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Taking care of business.

Taking care of the environment As the world gets smaller, environmental issues loom larger. How is your business responding?

SceptreCO2e offers the most sophisticated solutions.

SceptreCO2e understands the mechanics of change, globally and locally. Whatever your business, we’ll help you maximize your environmental offsetting requirements and create a win-win situation for your business– and the environment.

SceptreCO2e is your wake up call. We’ll partner with you and provide you with the right CarbonZero solution.

Companies in the UK are increasingly looking to become green from a marketing perspective and also because of the Carbon Reduction Commitment that came into force in April 2010, many large companies that are responding to this government initiative are forcing their entire supply chain to be CarbonZero.

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SceptreCO2e assists corporate clients and small businesses in this process by offering a complete carbon solution pacakage that enables companies to become CarbonZero.

Our team of expert consultants will provide you with a wide range of opportunities, advice and offer you access to a pool of high quality credits provided by our many participants.

The key goal of SceptreCO2e is to work with organisations to reduce their emissions and offset their residual emissions to become CarbonZero. Carbon reduction normally leads to bottom-line savings to the organisation, and the new CarbonZero status opens up a new marketing angle to demonstrate your environmental credentials.

We can: Calculate your greenhouse gas emissions (your “carbon footprint”) by performing a Greenhouse audit.

Design a programme of internal and external carbon reduction (offsetting).

Greenhouse gas audit

Carbon offsetting

How can you benefit ?

Our assessment staff have all followed the Organisational Greenhouse gas Assessment course set by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. Reports are therefore produced to ISO14064 standards for additional credibility and comparability.

Carbon offsetting is the practice of counteracting emissions through a carbon-saving project in order to balance out emissions from a given source. For example, it is possible to calculate the emissions associated with the travel in an organisation and ‘offset’ them by investing in a project that saves an equivalent amount of carbon such that the impact of that activity is ‘net zero’ by investing in emissions offsets.

Environmental credits are only as valuable as you make them. At SceptreCO2e, we’ll help you maximize your opportunities every step of the way.

Once this is complete , we can begin to design a programme of internal and external carbon reduction (offsetting).

The purchased offsets are ‘retired’ and taken out of circulation. When the offsets come from projects, the money you pay goes to a local community or business to help fund more environmentally-friendly (and lower emission) development options which can include new technology. The projects often have direct benefits to the local community.

“Becoming a member of the CarbonZero Federation opens up the potential to work with like-minded businesses” www.sceptreco2e.com

Going CarbonZero provides your business with an edge in a competitive market, allowing you to communicate your new status with the CarbonZero logo on your website, brochures and other marketing material.

Each client has their own section on the website, which has an overview of the company, as well as contact details and their logo. The client has control of the wording within their section, and is free to amend as they wish. When companies go CarbonZero or offset a product or service, they automatically join the CarbonZero Federation.

The costs of going CarbonZero are dependent on the size of your carbon footprint; the bigger the footprint, the greater the cost, which is a good incentive to minimise emissions as well as offset.

Most clients are pleasantly surprised by the costs involved.

SceptreCO2e’s offset projects inventory are unique for the following reasons: 1 Our investor participants invest in the most sought after credits on a forward contract basis which are then held in a registry ready for your business to retire against when you need them. - in short off setters will benefit from the liquidity provided by our many participants.

More so, this means that without this funding the project would not have been carried out, thus ensuring full additionality.

Our unique way of funding means that our investors provide the inventory for your business to offset against use in future years.

2 The second 50% of our portfolio consists of issued carbon offset credits from projects through other developing parts of world (VERs and CERs).

3 This means that there are no concerns in sourcing the most sought after credits year in year out.

4 As your business adapts to the worldwide trend toward lower discharge levels, SceptreCO2e can help you acquire and bank environmental assets for future use. We can also help you develop a national or global environmental asset management strategy.

5 All credits are recorded in an internationally recognised registry and provides a clear and open audit trail.

“Our unique way of funding projects means that our investors provide the inventory for your business to offset against in future years.”

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What we can do for you Environmental assets are only as valuable as you make them. At SceptreCO2e, we’ll help you maximize your opportunities every step of the way.

After introducing you to the fundamentals of the carbon offsetting markets, we identify your carbon footprint and identify areas to reduce your emissions. We provide pertinent market insight to steer your decisions to what type of credits are most suitable for your business.

Easy access to our registries designed to provide the best communication is key. We will provide your new status with a CarbonZero logo on your website, brochures and other marketing material.

SceptreCO2e can also assist in the preparation and implementation of a press strategy to leverage these benefits with a client’s target audience.

We always go the extra mile, assisting you and your company in the preparation of Greenhouse gas audits and contracts for the purchase of environmental credits. And, if you desire, we will eliminate the risk of rising carbon prices in future years by fixing the prices now and purchasing ahead in a forward contract.

At the end, we’ll ensure transfers of credits are completed in a timely fashion.

“And, if you desire, we will eliminate the risk of rising carbon prices in future years by fixing the prices now and purchasing ahead in a forward contract.”

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Why SceptreCO2e Simply put: our experience, market coverage, first-to-market in Gibraltar, and expertise equals results for you.

We’ve been active since 2008 in climate change investments. Our staff has a combined total of over 15 years of climate change investments experience and provider of CarbonZero business solutions.

We are the first and only carbon management firm in Gibraltar that works with a wide range of organisations and businesses to manage their carbon emissions and offer a complete business to business carbon zero solution.

We also have an impressive list of “firsts” in the carbon offsetting industry. For example, we were one of the first brokers in 2010 to become members of the Carbon Trade Exchange in London.

Our senior staff has spearheaded efforts to evaluate and offer progressive carbon solutions to meet the needs of SME’s and businesses today.

We were the first successful broker to offer co2balance stove project carbon credits to retail carbon investors.

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But we don’t expect you to work with us simply because of our past accomplishments. It’s what we can achieve for you in the future that counts.

When you add our combined experience and accurate analysis of ongoing changes, you have everything necessary to fine-tune your carbon offsetting needs.

SceptreCO2e case study– Energy efficiency stove project SceptreCO2e is an authorised re-seller of the Energy Efficient Stoves Project by co2balance. This supplies local communities in Africa with free energy efficient cooking stoves to replace their traditional open fires.

The energy efficient stoves use approximately 70% less fuel than an open fire, thereby reducing carbon emissions considerably.

In addition to the saving in greenhouse gas emissions, the reduced need for firewood leads to a corresponding reduction in the amount of time spent collecting the fuel.

As the stoves are built locally they also provide employment to the area, and the users of our new technologies also gain considerable co-benefits such as reduced cooking fuel costs and a considerably improved environment from a health and safety perspective.

In addition, the stoves are tagged by GPS, with the coordinates available to a client to show where their investment is on the ground. co2balance have successfully implemented Carbon Management Solutions using carbon offsets generated from the stove project for some of the largest names in business such as: Aviva, BSkyB, Toshiba UK, Toshiba Europe, Gaz De France, Staples Office Supplies, Dixons Stores Group, Mediacom, Hill Dickinson and the BBC.

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“The work carried out by co2balance goes beyond carbon saving. Its triple benefit approach – the environment, the economy and the people – is the correct and only ethical way forward in tackling climate change” Hon Najib Mohamed Balala, Kenyan Tourism Minister

Guaranteeing an ethical carbon offset “Our CarbonZero certification services have been developed to adhere to the highest possible standards, and our commitment to environmental and commercial integrity is evidenced by our 51Percent Gold Standard Pledge.”

Ryan Mellor, Managing Partner, Sceptre International Group Limited

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There are two main accreditation standards for carbon offset projects in the voluntary market, the “Gold Standard” and “Voluntary Carbon Standard”.

SceptreCO2e has undertaken a pledge that by June 2011, 51 percent of its client portfolio should come from the Gold Standard.

It has always been the mission of SceptreCO2e to provide our clients with rigorous, transparent, traceable and credible carbon offsets. The Gold Standard certification provides exactly this.

Our CarbonZero certification services have been developed to adhere to the highest possible standards, and our commitment to environmental and commercial integrity is evidenced by our 51Percent Gold Standard Pledge.

A Project Design Document (PDD) is produced for all SceptreCO2e projects.

This document sets out the project activity, baseline and boundary as well as the projected carbon savings from a project. PDDs are validated externally by an independent accreditation body.

All offsets are registered into a internationally recognised registry, such as the Gold Standard Registry which is supported by NYSE Blue.

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