Africa Carbon Credits Initiative

What is a Carbon Credit?

A carbon credit is a tradable good representing one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) that has been reduced or removed from the atmosphere.
Carbon credits are typically divided into two categories:
those that avoid emissions (e.g., avoided deforestation, renewable energy, and energy efficiency) and
those that remove emissions (e.g., reforestation and afforestation, engineered carbon dioxide removal), although some nature-based climate solutions may both avoid and remove emissions.
Carbon credits are traded primarily on the voluntary carbon market, although they can sometimes be used in the context of compliance market (government-regulated markets driven by enforceable caps on greenhouse gas emissions).
The term “carbon offset” is often used interchangeably with “carbon credit,” however, “offset” suggests the purchase of this good as an alternative to reducing one’s own emissions.

SB Power Africa – The Africa Carbon Credits Initiative

SB Power is an innovation-driven Green Climate & Solar Solutions company.
We provide our clients with a Single Point of Service for Green Climate Initiatives.
In a defragmented market of services and Climate projects, the ability and capacity to customise and align to client’s initiatives. They are key to our full services value chain.
Customisable and modular solutions for projects and clients across various industry sectors and African countries are offered.
Finance options can be explored through SB Power’s strategic associates. Including 2 major banks in South Africa that work with an accredited partner to SBP.
We service the entire South Africa, the SADC region, East Africa, West Africa and other countries in Africa.
SB Power contributes to businesses and organisations by embracing their green climate initiatives, the UN-SDG, and carbon credits development, sales and footprint reduction.
We partner with a selected network of companies to realise sustainable solutions whilst contributing towards the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and Green Climate goals as well as the social-collective delivery of the Paris Climate Accord objectives.

The Carbon Credit Eco System

The Network of partners to SB Power covers all the places of fragmentation, thereby offering a Single Point of Service for Green Climate and Carbon Credits Projects

From Project Development to Quantification to Qualification to Verification to Certification to Registration to Pre-Listing, Listing, Post-Listing and Traders + Buyers

SBP aims to pre-finance/ pre-fund the Pre-Listing Process where clients do not have funds to start the process.

Such Pre-Finance takes time to confirm in terms of availability and accessibility of pre-funding from its partners. Risk/Reward Principle applied to Fee Structures

SBP has a network that consists of International Carbon Credit Buyers, Traders and additional trading platforms to assist the Africa Carbon Credits Success in Funding Realisation.

SBP governs the Africa Carbon Credit Project Development by applying the constantly evolving best practices to provide assurance to quality and credibility of the carbon credits development with and through its partners.

SB Power’s Full Value Chain of Services

SB Power offers a full portfolio of services to cover the fragmented market of carbon credit.
Offering a single point of solution/ service
The full value chain of Services embraces the Client, carbon credit project development, due diligence, qualification, quantification, certification, registration prelisting, listing, post listing and prelisting buyers/ reservations, digitization & tokenization, Sell/Buy side and associated transactions.
Subsequent Carbon Credit eligible projects can be developed simultaneously or pot the initial listing and realised funding – The Waterfall Approach

1. Project design:
Conduct a feasibility study and select a methodology for quantifying emissions reductions or removals.

2. Registration:
Register the project under an accredited standard. There are four major carbon standards certifying credits in the voluntary carbon market. A project is considered registered once it has been approved by a carbon standard to reduce emissions.

3. Monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV):
A carbon project must undergo various MRV processes to ensure that it is in fact reducing or removing carbon. Monitoring the emissions reductions achieved during the implementation period. For credits registered under one of the four major registries, third-party verifiers must be contracted to ensure the accuracy of these claims.

4. Issuance:
Once the emissions reductions or removals have been verified, a project begins to issue carbon credits, each representing one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e).

5. Transaction:
The carbon credit now goes to market. Carbon credits typically reach buyers through one of three paths:
* via offtake agreements, in which a buyer contracts directly with a
project developer,
* via brokers or other intermediaries, who purchase and resell the
credit, and
* via exchanges, which offer buyers a platform to access a pool of
potential credits.

6. Retirement:
The final buyer of the carbon credit “retires” the carbon credit, meaning that this buyer has claimed the environmental benefit. The credit will be permanently removed from the market and can no longer be transacted.

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