Creating New Opportunities in Voluntary Carbon Markets

Transitioning to a sustainable and equitable world is one of the greatest challenges humankind has faced. It’s the balance of maintaining and raising human standard of living for all, while reducing waste, loss of biodiversity, and carbon emissions – sustainable development. This requires a complete transformation of how we produce, store, and use energy.  

Carbon markets play an important role. While some companies are required by state or federal regulations to manage their carbon footprints, there is a growing imperative among individuals, municipalities, and corporations to be carbon neutral or to monetize their carbon through voluntary carbon markets.

This exponentially growing world of voluntary carbon markets requires an understanding of carbon accounting, project finance, emission reduction forecasting, monitoring, reporting, verification, and the drivers for the ultimate retirement of credits. This expertise of multi-disciplinary teams is often not available in-house.

EcoEngineers helps companies navigate the quickly evolving carbon economy. Our goal is to propel organizations towards decarbonization by simplifying the market access process for projects that improve our climate.

Our team identifies, assesses, and develops projects in the voluntary and compliance carbon markets. We have experience across multiple industries – from innovative, international start-ups creating carbon-removal projects, to large-scale global energy companies developing projects to mitigate their carbon footprint or generate new streams of revenue.

Our services include:

  • Strategic advisory services
  • Carbon literacy training
  • Investment due diligence
  • Feasibility studies
  • GHG project development
  • GHG project registration
  • Methodology development
  • White papers
  • GHG accounting
  • Offset purchase vetting

We carefully evaluate all projects to ensure they meet industry standards and establish pathways to voluntary markets. Using a creative and unbiased approach, EcoEngineers determines a project’s viability and develops cutting-edge methodologies to ensure it benefits the environment.

Our comprehensive socio-environmental assessments help you meet the highest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, with complete Life-cycle Analysis (LCA); verification and validation of low carbon fuel purchases; greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories; carbon offset project claims; measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) protocols; audits; and carbon registry requirements.

We are the incubator for climate action.

EcoEngineers is working with some of the industry’s leading companies on innovative project around the world to reduce emission, remove carbon and avoid carbon in a plethora of diverse areas. Sample projects include:

  • Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BECCS):
    • Ethanol
    • Woody biomass at pellet plant (sawmills, timber operations)
    • Forest waste biomass gasification to CCS
  • Carbon Removals:
    • Biochar
    • Enhanced rock weathering
    • Macroalgae deep sea storage
    • Microbially enhanced inorganic soil carbon sequestration
    • Enhanced rock weathering
    • Biomass storage
    • Ocean alkalinization
    • Ranchland soil carbon
    • Improved forest management
  • Carbon Avoidance:
    • Landfill gas destruction
    • Livestock waste gas
    • Vegetable canning waste gas
    • Avoided deforestation
    • Wildfire avoidance
    • At-home composting
    • High efficiency faucets
    • Waste avoidance in apparel manufacturing
    • Oil pipeline decarbonization
    • Agriforestry
    • Enteric fermentation inhibitor
    • Low carbon steel
    • Clean cookstoves
    • Keeping food in the human food chain

EcoEngineers is partnering with Patch, a climate action technology platform to ensure the integrity of new carbon removal techniques introduced into the carbon marketplace. Link here to learn more.

 

For more information about our voluntary market services, contact:
David LaGreca, Managing Director, VCM | dlagreca@ecoengineers.us

Carbon Literacy

Transitioning to a low-carbon economy is creating new challenges and enormous opportunities for businesses. Emerging climate regulations and carbon markets, along with subsidies and tax credits that assist decarbonization, are creating enormous opportunities for businesses. The key to success is understanding the language of carbon accounting and carbon markets.

This is where Carbon Literacy comes in. EcoEngineers has created a comprehensive Carbon Literacy training program to help you understand and adapt to evolving climate change issues and develop strategies to navigate and benefit from this disruption. 

EcoEngineers’ Carbon Literacy training is designed to bring together internal stakeholders, from the CEO, CFO and Chief Sustainability Officer to operations managers and frontline staff, to develop a shared vocabulary and speak the same language related to the energy transition.

Our program is modular and customizable and will help prepare you and your team to discuss climate change science, measure climate risk, develop adaptation and mitigation strategies, and participate in carbon markets in the context of your business. 

To learn how your organization can benefit from this training, contact EcoUniversity Director Lyndsey Nielsen at lnielsen@ecoengineers.us.

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EcoEngineers’ Take on the CARB Public Workshop from Nov. 9, 2022

On Nov. 9, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) held a public workshop discussing the need for changes to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and introducing initial modeling scenarios aimed at further greenhouse gas reductions by 2030 and 2045.

EcoEngineers President Brad Pleima, P.E., summarizes the workshop announcements in the video above. He emphasizes how the rulings might affect low-carbon fuel producers participating or planning to participate in the LCFS.

CARB is soliciting feedback on its proposed alternatives. Written comments will be accepted on their website, and all feedback must be submitted by Dec. 9, 2022.

If you would like to submit feedback to CARB, EcoEngineers’ Regulatory Engagement Team can assist in these efforts. To learn more, contact us at clientservices@ecoengineers.us.  

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ICYMI with Chelsa: Sustainability Efforts in the NFL

Its fall season, soup season, and (most importantly) football season! Who doesn’t love football? I thought it would be interesting to see what the National Football League is doing to be more sustainable. 

From the NFL: “NFL Green, the league’s environmental program, works to mitigate the environmental impact of the NFL’s major events and create a “green” legacy in each community that hosts Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and the NFL Draft. These objectives are addressed through active partnerships with NFL sponsors, local host committees, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.” Below are ways the NFL is becoming more sustainable.

Food Recovery

The Super Bowl can generate 140,000 pounds of excess food and beverages. The NFL works with local foodbanks to ensure the leftover food and drink is donated.

Material Recovery

Think about how much material is used when having the Super Bowl. Carpet, signs, décor, building materials, etc., all of this material that can be collected and reused is given to various nonprofit groups like Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army, etc.

Recycling and Solid Waste Management

The community will develop initiatives to keep waste out of landfills from the increased waste generated.

Super Bowl E-Waste Event

“Each year, a one-day public E-Waste event is hosted in partnership with the local zoo just before the Super Bowl,” the website says. People in the community can bring e-waste to a drop off, where it is responsibly recycled.

Green Energy

Renewable energy certificates will be purchased to offset the energy usage during the Super Bowl.

Learn More about NFL Green

 

Chelsea Oren

Chelsa Oren is an Account Manager, RNG for EcoEngineers. She has an eye for innovative sustainability projects. Have you seen relevant or innovative news or articles surrounding the Clean Energy Economy? If so, shoot her an email at coren@ecoengineers.us, and she can feature it in the next update. Articles should be evergreen and not specifically tied to a particular publication date.  

ICYMI with Chelsa: Public-Access EV Chargers

According to the Fuels Institute, 70 -80% of EV charging takes place at home. But what happens if you live in an apartment or have no access to garage or driveway? EVSE LLC has addressed this problem by designing an EV charger that is mounted on utility or light pole.   

Light pole-mounted EV chargers. (Source: evsellc.com)

 

EVSE LLC is headquartered in Enfield, Connecticut, and designs and manufactures electric charging stations and equipment for the United States. EVSE has developed a charger that can be attached to a light or utility pole that features a retractable cable. The charger is mounted roughly 10 feet in the air to avoid vandalism.

The user logs in by using the station number or scanning the QR code. Once signed in, the retractable charging cable will be released from the unit. The cable retracts back into the unit after charging is complete. This type of charger makes it easier for EV owners with no access to residential charging. These types of chargers have been installed in California, Massachusetts, and Washington.

These chargers provide a great solution for EV chargers and EV owners who lack the private charging capability at home. Check out the link below for more information!

Learn More about EVSE Chargers

 

Chelsea Oren

 

Chelsa Oren is an Account Manager, RNG for EcoEngineers. She has an eye for innovative sustainability projects. Have you seen relevant or innovative news or articles surrounding the Clean Energy Economy? If so, shoot her an email at coren@ecoengineers.us, and she can feature it in the next update. Articles should be evergreen and not specifically tied to a particular publication date.