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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. 

Administration
Technical Board
 

Executive Secretary

vanmidwoudPieter van Midwoud studied forest and nature conservation policy at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). He wrote his master thesis at the Ministry of Agriculture on the credibility of the FLEGT process (on the illegal trade of timber), comparing it with similar cases in the diamond and meat sectors.

He worked for UBS Brinson in Argentina and was a youth representative in the United Nations Forum on Forests during his studies, advocating for education as an important tool for sustainable forest management.

Pieter van Midwoud has been the head of the CarbonFix secretariat since 2007.
 
 
 
 

History of the CarbonFix Standard

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.