Carbon finance cuts project risk

Climate change is a reality. For businesses, greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions have become an opportunity/challenge to reduce financial risks. GHG reductions offer important information and insights for guiding new strategic business models.

Carbon finance is a new instrument which can make a project more attractive. In the transport sector, which contributes to one-third of the world’s carbon emissions, this potential has not been explored sufficiently. The Switzerland-based Grütter Consulting is one of the pioneers in this area and has so far realized 3 out of 4 approved CDM (Clean Development Mechanisms) methodologies and has registered large-scale CDM transport projects.

Carbon finance can be an important, albeit not the only primary contributor, to investment and can contribute towards making the project financially more attractive, less risky and more sustainable not only in environmental but also in economic terms.

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