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Global Improved Livelihoods Projects

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ABOUT

This curated portfolio contains a variety of carbon offset projects that help improve the daily lives of people around the world. These projects provide access to clean water, improved cookstoves that lower household pollution, and so much more. These projects take place across Asia, Africa, and South America. By supporting this portfolio, you’ll be funding projects like Laos Water Purification, Chad Solar Cooking, Myanmar Cookstoves, Indian Household Biodigesters, Honduras Cookstoves, Heating and Cooking in China, WWF Mamize Firewood-Saving Cookstoves, Water Filtration and Improved Cookstoves in Guatemala, Improved Cookstoves in Mexico, Orb Energy household solar in India, and many more valuable and impactful projects. With this portfolio, you can support multiple projects in countries and communities worldwide.

IMPACT

earth
300,000+
Tons of carbon emissions reduced each year
stove
200,000+
Cookstoves and water purifiers distributed

BENEFITS

  • Reduces pollution in homes cause illness and infant mortality rates to decrease.
  • Helps families gain access to clean water.
  • Decreases deforestation by reducing the amount of wood needed by families to cook or purify water.

PHOTOS

VERIFICATIONS

Gold Standard was established in 2003 to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions featured the highest levels of environmental integrity and also contributed to sustainable development. With the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals, they launched a best practice standard for climate and sustainable development interventions, Gold Standard for the Global Goals, to maximize impact, creating value for people around the world and the planet we share.

Founded in 2005, Verra is a global leader helping tackle the world’s most intractable environmental and social challenges by developing and managing standards that help the private sector, countries, and civil society achieve ambitious sustainable development and climate action goals. Verra’s global standards and frameworks serve as linchpins for channeling finance towards high-impact activities that tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues of our day.

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Economic growth that must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality.

Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone, everywhere.

Sustainably managing forests, combating desertification, halting and reversing land degradation, and halting biodiversity loss.

The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication.

Good health and well-being, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages is essential to sustainable development.

Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

Avoid wasting water and clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in.

Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs.

Empower your customers to shop sustainably today!

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