Pakistani businesses are catching up on the opportunity to participate in the global carbon markets, generating high impact carbon offsets with monetary returns. While global giants like Microsoft, Shell, and Delta Airlines purchase credits to offset their emissions, countries like Pakistan hold the real potential: creating bankable climate projects that can qualify for international carbon markets. Yet most Pakistani businesses spend too much time guessing if their projects are even eligible, or assuming they need expensive international consultants just to get started.
This is the gap Resources Future, a climate advisory firm, is addressing with their exclusive, (invite-only) carbon markets workshop series at its Islamabad office. The workshops are designed for Pakistani corporates and businesses to learn more about setting up carbon market projects and assess its financial viability.
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Over the past few years, Resources Future has worked with several businesses that were already running strong sustainability and offset initiatives. However, many did not know that their projects could qualify for the carbon market. This meant missed opportunities and potential revenue.
The workshops aim to fill this knowledge gap by explaining:
Companies are often too late to register their projects. The reason lies in the concept of additionality. In plain terms, this means that carbon credits only support projects that would not have been commercially viable on their own. For example, if a city wants to convert landfill waste into energy but struggles with high upfront costs, carbon credits help close the funding gap. In other contexts, carbon credits make green initiatives and businesses commercially viable. Resources Future aims to enable companies act at the right time. This workshop series will help participants in identifying eligible projects early, understanding the registration process, and ensuring no opportunity for carbon credits is missed.
Beyond the technical content, the workshops will also serve as a networking platform. Professionals from across industries will be able to exchange ideas, build collaborations, and learn from one another.
“Our goal is to ensure that excellent projects shine through and put Pakistan on the global carbon markets map,” Resources Future’s Carbon Markets Lead, Minha Hanif, expressed in this announcement. “This learning space hopes to break silos and open doors for impactful projects.”
Resources Future has built a strong track record since 2020 and has trained organisations across Pakistan’s public and private sectors to design and implement bankable climate-positive projects.
The team has advised on nature-based solutions, waste management projects and industrial decarbonization projects for large Pakistani corporates. RF markets two flagship products in carbon markets space: i) a low-cost rapid feasibility assessment for businesses to see if a project is viable, and ii) registration and issuance support from the time of account opening to eventual issuance. Its team of technical experts brings global experience of studying the feasibility of diverse carbon credits projects and registering them with leading international carbon standards such as Verra and Gold Standard.
Applications are now open for the Exclusive Carbon Markets Workshop Series. The workshops are free of cost to attend with limited seats and will span two hours each. Interested businesses are encouraged to fill out the short application form shared by Resources Future. Invites will be sent to those whose work is relevant and carry the potential to develop carbon credit projects..
The workshop is ideal for businesses that work in energy, agriculture, manufacturing, textiles, cement, waste-to-energy, and forestry/nature-based solutions which offer a gateway to understanding and leveraging carbon markets.
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