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Return to Summary of all ProvidersPrimary activity : Project developerThe Project Developer is the person or organisation that establishes a project, by designing, registering, implementing and monitoring the project for the purposes of creating and selling carbon offsets or other environmental credits and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Price (per tonne CO2e) : AU$0 - AU$20
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Greenhouse Balanced's view on the role of carbon offsets in addressing climate change"The carbon market is an important component of the vision of realising landscape scale envinomental sustainability. This includes not only the issue of climate change but also biodiversity decline, loss of water quality and protection of our land systems.
Greenhouse Balanced / Biolinking Australia are focused on carbon plantings which protect and buffer significant natural vegetation, and which can help to reconnect our fragmented landscape, and our Ecological Credits product is backed with VCSThe VCS Program includes the standard (VCS 2007Is a certification standard for carbon offset projects. It provides a global standard for voluntary GHG emission reduction and removal projects and their validation and verification.) and the Program Guidelines 2007. The VCS Program provides a global standard and criteria for validating, measuring, and monitoring voluntary carbon offsetA carbon offset is an investment in a project or activity that reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequesters carbon from the atmosphere that is used to compensate for GHG emissions from your own activities. For more information see here. projects. For more information, see here. projects from renewable energy and energy efficiencyEnergy efficiency improvements refer to a reduction in the energy used for a given service (heating, lighting, etc.) or level of activity. Such savings are generally achieved by substituting technologically more advanced equipment to produce the same level of end-use services (e.g. lighting, heating, motor drive) with less electricity. offshore.
Our team has been working with carbon and biodiversity since 2001, and have developed many large scale projects which offer significant biodiversity and landscape scale connectivity benefits."
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Role in the Carbon Offset Market[Q1]Project developerMain client base[Q3]Retailers and large users of biodiversity and carbon offsetsOffset Products
Offset Products
Price(s) per tonne[Q17]AU$0 - AU$20
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Offset Quality
Organisation is licensed to provide financial advice (or to be an authorised representative in providing financial advice) in the context of brokerage of carbon commodities[Q23a]Information not providedHow does your organisation calculate the amount and price of carbon offset required by customers?[Q10]- Personal contact from clients with specific needs for type of offsetA carbon offset is an investment in a project or activity that reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequesters carbon from the atmosphere that is used to compensate for GHG emissions from your own activities. For more information see here. and tonnageDo you provide quality assurance or technical documentation on your web site or on request?[Q16]on request
Is your organisation audited by an independent third party for the sale and retirement of offsets and / or RECs?[Q16b] NoDoes your organisation supply National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) or NCOS compliant abatement to customers from 1st July 2010?[Q18] Yes, NCOSThe Commonwealth Government’s National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS) came into effect on 1 July 2010 coinciding with the cessation of the Government’s Greenhouse Friendly™ program. It is intended to ensure that consumers have confidence in the voluntary carbon offset market and the integrity of the carbon offset and carbon neutral products they purchase. It provides guidance to businesses who wish to make their organisation carbon neutral or develop carbon neutral products in a way that achieves emissions reductions, through the purchase and cancellation of eligible carbon offsets. More Information eligible offsetA carbon offset is an investment in a project or activity that reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequesters carbon from the atmosphere that is used to compensate for GHG emissions from your own activities. For more information see here. units
[Q19]What evidence of purchase can customers expect to receive when buying carbon offsets from your organisation?- Certificate for amount of offsetA carbon offset is an investment in a project or activity that reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequesters carbon from the atmosphere that is used to compensate for GHG emissions from your own activities. For more information see here. purchased
- Independent certification and / or third party documentation in relation to the project
- Certificate of Retirement/Acquittal
- Serial numbers to identify offsetA carbon offset is an investment in a project or activity that reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequesters carbon from the atmosphere that is used to compensate for GHG emissions from your own activities. For more information see here. units purchased
- Tax InvoiceWhat documentation is available to customers about the carbon offset project/s as part of the education and quality assurance process?[Q22]- Validation Report – From the Relevant Standard
- Certification Report – From the AuditorsMinimum tonnage required per transaction?[Q23]-
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Resources
Do you provide a carbon footprint calculation service for your customers?[Q12]- NoDo you apply National Greenhouse Accounts Factors full fuel cycle emissions conversion factors to calculate customer emissions?[Q14]- YesOther carbon management services[Q11]- Advisory services
- Emissions reductionA measurable reduction in the level of greenhouse gases being emitted by a country, state, organisation or individual. products and services e.g. sale of energy efficient products
- Project development integrating Carbon and Biodiversity
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Greenhouse Balanced
www.greenhousebalanced.com
0423944526
PO Box 481 Kyneton 3444.Information Submitted by Greenhouse Balanced in October 2011




