We have contributed to international frameworks and national policy on climate change and continue to shape the structure of today’s international carbon market. As market leaders and pioneers, our work is often groundbreaking and as a result, we have many ‘firsts’ and awards to our name.As market leaders our work is often groundbreaking and we have achieved many ‘firsts’ and awards illustrating this.

Awards

• Winner, Sustainable Consultancy of the Year, Sustainable Housing Awards - 2011
• Winner, Energy Savings Initiative of the Year for the Retrofit South East project, Sustainable Housing Awards - 2011
• 7th Place, Best Places to Work, Financial Times - 2009
• Transaction of the Year, Carbon Finance - 2009
• Best Project Developer, Point Carbon - 2007, 2008, 2009
• Best Workplaces United Kingdom, Great Places to Work - 2009
• Deal of the Year, Global Trade Review - 2008
• Top 30 offset provider, ENDS guide to Carbon Offsets - 2008
• Environmental Markets Winner, Energy Business Asia, Gold Award - 2008
• Environmental Markets Winner, Energy Business Asia, Silver Award - 2007
• Transaction of the Year, Carbon Finance - 2007
• Top 50 Best Places to Work, Financial Times - 2006

Credentials

• South East Asia: Formed Joint Venture raising up to US$46.05 million to invest in the emissions to energy market in South East Asia, as well as carbon development and advisory services
• A world first: Our 2.4 million tonne Fuxin project in China was registered as the first coal bed methane project under the CDM in January 2009
• Our Ural Steel project in Russia resulted in a new way to measure greenhouse gas emission reductions, which has been approved by international auditors
• Our carbon portfolio is one of the largest and most diversified in the world
• We designed the first CDM project in Africa, in Uganda, with The World Bank PCF West Nile project
• We completed the world’s largest clean energy transaction under the CDM with our Yangquan CMM (Coal mine methane) project in China. The project is the first of its kind in China for which we contributed to the UN Approved Methodology
• In the UK, we established the largest energy services agreement as part of our Bath Western Riverside sustainable development project
• We were commissioned by the WWF to develop the Gold Standard, which is recognised today as one of the highest standards for developing emission reduction projects
• As world leaders in ecometrics and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions assessment, we have completed over 1,000 emission assessments and have one of largest dedicated teams of analysts in the world
• We helped develop the Plan Vivo Standard, one of the highest standards in the market for voluntary forestry projects
• To date we have developed over 1500 sustainability projects worldwide.