Climate Protection Projects for Companies - Answers to your most Important Questions

myclimate’s strict quality standards ensure that when you support climate protection projects, it makes a genuine difference. This, in turn, makes it easy for companies to select an effective project that aligns with their values.

Beyond value chain mitigation (BVCM) is a key concept in the battle against the climate crisis. It covers measures that companies undertake to reduce the impact of climate change beyond their own value chains, in particular through climate protection projects. These can be high-quality, certified and measurable climate protection projects that have additional benefits for local people and biodiversity, or transformational activities that drive innovation, advocacy, education and behavioural change. BVCM complements a company’s own emissions reduction efforts and is a critical lever for reaching the climate targets set by the Paris Agreement.

On the myclimate website you can find a large and highly diverse selection of climate protection projects that myclimate supports and co-develops, covering everything from climate-optimised forest management, agroforestry and rewetting of moors in Switzerland, landscape restoration in Ethiopia and climate-friendly rice farming in India. But how does myclimate choose its project ideas from the countless options for climate protection? And what does it take to develop a climate protection project and guide it over a period of years?

"Offsetting" means compensating for carbon dioxide emissions generated in one place by funding equivalent climate-effective reductions in another. This term can, however, create the wrong impression that no emissions are generated at all.

myclimate applies only the strictest independent quality standards when choosing and designing its own climate protection projects. International projects are primarily certified according to Gold Standard and Plan Vivo, and selected projects also according to VCS (incl. CCB and/or SD-VISta) or CSI. Domestic projects are verified according to the "myclimate Guidelines for Domestic Projects" or according to the standards in the respective countries.