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CNaught offers the simplest way to purchase high-integrity carbon credits, with our curated selection of science-backed portfolios. We help companies save time and avoid the complicated project selection process, enabling them to immediately reduce their carbon footprints and their risk of greenwashing–all at competitive prices.
CNaught also offers a carbon credit API for companies that want to programmatically offer carbon-neutral products and services to their customers.
Carbon credits are a critical tool for companies to mitigate the emissions in their value chain that they cannot currently reduce or avoid. But project quality is uneven, the market is opaque, and companies often are unsure what to buy, where to buy it, or how much to pay.
CNaught curates diversified portfolios made up exclusively of credits from projects that are highly rated by independent 3rd party agencies and that pass our internal diligence process. Diversification plus diligence helps you maximize impact while minimizing risk.
Learn more about our diligence and portfolio curation process below.
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A carbon credit is a financial instrument that represents the reduction or removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These credits are issued to projects that reduce or remove greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are universally measured in metric tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions (tCO²e).
According to the Paris Agreement, we need to transition the global economy to net zero by 2050 to avoid the most severe consequences of climate change. While internal decarbonization efforts are crucial, it is not yet financially or technically feasible to transition to a zero carbon economy today. Carbon credits allow you to take immediate responsibility for 100% of your emissions by offering a flexible, cost-effective alternative to bridge the gap between current operations and future emissions reductions.
In addition to providing immediate climate impact, carbon credits deliver business value through brand building, stakeholder alignment, risk mitigation, and more.
CNaught’s internal science team conducts deep project-level diligence to ensure that every project passes our rigorous standards of additionality, quantification accuracy, and durability.
We also closely review third-party due diligence, and we ensure that every project in our portfolio is highly rated by at least one of four independent rating agencies: Calyx Global, Renoster, BeZero, and Sylvera.
In practice, this means that only about 15% of credits available in the voluntary carbon market will meet our due diligence requirements and be eligible for inclusion in our portfolios.
CNaught’s portfolio approach follows Oxford's Principles for Carbon Offsetting, supported by the World Economic Forum. CNaught’s portfolios are made up of four different categories of project types, which build on a paradigm laid out in the Oxford Principles. Consistent with Oxford, we weight our current portfolios toward the highest-impact technologies currently available at scale: the best avoided emissions projects. At the same time, we allocate a meaningful portion of our portfolios toward carbon removal projects with both short and long-term storage because it is critical that carbon removal solutions scale if we are to meet our climate goals. Over time we believe the weight of the portfolio will shift toward removal and longer-term storage as removal solutions scale and global progress on emission reductions also reduces the number of avoided emission projects.
Project integrity is the most critical part of building a high-impact portfolio, so our standard portfolios are made up exclusively of carbon credits that both pass our internal diligence and are highly-rated by independent third parties. In a market where approximately 85% of credits would not pass our diligence screen, we generally can't allow for project selection. However, if you have specific project preferences, we can collaborate to find a solution. Talk to us to learn more.
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CNaught does not issue its own certifications. However, CNaught’s portfolios do meet the carbon credit requirements of a wide range of certifications, from the Climate Pledge to Zero Carbon Building. Different companies may choose different certifications depending on their needs, and we can work with you to meet those requirements.
Once you place your order, the CNaught team “retires” the carbon credits you purchased to ensure that no one else can resell those credits. Once the retirement is completed, you will receive a carbon credit certificate that links to the carbon credit retirement records on third-party registries.
You will also gain access to your internal portfolio dashboard where you can find out detailed information about the projects you support and public storytelling tools that make it easy to share your impact with stakeholders.
CNaught charges a flat rate per tonne and does not take any platform fees or transaction charges. For full details, see our pricing page.
CNaught accepts both credit card and ACH payments. We support invoicing and in-app purchases.
