Welcome to Sterling Planet. Since 2000, we’ve helped businesses and individuals reduce their environmental footprints. Now we’re offering something new: carbon offsets from a new greenhouse gas reduction project included on CarbonOffsetList.org, the Environmental Defense Fund’s guide to credible, high-quality carbon offset projects. To make the list, the project passed an expert panel’s screening using the Environmental Defense Fund’s stringent criteria
for quality.

These premium carbon offsets are from the Greenville County Landfill Gas Utilization Project in South Carolina. This project was developed in accordance with the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS), a robust global benchmark that guarantees project integrity and environmental value. These offsets are also unique in that they come from a U.S.-based methane project that earned Green-e Climate certification.

When you buy these offsets, you can be confident they are:

Real. Offsets represent actual emission reductions that have occurred. Each offset represents one metric ton of reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Additional. Offsets go beyond what would have happened anyway or in a business- as-usual scenario. Developers of the Greenville County project used approved methodologies in keeping with the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.

Permanent. Offsets are permanent, backed by guarantees and fully retired once sold to prevent double counting.

Verifiable. Emission reductions from this approved project are precisely measured, tracked and recorded. Green-e Climate upholds consumer protection and environmental integrity standards.

Greenville County Landfill Gas Utilization Project

Location: Greer, SC
Start date: 2007
Project certification:
Voluntary Carbon Standard
Carbon offsets certification:
Green-e Climate

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