Voluntary emission reduction actions allow the entities to take advantage of voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by following certain regulations and standards. This will guarantee the quality of your reductions and ensure that they are credible, tradable, recognizable greenhouse gas and free from material discrepancy.

What is voluntary reduction?

Voluntary emission reductions are those reductions that are not mandated by any law or regulation, but originate from an organization's desire to take active part in climate change mitigation efforts. This may enable the organization to be recognized as a proactive advocate for new technologies and approaches in this area.

What are the Benefits?

The voluntary carbon market is now growing because companies, government bodies, non-governmental organizations, and others that are often not subject to mandatory greenhouse gas regulations wish to:

• Make a quantifiable contribution to GHS emission.

• Increase response options and flexibility of carbon management.
• Enhance public relations.
• Generate goodwill by entering the carbon market.
• Cement strategic interest in specific offset projects manages corporate social responsibility commitments.
• Become carbon neutral and/or sell carbon neutral products and services.

Voluntary Carbon Units are providing companies and institutions with a solution to accelerate the shift towards a low-carbon economy. This is done by channeling funds through voluntary offset programs to low-carbon technologies that directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the production and consumption of energy and from industrial processes

The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) is established to provide a credible and simple set of criteria that provides integrity to the voluntary carbon market. Specifically, the Voluntary Carbon Standard ensures that all voluntary emission reductions meet specific criteria and are independently verified, creating Voluntary Carbon Units.

For further details: http://www.v-c-s.org/

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