About us
CarbonFix Standard is a non-profit organisation registered under German law. Its statutory purpose is to foster climate forestation projects. Its main bodies are the secretariat and the technical board, whereas the secretariat focuses on the administration and public relations of the organisation, the technical board continuously ensures the quality of the CarbonFix Standards criteria.
The organisation CarbonFix was founded in 1999 to follow the UN climate
process and promote the potential of climate forestation projects. When
it was foreseeable that the UN mechanism A/R CDM was not fostering
forestation projects in the expected scale, projects started moving to
the voluntary carbon market. To ensure a quality benchmark for this
market new - more practical - rules had to be created.
In 2007, CarbonFix organised a large group of experts to develop
the criteria for the first version of the CarbonFix Standard, which was
thereafter presented at the UN world climate conference in Bali in
December 2007. Since then, the standard has been revised several times based on the
experiences of the project developers and the desires of the carbon
buyers.
