Project: Pre-Issue Carbon Credits, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil, South America
Invest in a pre-issue Carbon Credit project and protect the Amazon Rainforest.
Following the success of previous 'eco' investment opportunities, Key Universal are working together with Carbon Planet as fundraisers offering an exclusive and exciting venture aimed at preserving a large rainforest space, vital in the world's fight to reduce carbon emissions.
Pre-issue carbon credits are those bought at a lower rate (whilst in the process of accreditation to full, and more valuable Carbon Credit status) than their final resale value.
The primary focus of this investment is not to purchase rainforest 'land' itself, but 'pre-issue carbon credits', the trade of which protects that land by making its preservation as valuable or more than its industrial destruction, offering investors a 50% guaranteed return.
The money from investors purchasing pre-certification carbon credits is used to protect the rainforest space until it gains full Carbon Credit (and thus protected) status. The end result aids both project developers to successfully create a value for their land and allows investors to sell on their Carbon Credits at a higher rate than originally purchased.
Key Summary Points
Project
- first project of 71,000 hectares with further projects in excess of 1 million hectares to follow
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Investment programme to protect this forest
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Pre-issue carbon credits will fund this protection
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Project is in the process of accreditation, which currently takes 18-36 months
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Complete Carbon Credit Certification due
Ethical investing
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The Amazon is experiencing immense deforestation.
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Clients investing at this point help prevent further damage during accreditation process
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Landowners are pressured to sell rainforest land to industry in order to survive
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UN-REDD programme developed by governments, designed to protect the rainforest via global investment
The Investment
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Opportunity for investors to enter an investment only on offer to institutions
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Pre-issue cost of one carbon credit is $1.00, compared to the current market rate of $5.00 (although some organisations have paid approx $8.00)
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Project is underwritten by the accreditation institution
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High minimum returns with guaranteed minimum sale price
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Potentially 2.5 M Carbon Credits Forecast P/A.
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Guaranteed capital return of at least 150%
For more information on this project and others speak to our team.
Partners
REDD is a government-supported organisation dedicated to preserving the rainforest landscape through economic measures, in the form of pre-issue carbon credits.
The REDD organisation compensates, through payment of carbon credits the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. REDD implementation can bring about huge benefits for national emission reductions and local communities, leading the way in the conservation of forests.
Providing financial incentives for forest carbon has the potential to make forest conservation more economically viable. REDD could potentially become one of the first large scale organisations of payments for environmental services (PES) mechanisms.
See what Channel Four have to say about REDD’s plans in the world’s rainforests
Carbon Trade Regulators
UNFCCC
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janiero in 1992.
ICAP
http://www.icapcarbonaction.com/
The International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP), formed in 2007, is a group of countries and regions that support carbon trading and are actively developing or have developed cap-and-trade systems.
UNEP
http://www.unep.org/climatechange/
As the United Nations’ Environment Programme, UNEP is ‘the voice for the environment within the United Nations system’.
IETA
http://www.ieta.org/ieta/www/pages/index.php
The International Emission Trading Association is ‘dedicated to the objectives of the UNFCCC and… establishment of effective market-based trading systems for greenhouse gas emissions by businesses that are demonstrably fair’
