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Certified Emission Reduction
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Certified Emission Reduction
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Email: info@CertifiedEmissionReduction.com

Tel. (512) 772 - 3500

What are Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)?

According to the Kyoto Protocol, a Kyoto Protocol unit equal to 1 metric tonne of CO 2 equivalent.

A CER is issued for emission reductions from CDM project activities. Two special types of CERs called temporary certified emission reduction (tCERs) and long-term certified emission reductions (lCERs) are issued for emission removals from forestation and reforestation CDM projects.

About Us

We assist our customers with reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and in the creation if the respective greenhouse gas emissions credits, such as a Certified Emission Reduction credit, and in selling these CERs in the market that generates the highest returns for our clients.

Our commercial and industrial clients profit from our recommendations and strategies for helping them reduce their carbon emissions, carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gas emissions. Even after the sale and solutions we implement, we keep our clients informed of current laws and pending legislation relating to climate change, global warming and how they can prepare for Cap and Trade. See our website at: www.CapAndTrade.net for more information on Cap and Trade issues, pending legislation and preparing for federal laws and compliance.

Our clients benefit from our extensive experience and knowledge of issues relating to renewable energy, environmental and sustainability issues as well as implementing real world solutions that accomplish our client's goals and objectives.

We provide products, consulting services, information, education and solutions for reducing:

No company is better prepared to help their clients in meeting these legal and environmental challenges with proven solutions that help save money through significantly lower energy expenses while simultaneously reducing or eliminating their Greenhouse Gas Emissions, or eliminating them entirely, than us!

We are the pioneers of "Carbon Free Energy," "Pollution Free Power" and "Clean Power Generation" strategies and solutions that can completely eliminate your company's Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Our solutions and strategies provide our customers with an integrated approach to today's climate challenges with real world solutions that solve these problems, while reducing energy expenses.

We are committed to assisting our clients meet their economic, energy and environmental goals by delivering low-cost reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through our renewable energy solutions.

We are specialists in customized solutions for our clients that include a number of proprietary technologies and strategies that not only reduce or eliminate our client's greenhouse gas emissions - but many times, also reduce their energy expenses. Our unique and proprietary solutions may feature a combination of Demand Side Management solutions that also integrates our trigeneration plants. One of our senior management team members has over 20 years experience in trigeneration power plant development. Our trigeneration power plants operate at about 300% greater efficiency than the typical "central" power plants. When our trigeneration plants are fueled with one of our "carbon neutral" renewable fuels, such as; B100 Biodiesel, Biomethane, Dimethyl Ether, Solar or Synthesis Gas, our trigeneration plants are certified as "carbon neutral" energy systems by the Renewable Energy Institute.

We use our own in-house experience and capital along with that of the Renewable Energy Institute to develop projects from conception through to implementation. For qualified clients, we will own, operate and maintain our onsite energy system under an Energy Services Agreement. We work in partnership with our client companies and governments to deliver the optimum solution that reduces our customer's greenhouse gas emissions.

Our institutional shareholders include one of the leading providers of investments in renewable energy projects and greenhouse gas emissions credits providers. Our strengths and leadership in the areas of; Project Development, Engineering, Project Finance and Renewable Energy Technologies separate us from any potential competitor. Together, we believe that these elements differentiate our business and the services that we offer.

Project Development

Our approach is based on finding the optimized engineering and financial solutions for every client. Every client has their own unique energy and greenhouse gas emissions reductions requirements. That's why our team of experts engineers, project finance specialists, renewable energy technicians and climate change experts who work together for determination of the optimized solution for each client.

Our principal finance approach adds enormous value to our customers as many times, our solutions not only reduce or eliminate our client's greenhouse gas emissions, but many times, also reduces their energy expenses. Our company has the additional benefit of having strong institutional partnerships that also provides access to an almost unlimited source of capital when required.

Technologies

Through our subsidiary Renewable Energy Ventures, we provide the solutions our clients are seeking through partnerships or Energy Service Agreements. This approach provides enough flexibility that can be tailored for practically any Fortune 1000 company, and permits us to provide the optimized engineering and financial solution for each client.

Our solutions include:

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Carbon Footprint verification
Sustainability Assessment
Automated Demand Response
Biomass Gasification
Carbon Free Energy
Cogeneration
Demand Side Management
Pollution Free Power
Clean Power Generation
Renewable Energy Technologies
Solar Cogeneration
Solar Trigeneration
Trigeneration

Why Choose Us?

We have proven solutions, products and services that can reduce or completely eliminate your company's Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Our staff and team has the technical expertise, depth of knowledge and affiliations with major universities that are on the cutting edge of research that is developing the solutions the world needs to solve these problems. And, we are taking these university solutions to market with products and services that solve the challenges and problems relating to climate change, fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, we don't see these as problems any longer, but opportunities to help our clients get the jump on their competition, and our solutions are providing our customers with a sustainable, and durable competitive advantage.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does our company receive credit for our early actions at reducing our Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Before taking action independently, companies should first contact us so that we can help them establish a Greenhouse Gas Emissions "inventory" which we can provide as a qualified third-party.

What is the generally accepted format for sustainability reports?

At present, most companies are using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) protocols as this provides for the "triple bottom line" reporting which includes social, economic and environmental performance measurements. We also line to include in our triple bottom line "people, planet and profit."

What are the benefits of verifying our company's Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

1. Satisfies regulatory compliance regulations as well as accounting regulations relating to accuracy in reporting to customers, stockholders and other company stakeholders.

2. Prepare for present and future regulatory compliance - Cap and Trade is coming!

3. Establishes a present-day baseline for receiving future Greenhouse Gas Emissions Credits when your company begins taking action to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

4. Provides a blueprint and strategy for knowing how, where and when to begin reducing your company's Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

We help clients with tax credits when they use renewable energy technologies

Our renewable energy project development expertise has made us a leading authority of helping our clients with Section 45 Tax Credits. Our company and our attorneys are skilled in the areas of renewable energy project finance and tax issues relating to renewable energy projects. We are able to assist our clients in connection with Section 45 tax credit project finance.

Our experience in Section 45 tax credits has helped us structure optimal renewable energy project solutions that match our clients unique economic and tax goals and requirements, which include regulatory constraints and regulatory compliance for most any state.

Section 45 tax credits generate $.021 cents per kwh of electricity produced by the taxpayer and sold to an unrelated person or company. Section 45 tax credits are available for renewable electricity produced from certain renewable energy projects including, closed-loop biomass, open-loop biomass, geothermal power plants, solar energy, small irrigation power, municipal solid waste, and qualified hydro power production, refined coal and wind power generation.

EPA Moves Closer To Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

WASHINGTON — In a major reversal of years of government policy regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency today proposed regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions to combat and reverse global warming and climate change.

"In both magnitude and probability, climate change is an enormous problem" said E.P.A's Administrator Lisa Jackson in their 130 page report on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. "This finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations. Fortunately, it follows [US President Barack H. Obama's] call for a low-carbon economy and strong leadership in Congress on clean energy and climate legislation. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and greenhouse gas pollution problems have a solution, one that will create millions of green jobs and end our country's dependence on foreign oil," according to Jackson.

Jackson said this report found that projected levels of Greenhouse Gas Emissions "endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations." The finding came two years after the Supreme Court ruled the EPA had the authority to regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act.

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What is an "Annex 1 country"?

Annex 1 countries are those developed countries with emission reduction commitments, as defined in the Kyoto Protocol.

What is an Assigned Amount (AA)?

The quantity of greenhouse gases that an Annex I country can release in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol, during the first commitment period of that protocol (2008-12).

What is an Assigned Amount Unit (AAU)?

The "cap" in a "Cap and Trade" program is a limit that is set on the amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions which contributes to global warming and climate change.

The burning of fossil fuels from automobiles, trucks, power plants, manufacturing plants, and others who release large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions (which make up 80% of all greenhouse gas emissions) would have to meet those limits.

The "trade" in "Cap and Trade" creates a market with incentives for companies to reduce pollution, including Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading credits for reducing emissions to other companies that exceed the "cap" limits.

What are Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)?

According to the Kyoto Protocol, a Kyoto Protocol unit equal to 1 metric tonne of CO 2 equivalent. A CER is issued for emission reductions from CDM project activities. Two special types of CERs called temporary certified emission reduction (tCERs) and long-term certified emission reductions (lCERs) are issued for emission removals from forestation and reforestation CDM projects.

What is the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)?

The Clean Development Mechanism is provided by Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol, designed to assist developing countries in achieving sustainable development by permitting industrialized countries to finance projects for reducing greenhouse gas emission in developing countries and receive credit for doing so.

CO2e is the acronym for "Carbon Dioxide Equivalent" which is the unit of measurement used in the Kyoto Protocol.

What is the Compliance Market?

The Compliance Market is the market for emission reductions purchased by organizations with Kyoto targets.

An Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement is a binding purchase agreement signed between buyer (of CERs or ERUs) and seller.

See our website at: www.EmissionReductionPurchaseAgreement.com for more information.

What are Emission Reduction Units (ERUs)?

A unit of emission reductions achieved through a Joint Implementation project. This unit is equal to one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent.

What are Emissions Reductions (ERs)?

Emissions reductions generated by a project that have not undergone a validation/verification process, but are contracted for purchase.

Emissions Trading allows for the transfer of AAUs across international borders or emission allowances between companies covered by a Cap and Trade program. However, it is a general term often used for the three Kyoto mechanisms: JI, CDM and emissions trading.

What is the Emissions Trading Scheme?

The ETS is the largest multi-national, greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in the world and is a main pillar of EU climate policy.

What is the "Enhanced Greenhouse Effect?"

"Enhanced Greenhouse Effect" is another term for Global Warming

What is an ERU?

Emission Reduction Unit.

What is the EU ETS?

European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

What is an EUA?

European Union Allowance.

What is a European Union Allowance (EUA)?

Materialization of the EU ETS quotas, the tradable unit under the EU ETS. One EUA represents the right to emit 1 ton of CO2.

What is the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)

Trading Scheme within the European Union. The first compliance phase is from 2005 to 2007, while the second compliance phase continues from 2008 to 2012.

GWP or Global Warming Potential is the potential of a chemical to cause global warming. Carbon Dioxide Emissions have a GWP of 21.

What a GHG or Greenhouse Gases and Why Do We Need to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Many chemical compounds found in the Earth’s atmosphere act as “greenhouse gases.” These gases allow sunlight to enter the atmosphere freely. When sunlight strikes the Earth’s surface, some of it is reflected back towards space as infrared radiation (heat). Greenhouse gases absorb this infrared radiation and trap the heat in the atmosphere. Over time, the amount of energy sent from the sun to the Earth’s surface should be about the same as the amount of energy radiated back into space, leaving the temperature of the Earth’s surface roughly constant.

Many gases exhibit these “greenhouse” properties. Some of them occur in nature (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide), while others are exclusively human-made (like gases used for aerosols).

JI or "Joint Implementation" is the provision of the Kyoto Protocol that governs project-level emission reduction transactions between between entities located in Annex 1 countries

What is the Kyoto Protocol?

The Kyoto Protocol is an International agreement under which industrialized countries commit to reduce their Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

What are the Non-Annex 1 countries?

Non-Annex 1 countries are those developing countries without emission reduction commitments, as defined in the Kyoto Protocol.

What is a Renewable Energy Credit?

Renewable Energy Credit or Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) - each REC represents the equivalent of one megawatt hour of electricity generation from an accredited renewable energy source.

What is a tCO2e?

One tCO2e is one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent - the unit for measuring carbon dioxide emissions equivalents and calculations.

See our website at: www.CarbonDioxideEmissions.com for more information.

What is the UNFCCC?

The UNFCCC is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was signed in 1992.

What is a Verified Emission Reduction (VER)?

A Verified Emission Reduction is a unit of greenhouse gas emission reduction that has been verified by an independent auditor, but has not yet undergone the procedures and may not yet have met the requirements for verification, certification and issuance of CERs (in the case of the CDM) or ERUs (in the case of JI) under the Kyoto Protocol.

Buyers of VERs assume all carbon-specific policy and regulatory risks (i.e. the risk that the VERs are not ultimately registered as CERs or ERUs). Buyers therefore tend to pay a discounted price for VERs, which takes the inherent regulatory risks into account. VERs are carbon credits which are not certified under the Kyoto Protocol but which can be used to compensate carbon emissions. 1 VER corresponds to one metric tone of CO2 equivalent.

See our website at: www.VerifiedEmissionReduction.com for more information.

What is a VERPA?

A VERPA is a Verified Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement.

What is the Voluntary Market?

The Voluntary market is precisely that, a "voluntary" market for emissions reductions for buyers and sellers of Verified Emission Reductions (VERs), which seek to manage their emission exposure for non-regulatory purposes.