Better APC
Certified 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Better APC is taking proactive efforts to address global CO2 emissions that result from business activities. Through Offset Climate Certified®, the CO2 emissions resulting from their business activities have been third-party measured, and voluntarily mitigated through verified Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction projects. Since joining Offset Climate Certified®, they have supported the verified reduction of 144 mT of CO2 - to put this in perspective it would take 2,381 tree seedlings TEN YEARS to draw down this much CO2 (US EPA).
Better APC’s measured and meaningful climate action helps accelerate verified CO2 reductions at scale.
1 | Measured
Year measured: 2024
Total measured CO2e emissions: 13.086 metric tonnes
2 | Offset
Year offset: 2024
Offset amount: 14 metric tonnes CO2e (100% of measured emissions)
Offset retirements: Ascend Performance 6 mT | SPLT 2 mT | Escuela de Minas 6 mT
*In addition to offsetting their measured 2024 business emissions, Better APC made USD $5,390 in verified charitable donations to registered 501(c)(3) environmental non-profit organizations, helping to protect wildlife and ecosystems, and drive important policy change towards a lower carbon future.
3 | Reducing
Reduction goals for 2025
Avoid non-essential air travel / Optimize client designs with minimal energy requirements / Partner with and purchase from companies demonstrating transparent environmental and social stewardship / Encourage and support lower carbon employee commuting / Enroll in renewable energy programs where available
4 | Engaging
Engagement goals for 2025
Customers: share certification details and encourage they explore for themselves
Vendors/Partners: educating about commitment to being Offset Climate Certified® and why it’s a priority
Where Better APC supported independently verified CO2 reductions to mitigate their 2024 business emissions:
FLORIDA
The Ascend Performance Phlogiston project uses proprietary technology to enhance voluntary control of N2O (nitrous oxide) emissions in Florida.
Why it’s important: N2O is a byproduct of manufacturing things like first responder uniforms and airbags for cars, and has a global warming potential 265X higher than carbon dioxide.
Standard: Climate Action Reserve UN SDGs: 9, 12, 13
COLORADO
SPLT is an accredited land trust leveraging carbon finance to acquire and preserve shortgrass prairie ecosystems in Colorado.
Why it’s important: avoids land conversion to agriculture / commercial development and provides refuge for native wildlife including the swift fox, ferruginous hawk, burrowing owl, and mountain plover.
Standard: Climate Action Reserve UN SDGs: 13, 15
COLOMBIA
Escuela de Minas is a run-of-river hydroelectric plant lowering the carbon intensity of increasing electricity production in southern Marinilla, Colombia.
Why it’s important: avoids the addition of fossil fuel intensive energy production, and increases the share of renewables as energy demand rises due to economic growth in the region.
Standard: Verra UN SDGs: 4, 7, 8, 13
2023 Details:
Measured: 12.64 mT | Offset 25 mT | Crow Lake 10 | SPLT 5 | Escuela de Minas 10
2022 Details:
Measured 12.78 mT | Offset 25 mT | Crow Lake 10 | SPLT 5 | Salto Pilão 10
2021 Details:
Measured 24.9 mT | Offset 38 mT | Crow Lake 15 | SPLT 10 | Viñales 13
2020 Details:
Measured 28.2 mT | Offset 42 mT | RECs 5 | Afognak 5 | Crow Lake 9 | Viñales 7 | Kariba 9 | Los Santos 7
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