Essentials Basket
The straightforward way to cover your footprint
A mixed avoidance portfolio of clean cooking, safe water and grid renewables, priced for businesses buying carbon credits for the first time.
Essentials is the default choice. It spreads every tonne across four registered avoidance projects on three continents so that no single project, country or technology carries your whole purchase. Clean cooking and safe water deliver the household health and time-saving benefits that SMEs care about reporting, while landfill gas capture and Indian utility-scale solar add cheap, high-volume, well-audited tonnes that keep the blended price low. Everything in here is verified under Verra VCS or Gold Standard and retired in your name.
- Location
- Rwanda, Türkiye, India and Kenya
- Vintages
- 2020-2023
- Projects in basket
- 5
$20.95
per tonne of CO₂e, all in
- Available now
- 25,000 tonnes
- Minimum order
- 1 tonnes
- Fulfilment
- Retired in your name
We retire the credits on the registry and issue your certificate. Prefer to hold the credits yourself? You can choose transfer instead at checkout.
What else these projects do
Contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals 3, 6, 7, 8, 13
Exactly what is in this basket
Every tonne you buy is split across these projects in the proportions shown. Each one links to its public registry listing, so you can verify any of it yourself.
DelAgua Clean Cooking Grouped Project in Rwanda
Part of the Tubeho Neza programme, which gives fuel-efficient improved cookstoves to rural Rwandan households free of charge and is funded entirely by carbon finance. Verra reports the stoves use 71 percent less firewood than the traditional three-stone fire they replace.
30%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 4150
Registry listingBalıkesir Landfill Gas (LFG) Capture and Utilization Project
Captures methane from the Balıkesir Solid Waste Disposal Site and burns it in gas engines to export electricity to the Turkish grid. Installed capacity was 11.312 MWe across eight engines at the last verification, which covered 27 October 2019 to 31 December 2022.
22.5%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 2645
Registry listing140 MW Solar Photovoltaic Project in Rajasthan
A 140 MW solar photovoltaic plant at Bhadla, Jodhpur, exporting to the Indian grid and displacing largely coal-fired generation. Rated BB rather than higher because utility-scale Indian solar is now commercially mainstream, which weakens the additionality case.
17.5%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 1709
Registry listingRenewable Solar Power Project by Mahindra Renewables Private Limited
Grid-connected solar generation in Madhya Pradesh that diversifies the Indian grid mix away from fossil generation. Included as a small, cheap, high-volume sleeve; like other Indian solar it carries weaker additionality than the rest of the basket.
10%
of each tonne
Verra VCS · 2059
Registry listingGS7591 VPA 1 Western Kenya Borehole Rehabilitation Project
Rehabilitates boreholes across Kisumu, Siaya, Homa Bay and Vihiga counties so households no longer need to boil unsafe water over a wood fire. Emission reductions come from the avoided firewood combustion.
20%
of each tonne
Gold Standard · GS7591
Registry listingReady when you are
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