Find Your Place in the Carbon Market
from $8,800 CAD
Carbon Offsetting is complex — not complicated.
Affirmative will help you to understand your motivations for strategic offset use and then get clear on the nuances. From compliance to voluntary, nature-based to tech-based, avoidances to removals, compensation to contributions, residual emissions, and beyond value chain mitigation. Where do you fit into the ecosystem of offset developers, brokers, or retailers? Knowing the answers to these questions will help you to choose quality offsets that meet your needs. Let’s find a strategic approach that works for you.
Do you know how to use offsets to your advantage?
Choose Quality Offsets
from $14,400 CAD
Let’s take the risk out of your carbon offset use.
Once you’ve determined how and where you want to apply your offsets, Affirmative will help you to decrease the reputational risk of entering carbon marketplaces. Together, we’ll identify, prioritize, and evaluate the offset characteristics that align to (and elevate) both your ESG strategy and your corporate growth strategy. We’ll help you to understand which projects are right for you and how to get the most bang for your buck by teaching you to ask the right questions. That way, you can communicate your offset use in a way that your customers will understand and trust.
Are you using offsets to make a difference?
Carbon Contracts & Costs
From $12,600 CAD
Know how you are paying, and what you are paying for.
There are many different ways to procure carbon credits. Will you hold them, retire them, or trade them? Are you looking for spot purchases, a forward contract, an offtake agreement, or a pre-issuance investment? Affirmative will help you to understand the benefits, the risks, and the timing of the varying procurement strategies. We’ll take a look at all of the factors that affect unit pricing to ensure you are taking an approach that suits your needs.
How will you structure your offset use?
Executive Primer
From $6,200 CAD
Affirmative will help your leaders understand carbon markets — from market trends and leading practices to risks and opportunities. We’ll review the market landscape, the players, project types, strategic uses, and supply/demand factors. We’ll outline how greater scrutiny, trust, transparency, and confidence are created and we’ll answer all of your questions to make sure that your team is allocated the appropriate resources to mitigate emissions.
Market Instrument Governance
From $16,800 CAD
There are many ways to interact with carbon markets — whether you want to optimize your compliance cap-and-trade obligations, decrease carbon taxation, or use internal carbon pricing to incentivize low-emission projects. Affirmative will help you to understand when to use RECs, PPs, VPPAs or to enter into the voluntary carbon market. Together, we’ll establish your corporate accountability and identify triggers for you to enter the market.
Internal Carbon Pricing
Pricing TBD
Initiate a change toward climate-friendly behaviour — Affirmative will help you to identify the appropriate method of pricing your emissions. As regulations change and international tariffs are applied, the profitability of your products, services, and projects will be affected. Estimate the impact of future financial risks and incentivize your low-emissions projects by using a shadow price, implicit pricing, or an internal fee.
Climate Finance
Pricing TBD
Access capital that supports mitigation and adaptation actions — there are public, private, and alternative investment opportunities for projects that specifically address climate change. Whether you are seeking grants, private equity, concessional loans or other incentives, Affirmative will help you to identify and quantify your climate risks and disclosures to ensure transparency and trust for lenders.
Financed Emissions
Pricing TBD
Consider how your dollar enables emissions — all of the money you spend on upstream products and services creates an impact that you can control. Let’s take a look at your supplier’s footprint and see if we can decrease your value chain impacts. Ensure your dollar isn’t financing high-emission practices. We’ll examine your partnerships, your employee savings plans, your business travel & employee commuting, and where we can’t make immediate improvements, Affirmative will help you create a sound transition strategy.
