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Harnessing the Power of Markets
to Improve the Global Environment
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Environmental Resources Trust (ERT), a business unit of Winrock International, is a leader in
the field of environmental markets. ERT's goal is to pioneer and harness the power of markets
to improve local, regional, and global environments. ERT specializes in substantiating the
environmental attributes of a project or investment, transforming the benefits into tradable
environmental assets. ERT's carbon technical services include greenhouse gas corporate and
project accounting, independent validation and verification and development of standards and
customized protocols.
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Trusted Solutions
for the
Carbon Market
The American Carbon Registry™ offers trusted solutions to the carbon market and boasts time-tested integrity
in high quality offset registration. Winrock and ERT provide carbon technical services for the Registry. The American
Carbon Registry and ERT joined Winrock International in 2007, expanding the Winrock team of climate change, forestry,
clean energy, agriculture, and carbon market experts.
Founded by ERT in 1997 as the GHG Registry, the American Carbon Registry was the first private voluntary greenhouse
gas (GHG) registry in the U.S. and is now one of the largest and most respected. A host of Fortune 500 companies and
non-profit organizations trust us with their carbon accounting and registry needs. The Registry offers the entire
spectrum of carbon technical services for greenhouse gas accounting, verification, registration, over-the-counter (OTC)
transactions and offset retirement.
The Registry provides an electronic registry system for Members to transparently register serialized offsets, report
their verified corporate GHG inventories ("carbon footprint") as well as record the purchase, sale and retirement of
project-based offsets, branded as Emission Reduction Tons ("ERTs").
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