What we do

Urban Trading has partnered with leading institutions to offer a large source of high-quality emissions reductions to companies wishing to offer carbon offset products and services to their customers or offset their direct emissions.

Through this partnership, Urban Trading aims to drive and support novel ways in which robust offsets can be used and recognized as a meaningful response option to mitigating corporate GHG emissions across all sectors and regions.

Our in depth knowledge and understanding of domestic and foreign ‘Green Chip’ markets and, the guidelines set out by the Kyoto protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), allows bespoke solution delivery to our customers.

 

The Kyoto Protocol  treaty was negotiated in December 1997 at the city of Kyoto, Japan and came into force February 16th, 2005.

"The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2% compared to the year 1990 (but note that, compared to the emissions levels that would be expected by 2010 without the Protocol, this target represents a 29% cut). The goal is to lower overall emissions from six greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, HFCs, and PFCs - calculated as an average over the five-year period of 2008-12. National targets range from 8% reductions for the European Union and some others to 7% for the US, 6% for Japan, 0% for Russia, and permitted increases of 8% for Australia and 10% for Iceland."

Text of the Kyoto Protocol | Kyoto Protocol Wiki