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What are Impact Units?
Unlike carbon credits, Impact Units specifically track and verify greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions or removals within a company's value chain for accurate Scope 3 emissions reporting.
Proba Impact Units
Using our Proba Standard and methodologies as a guideline, we make sure that the Impact Units we issue on behalf of our customers represent the accurately stated climate impact and the sustainability claims resulting from them. Our focus is always about quality and ensuring integrity.
The Proba Standard ensures the greenhouse gas impact of a climate project is real, additional, independently verified, unique, not counted or claimed already, and doesn't have negative side effects to the environment and community.
Every Proba Impact Unit is unique and traces back to the real world asset representing 1 tonne of CO₂e (1.000 kg) removed, reduced or avoided.
Our industry methodologies provide a systematic set of procedures and criteria used to quantify, monitor, and verify greenhouse gas emissions reductions or removals.
Benefits of Proba Impact Units
Supply Chain Decarbonization
Help your supply chain partners to reduce their Scope 3 emissions.
Share the Investment
Easily transfer Impact Units with your supply chain partners and improve the business case of your sustainability project.
Integrity without Complexity
Ensure trust and integrity with Proba's blockchain-secured, third-party verified insetting service.
Compliance with Global Standards
Align with SBTi guidelines, GHG Protocol and other industry standards.
The Proba Registry manages the ownership and the claims of the Impact Units and supports the required validation and verification workflows. We keep track of the data proving that the sustainability claims are real.
Our system of assurance is built on a foundation of internationally recognized standards, ensuring credibility and reliability:
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ISO 14064 - Greenhouse Gases: This standard is integral to our platform as it provides the framework for quantifying, monitoring, reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals. By adhering to ISO 14064, we ensure that the carbon reduction, removal and avoidance efforts and the resulting Impact Units generated through our Standard and methodologies are accurate, consistent, transparent, and in line with international best practices.
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SBTi, or the Science Based Targets initiative, is a global partnership that provides businesses with a clearly defined path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement goals. It offers a framework for companies to set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets to limit global warming and future-proof business growth.
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GHGP, or the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, is a comprehensive global standardized framework to measure and manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains, and mitigation actions. It provides accounting and reporting standards, sector guidance, calculation tools, and trainings for businesses and governments.
We're eager to assist you in transforming your climate initiatives into tradable Impact Units. By adopting the Proba Standard and our methodologies, you're building a solid foundation for the certification of your sustainability projects, which can help improve the business case significantly.
We welcome any feedback, questions or criticism. We're all ears at hello@proba.earth.
Let's create some greener supply chains!
Our supporters
Proba is supported by amazing people and organizations taking an early bet on our mission to help accelerating the decarbonization of supply chains, by turning climate actions into tradable carbon certificates.
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