Sustainability

Our Guiding Principles

Carbon Streaming’s mission is to scale high-integrity carbon credit projects to accelerate global climate action and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (the “UN SDGs”), also referred to as the Global Goals, which were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Our business exists to spur and support sustainable climate action and address the impacts of climate change with the goal to reach net-zero. In line with our mission, we work with developers on projects designed to deliver impacts beyond carbon, creating additional value for ecosystems and society.

Our Guiding Principles inform our investment decisions and direct our day-to-day operations:

Accelerate climate action

and seek projects that deliver on the UN SDGs

Respect

the interests, cultures, customs and values of our employees and project communities

Integrate sustainability

in our business and corporate decision-making processes

Apply ethical business practices

as we advance a sound system of corporate governance

Operate with integrity

in dealings with employees, partners, clients, communities, and other stakeholders

Be accountable and transparent

in our activities

We meet these ambitions by forming synergistic Partnerships for the Goals (SDG#17) with project partners that demonstrate success in carbon project development, a connection to community and the environment, and a shared vision to advance a just and low-carbon transition.

Carbon Streaming is a proud participant of the UN Global Compact, a global corporate sustainability initiative designed to educate companies and ensure that the principles of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption are integrated into their strategies and business operations. We plan to submit our first Communication of Progress on the implementation of the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact in calendar year 2023.

We are also proud members of the Green Business Bureau and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. These commitments have allowed us to learn from and contribute to the community while strengthening the quality of our business decisions and commitment to sustainable business practice.

As evidence of that commitment, we have published our first Sustainability Report which can be downloaded below.

2022
Sustainability Report

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Sustainable Impacts of Portfolio

		Project Impact Highlights (UN SDGs)*
Stream	Project Description	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Rimba Raya	One of the world’s first and largest initiatives to protect tropical lowland peat swamp forests in Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia.
Community Carbon (7 Projects)	Portfolio of energy-saving projects, deploying cookstove and water filtration devices. The cookstove projects are located in Mozambique, Uganda and Tanzania and the water filtration projects are located in Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia.
Sustainable Community (2 Projects)	Grouped projects enroll and reward members for GHG emission reductions through waste diversion, conversion and energy efficiency initiatives, with plans to expand into transport in Quebec and Ontario, Canada.
Magdalena Bay Blue Carbon	Blue carbon mangrove forest and associated marine habitat conservation in Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, México.
Nalgonda Rice Farming	Enrolls rice farmers in GHG emissions reductions through sustainable farming techniques improving rice cultivation in the Nalgonda District, Telangana State, India.
Waverly Biochar	Reduction of GHG emissions through establishing and maintaining a thermal wood conversion facility where waste fines and sawdust will be converted into biochar in Virginia, United States.
Enfield Biochar	Reduction of GHG emissions through construction of a pilot pyrolysis facility using PYREG technology converting biomass waste and sawdust into biochar in Maine, USA.
Cerrado Biome	Scale up project to avoid the conversion of native forest and grasslands to commercial agriculture in the Cerrado Biome Brazil.
* When a project is listed as having impacts on specific UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), these represent the UN SDGs a given project(s) contributes or is expected to contribute to.