Carbon Market Services

Decarbonate

[ dee-kahr-buh-neyt ]

verb (used with object), de·car·bon·at·ed, de·car·bon·at·ing.

  1. to remove carbon dioxide from…

  • Transition planning and emissions abatement strategies that decrease your carbon footprint.

  • Explore carbon market attributes to prioritize your low emission projects.

  • Explore how to mitigate emissions inside and outside of your product value chain.

Decarbonization

To understand how to decrease your carbon footprint - you have to know where your emissions come from!

Transition Planning

Emissions Reductions

Climate Risk Management

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From $14,200 CAD

Ensure you are ready to robustly and effectively incorporate all climate-related financial risks. Climate risks include the physical risks to operations and infrastructure, as well as transitional risks; such as regulatory changes, operational adaptations, or imposed financial obligations. A solid plan begins with a foundation of accountability. Identify the levers and signals that will trigger you to take action. Create robust governance structures to simplify your workflows.

Do you have oversight of climate-related financial risks?

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From $14,600 CAD

Global net zero commitments require clearly articulated plans for transitioning to a low-carbon future. Affirmative will ensure that you create detailed and high-quality plans so your customers can make better-informed decisions about your products. Together, we’ll develop a creative strategic approach, and ensure you are communicating the path to your goals and targets.

How will you activate net zero solutions?

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From $8,600 CAD

Let’s take a look at your carbon footprint and identify the most cost-effective abatement opportunities. From your procurement and supply chain emissions to your energy usage and the long-term effects of your products; find out how you can decrease your climate impact throughout the lifecycle of your product. Affirmative will empower your team with operational solutions that decrease your emissions and create a more sustainable product.

Do you know where to make the cuts?

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Carbon market ADVISORY SERVICES:

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Executive Primer
Executive Primer

From $6,200 CAD

Affirmative will help your leaders understand carbon markets — from market trends and leading practices to risks and opportunities. We’ll review the market landscape, the players, project types, strategic uses, and supply/demand factors. We’ll outline how greater scrutiny, trust, transparency, and confidence are created and we’ll answer all of your questions to make sure that your team is allocated the appropriate resources to mitigate emissions.

Market Instrument Governance
Market Instrument Governance

From $16,800 CAD

There are many ways to interact with carbon markets — whether you want to optimize your compliance cap-and-trade obligations, decrease carbon taxation, or use internal carbon pricing to incentivize low-emission projects. Affirmative will help you to understand when to use RECs, PPs, VPPAs or to enter into the voluntary carbon market. Together, we’ll establish your corporate accountability and identify triggers for you to enter the market.

Internal Carbon Pricing
Internal Carbon Pricing

Pricing TBD

Initiate a change toward climate-friendly behaviour — Affirmative will help you to identify the appropriate method of pricing your emissions. As regulations change and international tariffs are applied, the profitability of your products, services, and projects will be affected. Estimate the impact of future financial risks and incentivize your low-emissions projects by using a shadow price, implicit pricing, or an internal fee.

Climate Finance
Climate Finance

Pricing TBD

Access capital that supports mitigation and adaptation actions — there are public, private, and alternative investment opportunities for projects that specifically address climate change. Whether you are seeking grants, private equity, concessional loans or other incentives, Affirmative will help you to identify and quantify your climate risks and disclosures to ensure transparency and trust for lenders.

Financed Emissions
Financed Emissions

Pricing TBD

Consider how your dollar enables emissions — all of the money you spend on upstream products and services creates an impact that you can control. Let’s take a look at your supplier’s footprint and see if we can decrease your value chain impacts. Ensure your dollar isn’t financing high-emission practices. We’ll examine your partnerships, your employee savings plans, your business travel & employee commuting, and where we can’t make immediate improvements, Affirmative will help you create a sound transition strategy.

Carbon Offsetting

Affirmative advocates for the use of carbon offsets that possess the following qualities:

  1. Verified — the project must follow an accepted protocol and must be monitored, validated and reported with transparency

  2. Registered — the credits must possess a unique serial number and must be retired upon sale to prevent double counting

  3. Additional — the project would not be feasible or would not exist without the funds generated by credit sales

  4. Permanent — the project continues to remove emissions for an extended period of time (and has appropriate buffers in place)

  5. Measurable — the amount of CO₂e reduced or avoided must be traceable and reported against a known and creditable baseline

  6. No Leakage — the project must not lead to inadvertent harm or allow for an increase of emissions that are created elsewhere

Compliance Market

Since the Paris Agreement, governments are becoming more stringent about how Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are being managed. Companies from high-emitting sectors have limitations to the number of tonnes of CO₂e (allowances) they can create. Once the cap is reached, credits can be traded or purchased or a penalty is paid. Depending on the jurisdiction, registered carbon offsets can be used to decrease emissions that count toward the cap.

voluntary Market

Fortunately, many companies are purchasing carbon offsets to contribute to their overall ESG strategies. The voluntary market is less rigorously regulated and the project types vary widely in type, scale and quality, which has also resulted in price volatility. An historic lack of consistent requirements for offset projects in the voluntary market has marred the reputation of offset use. To ensure that individual projects are well executed, absolute due diligence is required when procuring offsets.

While we anxiously await agreement on how Article 6 of the Paris Agreement will be governed, we can begin to use the voluntary carbon market to create bilateral transactions (between countries) that reduce and remove global emissions and facilitate co-benefits (such as those described by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We recommend using only the highest quality voluntary carbon offsets to (potentially) meet the standards of anticipated, internationally-supervised, compliance trading mechanism.

Affirmative will show you how to choose high-quality carbon offsets that align to your ESG strategy:

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Find Your Place in the Carbon Market
Find Your Place in the Carbon Market

from $8,800 CAD

Carbon Offsetting is complex — not complicated.

Affirmative will help you to understand your motivations for strategic offset use and then get clear on the nuances. From compliance to voluntary, nature-based to tech-based, avoidances to removals, compensation to contributions, residual emissions, and beyond value chain mitigation. Where do you fit into the ecosystem of offset developers, brokers, or retailers? Knowing the answers to these questions will help you to choose quality offsets that meet your needs. Let’s find a strategic approach that works for you.

Do you know how to use offsets to your advantage?

Choose Quality Offsets
Choose Quality Offsets

from $14,400 CAD

Let’s take the risk out of your carbon offset use.

Once you’ve determined how and where you want to apply your offsets, Affirmative will help you to decrease the reputational risk of entering carbon marketplaces. Together, we’ll identify, prioritize, and evaluate the offset characteristics that align to (and elevate) both your ESG strategy and your corporate growth strategy. We’ll help you to understand which projects are right for you and how to get the most bang for your buck by teaching you to ask the right questions. That way, you can communicate your offset use in a way that your customers will understand and trust.

Are you using offsets to make a difference?

Carbon Contracts & Costs
Carbon Contracts & Costs

From $12,600 CAD

Know how you are paying, and what you are paying for.

There are many different ways to procure carbon credits. Will you hold them, retire them, or trade them? Are you looking for spot purchases, a forward contract, an offtake agreement, or a pre-issuance investment? Affirmative will help you to understand the benefits, the risks, and the timing of the varying procurement strategies. We’ll take a look at all of the factors that affect unit pricing to ensure you are taking an approach that suits your needs.

How will you structure your offset use?

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