Location: Nanri Island of Putian City, Fujian Province of China
Project type: Wind Energy
Standard: Verified Carbon Standard
Verification/Validation: Det Norske Veritas (DNV) International Climate Change Services 

Environmental Benefits

• Mitigates climate change
• Limits environmental impact of energy production
• No localized water or air pollution

Community Benefits

• Locally sourced, renewable energy
• Development of new technologies
• Clean energy job opportunities
• Stimulates local tourism

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CarbonFree^® Product Certification is a meaningful, transparent way for you to provide environmentally-friendly, carbon neutral products to your customers. By determining a product’s carbon footprint, reducing it where possible and offsetting remaining emissions through our third-party validated carbon reduction projects, you can:

• Differentiate your brand and product
• Increase sales
• Improve customer loyalty
• Strengthen corporate social responsibility & environmental goals

See Our Certified Products

Leading companies are experiencing the benefits of their CarbonFree^® Product Certification. 
Click here to view other CarbonFree Certified Products.

“The CarbonFree Product Certification has had a positive impact on sales and, more importantly in my mind, since the certification we have seen an increase in overall customer retention and satisfaction.”
—Kelsey Marshall, Co-founder, Grounds for Change

Get Started in Three Easy Steps:

The Certification Process

1. We help you conduct a product life-cycle assessment using the CarbonFree^® Product Certification Carbon Footprint Protocol
2. Certify your product(s) CarbonFree
3. Identify ways to reduce your product's footprint
4. Offset the product’s carbon footprint
5. Review life-cycle assessment annually

We provide incentive for companies lowering a product’s carbon footprint by at least 10 percent! 
You may find your own cost savings in the process, while increasing customer satisfaction! 

Carbonfund.org conducted a webinar on the CarbonFree^® Product Certification Program and more are planned. Please contact us for the webinar Powerpoint deck. 

Carbonfund.org supports three types of carbon offset projects; each type plays an important role in the fight against climate change. The projects we support are third-party certified to meet the same high standards that thousands of companies, organizations, and governments rely on to ensure quality environmental protection.

Project Standards Our projects are third-party certified to the highest international standards, and our project portfolio is audited annually and available online. Read more in project standards. Your Carbon, Your Choice™ We know some people prefer renewable energy, while others prefer trees or efficiency. So we figured it’s your carbon, your choice. When you donate, you have the option of selecting your preferred carbon offset type.

carbonfund.org's quality assurance protocol

At Carbonfund.org, we are committed to supporting and providing the highest quality carbon reduction projects. For this purpose, we developed the Carbonfund.org Quality Assurance Protocol which ensures that every project meets or exceeds international certification standards and our additional set of criteria before it qualifies to be a part of our project portfolio.

Third-Parties Make the Quality

Carbonfund.org supports the highest quality carbon reduction projects in the world. Whether it’s heat-trapping methane emissions on a Connecticut dairy farm or protecting Brazilian rainforests from slash and burn deforestation, we ensure our projects meet the highest global standards.

The hallmarks of our quality carbon reduction projects are:

• Third-party certification standards (see below)
• Third-party validation and on-going verification that projects meet those standards
• Third-party annual audit.

Carbonfund.org supports and develops projects from around the world to leading certification standards. We can help your company identify projects adhering to any of the following standards:

Essential Criteria
All carbon offset projects are held to a uniform set of benchmarks to maintain a consistently high level of quality. Our standards, as well as those of leading certification bodies, address these essential criteria for carbon reduction projects:

Real: The quantified greenhouse gas or carbon reductions must represent actual emission reductions. These reductions are based on approved methodologies or protocols which require rigorous monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of the project’s activities.

Additional: Additionality requires the carbon emission reductions to be above and beyond business as usual. This means reductions are additional if they would not have occurred in the absence of the project. Importantly, additionality should be determined by an independent third-party, a requirement for internationally accepted standards. Additionality should not be self-determined and should not be self-defined, as each internationally accepted standard defines it. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency, and most other standards, define additionality as greenhouse gas reductions that must be surplus to regulation and beyond what would have happened in the absence of the project or in a business-as-usual scenario based on a performance standard methodology.

Permanent: Permanence is commonly referred to as the useful life of a project in reducing carbon emissions. Third-party standards such as the Climate Action Reserve, Verified Carbon Standard, Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards, American Carbon Registry and the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism all address and account for permanence. These and other third-party standards also address permanence for forest-based carbon offset projects such as reforestation and avoided deforestation. A project should be independently certified to a standard to ensure permanence and other criteria for real carbon reductions are met.

Verifiable: The greenhouse gas or carbon reductions must result from projects whose performance can be readily and accurately quantified, monitored and verified by independent, third-party auditors.

Leakage: Leakage is the positive or negative impacts of a project on the surrounding area outside the project’s boundary. Carbonfund.org works with projects with the least likelihood of creating negative impacts.

Carbonfund.org’s Additional Qualifying Criteria
In addition to projects being certified to leading international standards, our due diligence process goes even further by looking at additional qualifying criteria to assess projects.  Our Portfolio includes projects that benefit the local environments in which they take place and contribute to the global effort against climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Our review process evaluates projects based on:

Project Location
Climate change is a global concern and we all need to be a part of the solution. By selecting projects across the US, as well as internationally, we are able to facilitate action from different corners of the world.

The geographic location is also an important factor in determining the type of project. For instance, Brazil and Nicaragua have rich tropical rainforests that sequester carbon dioxide, while the US’s Great Plains are ideal for wind projects.

Market Transformation
One of our goals is to make clean-energy affordable and cost less than its dirty counterparts such as coal. Carbonfund.org seeks to work with projects that have the potential to lead to vast market transformation in and around the project's location.  This enables our funding to be leveraged and act as a catalyst for our clean energy future.

Co-Benefits
The additional co-benefits we look for in projects can be categorized as benefits for the environment and social benefits.

Environmental benefits 
In addition to greenhouse gas mitigation or sequestration, many projects provide a range of additional ecosystem services that enhance biodiversity, preserve natural habitats, control erosion, reduce localized air and water pollution, and more.

Social benefits
The projects we select not only benefit the environment but also improve the socio-economic conditions by providing clean energy, creating jobs, technological advancement, opportunities conducive to trade and development of the community as a whole.

An Inspiring Story
Climate change touches all of us and Carbonfund.org supports projects which help in a meaningful way.  We emphasize projects which tell an inspiring story and to which people can relate - whether it is protecting rainforests, restoring croplands back to native forests, or creating jobs for local communities and indigenous people.