News

Nov

ClimateSeed offsetting platform now online

ClimateSeed, a platform for climate action, was officially launched today at the Global Social Business Summit organized by peace Nobel prize Prof. Yunus’ Grameen. We are glad to be a partner in this enterprise right from the start. ClimateSeed is powered by French bank BNP Paribas and aims at answering today’s sustainable development plus climate change issues. The platform is structured as a Social Business (following Prof. Yunus’ principles) to facilitate the distribution of climate action projects delivering carbon credits, while strongly contributing to the achievement of UN SDGs. The platform is underpinned by a solid post-trade infrastructure to give participants...

Sep

Alternative Nobel Prize for reforestation technique

Congratulations to Tony Rinaudo! The Australian agronomist has won this year’s “Alternative Nobel Prize” for a trailblazing reforestation technique. Since the 1980s, Rinaudo has been developing the so-called FMNR method for reforestation. FMNR stands for Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration. The method uses existing living root fragments of cut trees and makes them grow again. It is mainly used in desert and semi-desert areas in Africa. In the Sahel zone, millions of hectares of land have been restoring vegetation, thereby helping to stop desertification and re-green drylands. The FMNR method is also successfully implemented in our Sodo reforestation project in Ethiopia...

Jul

CO2OL project featured on new platform B Neutral

We gladly announce that the newly launched platform B-Neutral prominently features our Tropical Mix reforestation project. B-Neutral was created by Carbon Trade eXchange (CTX) in London. CTX is the world’s first wholesale exchange platform for carbon credits providing hight quality verified offsets to fund projects mitigating climate change. CTX is an exchange platform for businesses; with B-Neutral it will now start to offer services for individuals as well. For more information read here: https://www.b-neutral.com

May

Gaest.com becomes carbon neutral

We are glad to announce that the booking platform Gaest.com has decided to become carbon neutral with us. Gaest.com is an online community marketplace for discovering, listing and booking unique spaces for meetings, workshops, all kind of events. Starting today, the carbon footprint from every meeting booked on the platform will be offset to support reforestation and forest conservation efforts in Panama. By doing so, Gaest.com underlines its commitment to environmental action. Gaest.com acknowledges that climate change is a challenge every company needs to address and take steps to promote sustainable business. The platform will offset the carbon footprint as...

May

CO2OL at Innovative4Climate event in Frankfurt

Meet our CO2OL team at the conference “Innovative4Climate” from 22-24 May 2018 in Frankfurt. We gladly will talk to you about corporate climate action, carbon pricing and offsetting solutions. If you would like to get in touch please send an email (info@co2ol.de) or call +49 228 96911923 / +49 69 677344814. Innovate4Climate, an international conference, features speeches, panel discussions, workshops and a market place all debating the transition to a low-carbon future. Specialists from governments, businesses, banking, finance and the civil society will discuss issues such as climate finance, sustainable development, carbon pricing and markets. More information: http://www.innovate4climate.com/en/home