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The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey was originally undertaken in 2008 to establish what the business consumer thought about the voluntary acarbon market and understand the varying views and opinions about the use of carbon offsets as part of a wider, integrated carbon management strategy. Now, one year on, there is still the same underlying impetus that climate change must be addressed, with businesses playing vital and important roles in helping society as a whole in its transition to a low carbon economy.

Highlights of the research, which samplef 280 global, multinational and regional organisations, and 31 carbon companies, included;

- Over three quarters of companies have implemented or have started developing a carbon management strategy

- Two thirds of respondents have already offset their carbon emissions or will consider offsetting in the future

- Environmental benefits (91%) were highlighted as one of the main motivations for interest in carbon offsets, closely followed by carbon neutrality and marketing (89%)

- 72% of participants nominated the US as the most desirable geographic region for purchasing offsets; this may reflect the desire for domestic projects as 56% of the respondents came from North America. Africa and South America were also rated as highly desirable locations for emission reduction projects

- Respondents prefer renewable energy projects above any other project type with solar scoring 92% and wind 86%

“It’s highly encouraging to see this growth in interest from companies taking climate action, despite the doom-and-gloom outlook on the global economy this year,” Matthew Wheeland, Managing Editor of ClimateBiz. “Although there’s still plenty of room for improvement, these survey results show that companies are keeping green issues high on their agendas.”

Lisa Ashford, Global Head of Voluntary & New Markets at EcoSecuties commented, “It is great to see from these survey results that the voluntary carbon market is continuing to gain credibility. What is also significant to note is that renewable energy is undoubtedly still the winner for buyers purchasing carbon offsets, a trend that has continued to gain momentum from the results of last year’s survey.”

The survey received 311 responses from a mix of global, multinational and regional companies covering a diverse range of sectors and industries. It provides significant insight into companies’ perceptions of carbon offset projects and the voluntary carbon market. Support for this research initiative was provided from a number of organisations, which include: 2Degrees, Borealis Offsets, Carbonoffsetsdaily.com, GreenBiz, The Karo Group and Westgate.

To download your free copy of the Carbon Management and Offsetting Survey results 2009, please visit http://www.ecosecurities.com/Standalone/Carbon_Management_and_Offsetting_Trends_Survey_Results_2009/default.aspx

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Notes to Editors:

About EcoSecurities:

EcoSecurities has spent the last 12 years focusing on climate change mitigation activities and is now one of the worlds leading organisations in the business of sourcing, developing and trading emission reductions. EcoSecurities emission reduction portfolio covers a wide range of emission reduction standards (Gold Standard, CDM, VCS etc), technology types and geographical locations. In addition, EcoSecurities provides clients with carbon management services, helping them to understand and deal with an increasingly carbon constrained world.

EcoSecurities has been recognised for a number of industry milestones including:

- The first project developer to become a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

- Development of the first CDM project registered under the Kyoto protocol, NovaGerar Landfill Project in Brazil in 2004

- Structuring of the CDM component of the first project to receive CERs in the world, La Esperanza hydro project in Honduras in 2005

- Received Environmental Finance

Background

The concept of climate change began to attract attention in the 19th Century but it was not until the 1970s did substantial debate occur. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol became the first environmentally focused, global, legally binding document. It has set limits on carbon emissions, officially defined the six greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFC, PFC and SF6) and utilised three mechanisms (Emissions trading, clean development mechanism and joint implementation) to assist the market in financially viable emission reduction schemes. The voluntary carbon market emerged to fulfill the demand from organizations and businesses that wished to reduce their carbon emissions outside and beyond the compliance market.

Many organizations, especially in the US (74%), wish to buy carbon credits from forestry projects. The voluntary carbon market has taken the lead to meet this demand through the development of tools and methodologies for forestry carbon projects. This will permit project developers to certify their projects and sell carbon credits.

Objectives

- To gain a greater understanding of the compliance and voluntary carbon market and in particular the forestry carbon market.

- To develop a tool to assist organizations, businesses and individuals to identify which carbon credit they should purchase.

- To develop a new standard with the best tools available in the market.

Research

The standards analysed are Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standard (CCBS), CarbonFix, Plan Vivo, Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), California Climate Action Reserve (CCAR) and American Carbon Registry (ACR).

The criteria include:

Afforestation/ Reforestation