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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 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.

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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