GERES, as a development agency, was a pioneer in accessing carbon finance.  So it is not by chance, that in 2004 the NGO launched CO2Solidaire, the first French voluntary compensation scheme.

On this page, we wish to give you a certain amount of technical information to make this complex scheme, which co finances development projects in the South, clearer and more understandable.

Before emphasizing the 4 criteria for a project to be eligible for carbon compensation (measurability, verifiability, durability and additional reductions in GHG emissions) some elements have to be in order.