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Carbon finance is a powerful incentive to improve the treatment of waste methane globally. As organic waste decomposes, it produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. Although existing technologies to capture, flare and even use methane from landfills are available and comparatively cheap, most developing countries do not regulate methane emissions or lack the incentive mechanisms to promote relevant technologies.

Income from carbon credits makes a decisive difference in the economics of methane avoidance projects and turns an environmental liability into an economic asset. Often, these projects go hand in hand with improved sanitation, odour control, and air and groundwater protection. With dozens of projects registered under the CDM or in the voluntary markets, the potential for this sector should continues to be significant enough to attract investment in the future.

Climate Focus provides carbon asset development and transaction services for waste projects of all sorts, assisting buyers of carbon in the assessment and contracting of opportunities and project developers in all aspects of the carbon market project cycle. Our services include:

• Originating carbon projects
• Assessing feasibility
• Developing project idea notes and project design documents
• Supporting validation, registration and issuance of carbon credits
• Conducting due diligences
• Supporting the contracting emission reductions

 Our recent assignments include:

• Due diligence of a portfolio of palm oil wastewater treatment projects in South East Asia
• Assessment of a portfolio of biogas digesters for PoA development in China
• Feasibility study for a landfill gas project in Kiev
• CDM project development of the Chloorkop landfill gas extraction project
• Transaction of carbon credits from the Ekurhuleni landfill gas extraction project
• Assistance in the development of a new small-scale methodology for animal manure treatment
• Development of a tool to calculate carbon credits from large-scale biogas digesters