Partners
Climate Focus has a wide network of partners that help us maximise our in-country expertise.
We closely collaborate with specialised service providers as well as academic institutions. Our partners include:
Avoided Deforestation Partners, san francisco, usa 
Avoided Deforestation Partners is a unique think tank founded by leaders in carbon policy, forestry, finance and conservation. It recognizes that RED policy must draw on private sector capital to be effective, and that the best way to engage the private sector is through market mechanisms. Avoided Deforestation Partners was formed to explore key issues that need to be addressed to create sound, market based policy solutions to reduce deforestation. The group represents an independent, collaborative effort that welcomes participation and input from all.
www.adpartners.org
Climate Wedge, Helsinki, Finland
Climate Wedge Ltd is an independent carbon management and investment advisory firm providing carbon finance and emissions trading related advisory and asset management services to corporate clients and institutional investors. Climate Wedge focuses on designing and executing carbon-finance investment strategies and vehicles, and helping structure transactions and financing for emissions credits, greenhouse gas reduction projects, and low-carbon technology companies and solutions.
www.climatewedge.com
Easy Carbon, Beijing, China
Easy Carbon Consultancy Co. Ltd. (Easy Carbon) is an independent consultancy in Beijing, China. One of the first local consulting companies specialised in the Clean Development Mechamism (CDM) in China, Easy Carbon assists clients in optimising opportunities and overcoming risks associated with securing and developing CDM projects in China. Easy Carbon provides services to local industries related to each part of the CDM process. They also mobilise other financing opportunities for projects in the renewable energy sector.
www.easy-carbon.com
ERAtech Chile Ltda, Viña del Mar, Chile
Eratech Chile Ltda is a CDM advisory and project development company. It has extensive experience in the area of landfill gas, biomass, and waste wastewater treatment technologies. Eratech offers services from conceptual project design to detailed design, start-up, and operation of projects. Eratech has developed several projects which have achieved CDM registration over the last years and has a widespread network in the Chilean business community. Eratech and Climate Focus have been cooperating in developing and marketing CDM projects since 2005.
www.eco-web.com/register/06029.html
Frisia international business development
Frisia International Business Development is a consulting company based in the South of Brazil. Frisia supports Dutch/European-based companies to start doing business in Brazil. The objective is to construct and maintain stable and profitable business relationships. The activities concentrate in environmental projects (carbon credits, renewable energies), agribusiness (dairy, rapeseed), certification, and ship building.
www.frisia.com.br
Global Public Policy Institute, BERLIN, GERMANY
The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) was founded to foster debate and innovative approaches to global challenges; to form a strategic community that includes representatives from the public sector, civil society as well as business; and to break down the walls between traditional foreign policy (great power politics and international security) and issues such as development, the environment, and health. Charlotte Streck serves as Board Member and has collaborated with GPPi on a number of projects and serves as advisor on issues relating to environmental and energy issues.
www.gppi.net
Lee International, Westbrook, USA
Catherine Lee is a US-based lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in energy and environmental projects. She is the Managing Director of Lee International, which provides advisory services to projects created under the Kyoto Protocol and other emissions trading schemes around the world, with a particular focus on CDM projects. For the past two years she has been primary advisor to a South African waste management company in the development, structuring, and contracting of a landfill gas recovery project in South Africa.
www.go-worldlee.com
Silvestrum
Silvestrum is a small firm of senior partners assisting in the creation of carbon assets in land-use projects for compliance and voluntary markets worldwide, and provides advisory services in the land use and climate sectors, as well as sustainable forest management.
www.silvestrum.com
South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd, Zürich, Switzerland
South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd. sources and developes premium greenhouse gas emission reductions projects. South Pole Ltd. is the successor company of 500 PPM GmbH’s carbon origination business and has offices in Zürich and Bangkok. The company has a special focus on Gold Standard CDM projects.
www.southpolecarbon.com
SustainAsia, Hong Kong, China
SustainAsia is a Hong Kong based consultancy whose mission is to imagine and facilitate clean and sustainable solutions towards long term business objectives, in balance with people’s needs and the environment. SustainAsia provides consultancy and advisory services to investors, industry leaders and high performance businesses willing to assess and mitigate Environmental, Social and Governance risks, as well as implement in depth people’s development and behavioral change strategies. SustainAsia also provides local expertise to companies from the Cleantech and Eco-efficiency sectors, in view of accelerating their market entry into China and SE Asia.
www.sustainasia.com
TerraCarbon
TerraCarbon LLC is a consulting and advisory firm that specialises in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the carbon market. TerraCarbon works with project developers and buyers to develop and transact AFOLU credits within both Kyoto and non-Kyoto markets. TerraCarbon’s project expertise includes: afforestation/reforestation, reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, forest management, cropland and grassland management, peatland management, non-renewable biomass, and bioenergy.
www.terracarbon.com
Vertis Environmental Finance, Budapest, Hungary
Vertis Environmental Finance is an investment and financial advisory firm specialising in emissions trading and environmental markets. Headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, Vertis has regional offices in the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine.Vertis combines Kyoto Protocol, financial structuring, government relations and technology expertise, with carbon market and local understanding, to secure and maximise the carbon value for its clients and projects. Vertis has concentrated on emissions trading in Central and Eastern Europe since 2001 and was one of the first companies to execute Joint Implementation transactions, broker deals in the European Union Emission Trading Scheme, and sell VERs in this region. In addition to its project-based activities, Vertis runs the euets.com spot CO2 exchange, a member of the Climex Alliance.
www.vertisfinance.com