Technology-based Reductions
This category covers a wide range of projects that aim to reduce and avoid emissions versus business as usual. Examples include: natural gas leak repairs, destruction of refrigerants that would otherwise be vented to the atmosphere, and capture of methane emitted from landfills.

This project destroys CFC-12, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance that was illegally smuggled into Thailand and seized by customs officials but otherwise had no end-of-life solution.

This project reduces natural gas leaks from a gas distribution network in Bangladesh through the use of an advanced leak detection and repair program that would not be feasible without carbon credit revenue.

This project captures waste CO2 and injects it into concrete during manufacturing, permanently mineralizing the CO2 while simultaneously reducing Portland cement usage. The dual approach both removes CO2 from the atmosphere through permanent sequestration and reduces emissions from cement production.

The Tradewater International Honduras 1.0 project destroyed CFC-12, a refrigerant and potent greenhouse gas privately stored in Honduras that otherwise that otherwise would have leaked into the atmosphere over time.

This project uses waste CO2 as part of the concrete manufacturing process and thereby both stores that CO2 permanently in concrete and further reduces carbon emissions by using less Portland cement as a concrete ingredient.

The Heartland Methane Abatement project plugged six orphaned oil wells in Oklahoma that were emitting methane and lacked any viable financial or regulatory path to be capped without carbon credit revenue.

This project collects landfill gas to generate 2.5MW of electricity at a landfill in southeastern China, avoiding the emission of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere and using the methane to generate power and displace dirtier coal-fired power in the electric grid.
Nature-based Removals
This category typically consists of nature-based projects that remove existing carbon and store it in new plants, trees, or soil — for example, planting trees in an area that has previously been clear cut or restoring plant life to tidal wetlands.

An Improved Forest Management project that combines regeneration practices, reforestation efforts, and silvicultural treatments to enhance forest sustainability and ecosystem integrity, all monitored under FSC guidelines.

The largest restoration project in the world, Delta Blue seeks to restore 225,000 hectares of land through large-scale mangrove restoration on the Indus Delta in Pakistan.
Technology-based Removals
This is a highly diverse category of projects that includes cutting-edge engineered solutions that hold significant promise but are not yet available at scale. Examples include direct air capture technology and storage of carbon through enhanced rock weathering.

The project removes carbon from the atmosphere by burying fire-damaged wood in engineered underground chambers designed to prevent decomposition for over 100 years

Charm collects waste from plants that have captured carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, applies a heating process called pyrolysis that converts the plant waste into bio-oil, and injects that bio oil into deep wells or caverns where it hardens and will be stored permanently instead of being released to the atmosphere as the plants decay.