The Climate Trust

Results: For 18 years, The Trust has played an integral role in climate finance. Under the mandate of the Oregon Carbon Dioxide Standard, The Trust has been responsible for acquiring carbon offsets, and selecting and managing pollution reduction projects on behalf of regulated utilities. Since its inception, The Trust has committed $33.2 million to projects that will reduce 5.5 million tons of carbon dioxide across a broad array of sectors. We will deploy $5.5 million to projects in 2016, and then an additional $10 million over 2017 and 2018. With our years experience investing in projects, The Trust is well positioned as an investor and carbon manager. Our success is based on our technical proficiency with offset protocols and emerging carbon market policies, as well as our track record commercializing carbon credits in both the voluntary and compliance markets.

Programs: Carbon asset management. We develop, finance, and oversee a broad portfolio of carbon reduction projects for utilities, corporations, universities, and government agencies. We finance projects that supply greenhouse gas emission reductions based on regulatory requirements and voluntary climate change commitments by organizations. We manage the carbon portfolio from design and start-up through registration and delivery of carbon credits following industry accepted standards. In addition, we focus on piloting new projects that generate measurable climate change and environmental benefits. The trust manages a portfolio of 40 projects, 24 of which are active.

management and financing. In order to arrest the rise in greenhouse gas emissions and to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, the climate trust works to accelerate project implementation, develop financing solutions, and establish a supportive policy environment in the agriculture, biogas and forestry sectors. In 2009, the climate trust formed two organizations, with the national climate trust as the parent organization for the oregon climate trust. The climate trust programs include three categories, namely 1) carbon asset management, 2) climate services, and 3) climate policy and standards.