Deadline: December 31, 2022
Applications are open for the South Pole Carbon Asset Development Programme 2022. There has been an increased interest in carbon credits from corporates and individuals looking to offset their carbon footprint.
Innovative start-ups and companies in sustainable technology and clean energy solutions, community water systems, and those interested in developing carbon credit projects are welcome to apply.
South Pole is the leading global carbon project developer and climate solutions provider. They connect the projects they manage to their broad range of buyers across the globe who are increasingly interested to purchase credits, certificates, and offsets as part of their voluntary corporate climate pledge.
Benefits
Successful ventures in the programme will benefit from, among others:
- Support in development of the project description documentation with relevant annexes and calculations.
- South Pole will contract and work with an independent auditor to get a project validation and certification that confirms that your project complies with the rules of the different standards.
- South Pole will contract and work with an independent auditor for the project verification, meaning the ex-post confirmation that the project has successfully reduced emissions.
- They will manage the project’s carbon credits registry account and issue, transfer and retire the carbon credits.
- They will deliver the carbon credits to their global network of buyers.
- Further support will be offered depending on unique project scenarios.
Eligibility
Innovative start-ups and companies in sustainable technology and clean energy solutions, community water systems, and those interested in developing carbon credit projects are welcome to apply.
- Cookstoves: Have capacity to distribute 8,000 stoves within the first 2 years of the project.
- Community Water Systems: 10,000 houses included in the project, within 500 meters to 1 kilometer from the water point
- Renewable Energy: Minimum 10MW (or bundle different projects within the same country e.g 5MW x 2 = 10MW)
- Biomass: Biogas and Bio-composting made from farming biomass waste – 36,000 tonnes of waste used a year.
- Other technologies welcome to apply.
Application
For more information, visit South Pole.
