About

Climate Bridge is an international company committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting the implementation of low-carbon technologies around the world. Leveraging global voluntary and compliance carbon markets, Climate Bridge bridges resources and opportunities in the developed and developing worlds, to maximize environmental impact at the lowest possible price.

They develop high-quality emission reduction projects for the carbon markets, and offer financial and technical support to projects that provide measurable social and environmental benefits. In short, they bridge the East with the West to contribute to a greener society.

With offices in China, India, Australia and the United Kingdom, Climate Bridge is a vital link between project owners in developing countries that need capital from carbon credits in order to move forward with their emissions reduction projects, and companies in developed countries that are looking for high-impact, cost-effective ways to offset their emissions. Due to its unique structure and leadership, Climate Bridge offers an unparalleled value proposition to customers both up and down the supply chain.

Upstream, they directly invest the carbon finance required to support emissions-reducing projects. Using their detailed knowledge and understanding of the complex carbon offsetting space, they provide guidance and assistance to help implement, register and sell carbon offsets. Also, by way of knowledge transfer throughout this guidance process, they help to build the capabilities of operators in the developing world to undertake future projects.

Downstream, for offset buyers, they are a reliable, environmentally-conscious counterparty with deep Asian expertise, detailed knowledge of the complex regulatory and technical elements of carbon offsetting, and a comprehensive understanding of the risks and buy-sell dynamics inherent in such projects. This ensures that their customers' carbon offset funds are directed towards the most genuine and "real" emissions reductions projects, with the lowest possible cost and the lowest possible risk.

In summary:

Climate Bridge is one of the leading offset players globally. They have developed 180+ projects to date, representing over 70 million tonnes of emissions reductions. This includes 70+ VCS and Gold Standard VER projects, generating some 4.4 million voluntary credits, and they have clients on four continents.

• Climate Bridge is an offset wholesaler: their clients cut out intermediate retailers by buying directly from them, achieving substantial cost savings and a far closer connection to the underlying projects and the social, economic and environmental benefits that their projects bring to their local communities.
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  They act as a one-stop-shop for their customers’ offsetting needs; they stock credits from a variety of countries and are a major provider of CER credits and offsets certified by the Voluntary Carbon Standard and the Gold Standard. They also stock offsets from a variety of technologies that are already issued.
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  Climate Bridge is not a broker; they have a large team based in Asia that identifies and invests directly in low-carbon projects in developing countries. They implement these projects in-house. This, together with offering multi-media profiles and carbon-neutral site-visits etc, means they bring their clients closer to the actual projects.
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  Their credits have been purchased to offset the emissions of numerous world-famous entities and events, including major international corporations, the Olympics and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

Strategy

Climate Bridge's Carbon Neutrality CB is proud to already be a carbon neutral organisation. Firstly, the company’s environmental footprint has been minimised, through behavioural strategies and corporate policies, energy efficiency initiatives and waste reduction efforts. Examples of initiatives to reduce their footprint include:

- Maximising reliance on public transport for all staff travel, whilst minimising travel by air and car usage.
- Locating their major offices close to convenient public transport services.
- Offering staff a company-funded and tax-efficient "Cycle to Work" scheme
- Installing new shower facilities to encourage our staff to walk, run or cycle to work. (To date, no staff members based in our major hub locations of Shanghai, London and Melbourne travel to or from work by car.)
- Sorting and recycling office-related waste.
- Employing people who share the company's values on environmental sustainability at a personal as well as a corporate level.
- Adopting an expenses policy that explicitly seeks to avoid the consumption of products with a particularly high carbon footprint, such as bottled water.

The company's carbon neutrality has then been completed by offsetting its remaining footprint. To achieve this, Climate Bridge:

- measures and monitors its carbon footprint
- purchases and retires high-quality carbon offsets that both meet the company's own rigorous due diligence requirements, and are certified to the industry-recognised standards (such as VCS, VER+, etc) beyond their own carbon neutrality.

Due to its position as a major financier of emissions-reduction projects, and as a developer and wholesaler of carbon credits, Climate Bridge exists to facilitate the implementation of green technologies and to assist other organisations to achieve their own carbon neutrality through offsetting. In terms of scale, Climate Bridge is one of the leading carbon offset project developers globally, with a portfolio of over 180 projects to date, representing more than 70 million tonnes of emissions reductions. This includes over 70 VCS and Gold Standard VER projects, representing some 4.4 million credits, of which more than 3 million have already been issued.

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