CNaught Perspectives
Welcome to the May edition of CNaught Perspectives! This month we share updates on a new collaboration with Harvard Business School, a roundup of events the CNaught team attended, a customized travel offset app we’ve developed, and key insights from the voluntary carbon market.?
Company Updates
Collaboration with Harvard Business School (HBS): We are proud to announce that CNaught has built a travel offsetting tool for HBS to enable anyone, whether associated with HBS or not, to mitigate the carbon emissions of their travel using a high-integrity portfolio of carbon credits. Read more about the collaboration with HBS. You can also check out the travel offsetting tool yourself here.?
May Events
??? CNaught CEO Mark Chen attended USGBC-CA’s California Green Building Conference focused on innovative sustainable solutions in the built environment. CNaught was proud to be the official carbon credit partner to mitigate the carbon footprint of the event.
CNaught COO Steve Siger attended GreenBiz’s Circularity 24, the leading conference for professionals building the circular economy. CNaught has partnered with GreenBiz to mitigate the carbon footprint of their four largest conferences and to enable every single attendee to mitigate the carbon emissions associated with travel to the conferences.
Mitigate Remaining Emissions
At both conferences, we were inspired by the innovative solutions leaders across industries are implementing to decarbonize, minimize waste, and accelerate change for greater impact. Yet, even when organizations make every effort to reduce their environmental impact, a carbon footprint remains. CNaught can help mitigate the remaining emissions with high-integrity carbon credit portfolios.?
Let us develop a carbon credit strategy for your organization to offset your carbon footprint. Reach out to us here.?
Upcoming Events
?? The CNaught team will be in New York for GreenBiz’s GreenFin24 conference connecting with leaders in sustainable finance and investing. We’ll be adding to the sustainability of the event by mitigating the carbon footprint of the conference and by enabling attendees to mitigate the carbon emissions associated with their travel using a diversified portfolio of high-integrity carbon credits designed in partnership with Calyx Global.
??? CNaught COO Steve Siger will be in Toronto for Canada Green Building Council’s annual conference. He’ll be hosting an Ask the Expert table at the conference, discussing how organizations can use high-integrity carbon credits to mitigate embodied and operational carbon--including as part of Canada Green Building Council’s ZCB standards.
Heading to New York or Toronto and want to meet our team? Let us know here.
Insights from Our Blog
Creating a Travel Offsetting Tool for Harvard Business School: We announced our collaboration with HBS to build a travel offsetting tool. Read more about how CNaught curated a portfolio and built a travel offsetting tool in collaboration with HBS to meet their rigorous sustainability standards here.
May Product Update: You can now make your events more sustainable with our customized travel offset apps that allow event attendees to easily calculate and offset their travel emissions. Our travel apps, used by organizations like Stanford Law School and GreenBiz, offer real-time impact tracking and a seamless user experience. Read more about our customizable travel offset apps, seamless checkout flow, and improved mobile experience in our May Product Update.
Interested in making your event more sustainable? Reach out to us about building your event a customized travel app here.
Updates from the Carbon Markets
The U.S. government formally recognized that high-integrity carbon credits are a critical tool in global decarbonization efforts. As leaders from The White House, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and USDA wrote in their Joint Policy Statement and Principles, voluntary carbon credits “can and should play a meaningful role in facilitating global greenhouse gas emissions.... reductions and removals.”
This marks a significant moment for the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). We are gratified that the guidance recognizes the promise of the VCM depends on its integrity. We are optimistic that this effort will both further promote integrity in the VCM and encourage other entities to endorse high-integrity carbon credits as an important part of credible climate action Read the full statement from the U.S. government here.?
In addition to the announcement from the U.S. government, there has been a continued push towards improving transparency, reliability, and quality in the VCM. Verra, a major carbon credit registry, recently announced that their program meets the the criteria of the ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principles (CCPs), joining the American Carbon Registry, Gold Standard, and the Climate Action Reserve and exemplifying a collective effort to adopt more universal quality standards.
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