Carbon credit offset certification
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The major carbon registries like UN-CDM, Verra, and Gold Standards currently only issue retirement certificates to their registry’s account holders or to those who purchase carbon offset directly from them. That means non-account holders (those that mainly purchased from website brokers, or carbon exchanges) will not receive offset certificates directly from the carbon registry. These purchasers will only receive carbon offset certificates from the website brokers or the exchange. The current offset certification system is as shown below:
Fig. 16: Carbon Offset Certification Practice
A sample of an Offset Certificate issued by a website broker is shown below: