Skip Navigation LinkClick here to return to our home pageComposite image depicting various Winrock projects
 Home -> Feature Story

Harnessing the Power of Markets
to Improve the Global Environment


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.

American Carbon Registry
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").
 

American Carbon Registry:

Project Website