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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 environmental assets, and
developing environmental markets for trading and tracking
environmental assets. ERT is a leader in emerging markets
for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading, renewable
energy certificates, energy efficiency credits and nutrient
trading in watersheds.
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ERT is a leader in the field of GHG emissions trading
and operates the GHG Registry®. The ERT GHG Registry® is the
largest online registry in the U.S. voluntary and
pre-compliance carbon markets in terms of tradable
verified emissions reductions (VERs). As of January
1, 2008, the GHG Registry listed 18.5 million tradable
project-based VERs, had facilitated over-the counter
transactions of 2 million metric tons in 2007 alone,
and listed over 348 million metric tons of emissions
reductions under management.
ERT's GHG Registry helps VER buyers and sellers
in the U.S. carbon market to verify, register, and
transform VERs resulting from those projects into
fungible, tradable environmental assets. Our service
offering includes:
- • Greenhouse gas accounting
- • Measurement, reporting and verification protocols
- • Independent validation and verification
- • Asset creation and registry services
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Greenhouse Gas Registry:
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Trading Renewable Energy Certificates:
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