About
Oversy was set up in 2011 as a non profit making organization commissioned to verify the authenticity of voluntary carbon offsets and to confirm that the projects used to create these carbon offsets is legitimate. The Oversy certification standard can bring quantifiable and clear benefits to both the environment and the communities that encompass the project location. The standard can be used to verify an array of project types and many geographical settings. Oversy is currently in the process of verifying carbon offsets in a reforestation projects in Zambia. This is a multi-year campaign rebuilding Southern African forests and and thereby creating carbon offsets equivalent to 100 000 tonnes over the next 10 years.
Oversy is also committed to educating people globally about the effects of climate change. As part of this committment, Oversy is proud to be supporting the Clemon Ride for Green Bike Ride in Bangladesh from 11-17th February 2012. The aim of the bike ride is to raise awareness of climate change in Bangladesh and to encourage locals to use green forms of transport wherever possible. This will be the biggest International Cycling Event in Bangladesh with a route including Sylhet, Moulvi Bazar, B'baria, Comilla, Feni, Chittagong, Chakarya, Cox's Bazar with 7 days of cycling covering 40 miles a day.
Strategy
The Oversy objectives are to:
- Enhance environmental integrity by promoting consistency, transparency and credibility in GHG quantification, monitoring, reporting and verification
- Enable organisations to identify and manage GHG-related liabilities, assets and risks
- Create comparable GHG units
- Facilitate the trade of GHG allowances or credits
- Support the design, development and implementation of comparable and consistent GHG schemes or programs.
Our target date for carbon neutrality is 01/01/2012. We are currently working with a company who is involved in reforestation in Zambia.
The strategies developed by Oversy to reducing greenhouse gases are underpinned by its mission statement.
Mission statement:
- To be a leader as a globally recognized body to certify the validity of Internationally produced carbon offset credits.
- To be a global standard in how carbon offset market is regulated.
- To influence governments and policy on the issues related to the environment.
- To become an educational resource on the environment and to secure the future for our descendants.
- To work with other carbon standards organisations to come up with common globally accepted standards in the carbon industry.
- To become an educational resource on the dangers of carbon dioxide emissions and global warming.
Oversy supports the move towards a low carbon economy through encouraging investment in woodland creation in various parts of the world for climate change mitigation. It sets out robust requirements for voluntary carbon sequestration projects that incorporate core principles of good carbon management as part of modern sustainable forest management. Its specific objectives include:
- ensuring high standards of sustainable forest management in line with the standard and climate change guidelines for forestry;
- setting out requirements of good practice in terms of both carbon sequestration and sustainable forest management;
- providing access to forest carbon measurement protocols that enable consistent and rigorous measurement of carbon uptake in woodlands;
- establishing a system of independent quality assurance through the introduction of procedures for registering, validating and verifying woodland carbon projects.
As part of Oversy's committment to educate people about the dangers of greenhouse gases and global warming, Oversy will invite individuals with educational, political, business, environmental and high profile background to become Oversy's Ambassadors to support and promote our work for the good of our global environment.
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