKI offerings span across Carbon Credit/Asset Management, Carbon Credit Generation, Carbon Credit Supply, Carbon Credit Offsetting, Carbon Footprint Management, Sustainability Audits, as well as Carbon Neutrality and Climate Positive initiatives.
Finite Carbon is a leading developer and supplier of natural climate solutions. We leverage unparalleled expertise in forestry, carbon finance and technology to deliver natural climate solutions that seamlessly align with landowner goals. Finite Carbon holds projects to rigorous, third-party verified standards and works closely with clients to maximize credit value by demonstrating additionality and ensuring project integrity.
Finite Carbon has developed more than 3 million acres of high-quality forest carbon projects in North America and has delivered more than $800 million in revenue since 2009. Finite Carbon continues to drive innovation with integrity and will soon be launching CORE Carbon – a digital platform for connecting smaller landowners with carbon revenue. https://www.finitecarbon.com/
PG&E is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California.
We’ve announced a set of longer-term climate goals to achieve net zero energy and beyond. We’re also committed to partnering with our customers, community organizations, and others to co-create plans towards an equitable and viable clean energy future that leaves no one behind. To learn more, visit www.pge.com/climate.
Carbonof helps capture the value of forest and mangrove conservation and restoration activities carried out by local communities.
We finance and develop carbon capture projects, ensuring transparency, and social and environmental impact, guaranteeing quality carbon offsets.

Earthood was the latest to enter the carbon auditing world in 2014 but fastest to become the biggest one globally within half a decade.
Companies world-over are trusting Earthood as their reliable Validation and Verification Body who can help them achieve their carbon offset and credits from various voluntary and compliance programs.
Earthood has the brightest and highest number of auditors, widely acknowledged for quality services with strict adherence to timelines.
Ecotec’s philosophy has been to develop strong relationships by providing industry leading instrumentation and best in class customer service. It has been our experience, to truly support our customers, we must walk side by side with them in the field. This is a key tenant of any new product development but more importantly from a customer service perspective. We design products for the way you operate to make your job easier and safer.
At our core, we believe that the combination of instrumentation and software can provide durable solutions to reduce our partners’ environmental impact while at the same time increasing efficiencies and profitability within their businesses. Our product development and global culture provides the best available solutions for field-based activities around gas measurement applications.
We design, develop, manufacture, sell and support measurement tools which are accurate, stable, repeatable, and reliable. https://www.ecotecco.com/
First Environment provides technical assistance and assurance services for greenhouse gas reporting or offset projects under most North American compliance or voluntary programs. We assist project developers with emission reduction projects, including producing project description documents, monitoring plans, and offset calculations. We also support public and private organizations in developing greenhouse gas inventories and facility reports.
First Environment is a CARB-accredited verification body for both compliance offset project data reports and MRR GHG emission data reports. We are also an accredited verifier for fuel suppliers reporting under the California and Oregon LCFS programs. First Environment is an ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB)-accredited verifier performing verifications for offset projects under CAR, VCS, and ACR programs.
In addition, First Environment provides diverse climate change consulting services in the areas of climate action planning, vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, life cycle assessment, LCFS technical support, climate litigation support and expert testimony, and green bonds. https://www.firstenvironment.com/
Futurepast helps organizations transition to a low-carbon economy. We quantify carbon intensities of fuels for low carbon fuel standards. We help organizations calculate carbon footprints of product and prepare greenhouse gas emissions inventories. We deliver in-person and online training services and verify greenhouse gas statements. We advise on green financing. https://futurepast.com/
GRAIN Ecosystem is a venture backed business spun out of Schneider Electric for the purpose of helping generate high-quality carbon offset supply, dedicated to stopping global warming and accelerating the decarbonization of the planet through an emphasis on permanent carbon dioxide removals, specifically biochar.
At GRAIN Ecosystem, we believe that by simplifying the process of removing carbon from the earth’s atmosphere, we can empower carbon project developers to make a greater impact. To achieve this, we bring together business and science to address the challenges faced by project developers, certifiers, regulators, investors, and other key players in the market.
Our goal is to make the process of developing carbon offset projects quick, easy, and profitable for everyone involved, essentially as the turbo tax for carbon offsets. By working together and leveraging our expertise and resources, we can help drive the green revolution and create a more sustainable future for all. https://www.grainecosystem.com/
Since 1984, SCS has been a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainability standards and third-party certification, working across the economy in the natural resources, built environment, food and agriculture, consumer products and climate sectors. Partnering with companies, government agencies, NGOs, and stakeholders, we are striving to advance sustainable development goals through independent assessment, the application of sound science, and innovative solutions. Through these services, we are enabling decision-makers and purchasers to make informed decisions, giving innovators a competitive edge, and helping to drive the development of leadership standards to create a framework for continuous improvement. https://www.scsglobalservices.com/
US Biochar Initiative’s mission is to promote biochar in North America for sustainable food security, improved soil fertility, environment, and climate resilience.
USBI fully engages with the scientific, agriculture, and biomass communities to use safe, stable, sustainable biochar through collaboration to learn, educate, inform, demonstrate, and develop markets, policy incentives, and quality standards. https://biochar-us.org/
Viresco Solutions Inc. is an environmental consulting firm that helps our clients strategically navigate the complex and evolving world of sustainability. We are leading experts in developing science-based metrics and solutions that enhance our clients’ social license to operate. We focus our work at the intersection of agriculture, waste, bioenergy, greenhouse gases, sustainable supply chains and natural-climate solutions through our End-to-End Carbon Roadmapping approach.
For more information, please visit: https://www.virescosolutions.com/

In Canada, the shift to a cleaner future is here. Canada is not only helping reduce carbon pollution, it is also fostering incredible scientific breakthroughs, creating the jobs of the future, and sparking an energy revolution. Climate action is now a clear competitive advantage at the business level, at the community level and at the national level. Canada’s recent 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan provides a roadmap to how Canada will meet its enhanced Paris Agreement goals and continue to innovate to build a resilient economy that works for everyone.
