Strategy and Capacity Development

We can assist you in running workshops and fully fledged capacity building programmes on topics including:
  • The basics of sound emission reduction projects and carbon credit development
  • The pitfalls to watch out for when developing projects
  • The art of financing emission reduction projects
  • The future of carbon credit mechanisms such as PoAs, NAMAS and Sectoral Programs.
Our clients in the past included organizations such as the World Bank, UNIDO, GTZ, Point Carbon, French Development Agency, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ecole nationale supérieure des arts et métiers, etc.

If you want to contact South Pole’s expert on capacity development, write to Roman Schibli: r.schibli@southpolecarbon.com

Footprinting Services

Greenhouse gas accounting – or carbon footprinting – allows for the evaluation of an organisation’s impact on climate change by estimating the quantities and assessing the sources of various greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, directly or indirectly connected with the activities of the entity, within its organisational and operational boundaries.

South Pole can monitor and calculate your organisation’s carbon footprint expressed as tons of CO2e (Carbon Dioxide Equivalents) emissions, usually on an annual basis. We propose a wide variety of footprinting workpackages to adjust to our clients’ needs. See our detailed Footprinting Sheet for a list of services offered.

Methodology Development

CDM Additionality Calculation
Market benchmark as defined by the first ever approved CDM methodology that uses a benchmark to prove an emission reduction project's additionality.

South Pole offers you a very specific and unique skill set to develop new methodologies for emission reduction projects or to revise existing methodologies according to your needs. We have been involved in developing and evaluating over 50 new CDM methodologies (large and small-scale). We are proud to having written, together with our partners, the first CDM methodology approved by UNFCCC that uses a benchmark for establishing additionality.

Dr. Christoph Sutter who heads our methodology development team was an elected member of the UNFCCC CDM Executive Board’s Methodology Panel from 2005 to 2008. He brings the experience and knowledge of crucial hard and soft factors that are needed to develop a successful methodology.

Please contact Christoph Sutter: consulting@southpolecarbon.com

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