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Join Us for a Webinar with VCMI on Carbon Credit Claims 🌱 We’re partnering with the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) for a special webinar, “A Guide to VCMI: How to Make Credible Carbon Credit Claims,” on September 5th from 16:00 to 17:00 GMT+2. Learn directly from VCMI experts how to integrate VCMI Carbon Integrity Claims into your carbon credit strategy: 🎙 Raffaella Infanti and Henrique Luz Santos from VCMI will explain the VCMI Claims Code of Practice, discuss the importance of VCMI's Demand-Side Guidance, and share insights on how to confidently use carbon credits alongside your decarbonisation efforts. 🎙 Adrian Wons, CEO & Founder of Senken, will focus on practical questions from companies, exploring how to effectively implement VCMI Carbon Integrity Claims in your carbon credit strategy. This is a valuable opportunity to enhance your sustainability efforts with trusted guidance. 🔗 Register through the link below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/euFu3G8P

Proud Moment for Senken! 🌱 We’re honoured to be ranked 3rd among the Top 10 Carbon Removal Marketplaces for 2024 by Carbon Herald! This recognition is a testament to our approach of providing best-in-class, high quality credits that empower businesses to meet their sustainability goals with confidence. Our journey to this achievement has furthermore been driven by our unwavering dedication to transparency, innovation, and impact. Thanks to our incredible partners and clients, we’ve facilitated the removal of over 81,743 tons of carbon, proving that together, we can make a tangible difference. As we continue to evolve and grow, we're more committed than ever to advancing climate solutions while being the most corporate centric and trusted carbon market place globally! We look forward to driving even greater change with all of you by our side. Thank you for being part of our journey!

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Do you want to be a climate-pioneering company? Well, then, you better join the companies buying high-quality carbon credits! Stick with me through this short blog post and use the carousel to fully understand the risks of buying low-quality carbon credits. To set the scene, a study by Ecosystem Marketplace, which analysed transactions reported by over 7,000 companies, showed that those engaged in the carbon market are nearly twice as likely to decarbonise their operations year over year. This definitely defeats the narrative that companies buying carbon credits are buying their way to sustainable statuses. However, for your company to become a climate pioneer, it is essential that you understand carbon credit quality and become effective in communicating the risks of buying lower-quality carbon credits. This is crucial to ensure that the carbon credits you procure effectively offset those hard-to-reduce emissions. The risks of buying low-quality carbon credits clearly point towards the importance of not settling for low-quality and, in some cases, cheaper carbon credits. To begin with, low-quality offsets might not truly benefit the environment and can damage the credibility of a company’s climate and sustainability strategy. Additionally, the costs of procuring carbon credits can accumulate, especially if credits are ineffective in decarbonisation on a global and company level. Navigating the market can be challenging when carbon credits, each claiming to offset or eliminate one metric ton of GHGs, vary in price from as low as $5 per ton to $1,500 per ton. Projects that have sound, science-based practices, use digital Measuring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV), and have a transparent track record of emissions reductions will most certainly price higher for being able to do so. This does not mean all projects selling expensive credits are high quality. To ensure that premium credits deliver a high-quality impact on GHG levels, one needs to add a science-based and robust due diligence layer before purchasing. Partnering with the right players in the carbon markets will not only help save countless resources to identify high-quality credits and put your company one big step closer to becoming a climate pioneer. Thoughts, comments and experiences are welcome in the comments! ⏬

Our very own Adrian Wons sat with Phillip Blumenthal from Code Gaia to discuss pain points and solutions in the carbon markets. Phillip is rather sceptic of the market, but in the end, we agreed that climate financing is important. However, there were a lot of shenanigans in the market, which is why we need heavy due diligence processes.

？🌲 ？Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR) ？🌲 ？ 📣 It's Webinar Day! If you are still wondering why ARR is so highly valued by companies, climate scientists and us at Senken, today's webinar is for you! 👀We will talk with the world's biggest experts about this extremely important carbon removal method. What you can expect: 🎙Madhur Jain, from Varaha will introduce ARR and discuss the characteristics of high-quality removal projects, their co-benefits, and potential challenges from a Global South perspective 🎙Louisiane Guezel, from EcoTree International will walk us through insights and challenges related to ARR implementation in the EU 🎙Tara O'Shea, from PlanetLabs.Earth, a dMRV service provider, will explain how digital Measuring, Reporting, and Verification measures can enhance reporting transparency through satellite imagery Learn more & register for our webinar in the link in comments ⬇️ 🌲 See you at 16:00-17:00 GMT+2 !

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Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR) is one of the most effective VCM methodologies as it ensures carbon sequestration and ecosystem restoration at the same time. Despite being grouped under one single methodology, the ARR carbon removal practices have some differences. Let’s dive into how it works ⬇️ If you want to learn more about ARR, sign up for our webinar “A Buyers Guide to Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation” on the 9th of July (Link in comments). Varaha EcoTree International Planet

This is what WWF wants you to do instead of Carbon Offsetting. 👇 The leading principle for companies taking responsibility for their CO2 footprint has been the so-called "ton-for-ton" method. You buy 1,000 carbon credits for your 1,000 tCO2 footprint. Afterwards, you could say, "I compensated for my carbon footprint". This, done wrong, could lead to optimising for the cheapest credit. That's why WWF Germany and others like Gold Standard are suggesting a different approach: "money-for-ton". Here, you set up a budget pricing in your Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. This budget can be invested into carbon projects along guidelines like Oxford Net Zero. WWF recommends starting with at least 100€/t for your Scope 1 and 2 emissions, which should increase to 219€/t by 2030. From then on, you should include your Scope 3 emissions as well. In their papers, WWF goes into more detail and shows different industry scenarios. I think it's an excellent paper and guideline! I will post the links in the comments.

Join us for our second episode of A Buyers Guide to Carbon Projects on July the 9th at 16:00-17:00 GMT+2. 🌱 In this episode, we are looking into Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR): 🎙Madhur Jain, from Varaha will introduce ARR and discuss the characteristics of high-quality removal projects, their co-benefits, and potential challenges from a Global South perspective 🎙Louisiane Guezel, from EcoTree International will walk us through insights and challenges related to ARR implementation in the EU 🎙Tara O'Shea, from Planet, a dMRV service provider, will explain how digital Measuring, Reporting, and Verification measures can enhance reporting transparency through satellite imagery Learn more & register for our webinar in the link in comments ⬇️