Carbon Registries & Partnerships
GC Trading Alliance
Targray is a partner of the Granular Certificate (GC) Trading Alliance, a collaborative initiative aimed at advancing the decarbonization of global electricity markets through enhanced transparency and accountability in clean energy procurement. Spearheaded by LevelTen Energy in partnership with AES, Constellation, Google, and Microsoft, the GC Alliance hosts a marketplace to trade and manage GCs.
Green-e® certification
Targray is a registered participant in the Green-e Energy renewable energy certification program. Green-e carbon products and solutions undergo a through investigation process ensuring they are sourced from a eligible energy sources (e.g. – wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or low-impact hydropower) that meet international standard criteria.
The Verra Registry
Verra is a global leader helping tackle the world’s environmental and social challenges by developing and managing standards that help the private sector, countries, and civil society achieve ambitious sustainable development and climate action goals. The standards and programs Verra develops and manages are globally applicable and advance action across a wide range of sectors and activities. Programs undergo extensive stakeholder consultation and expert review, and draw from four key components: standard, independent assessment, accounting methodologies, and registry.
Gold Standard
The Gold Standard (GS) is a voluntary carbon offset program focused on progressing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and ensuring that project’s benefit their communities. It can be applied to voluntary offset and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. The GS CDM was launched in 2003 after a two-year consultation with stakeholders, governments, non-governmental organizations, and private sector specialists from over 40 countries. The GS for voluntary offset projects was launched in 2006. The GS project registry – containing all projects implemented through the standard was launched in 2018.
American Carbon Registry (ACR)
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, was founded in 1996 as the first private voluntary greenhouse gas registry in the world. Winrock operates ACR to create confidence in the environmental and scientific integrity of carbon offsets in order to accelerate transformational emission reduction actions.
Climate Action Reserve (CAR)
The Climate Action Reserve (CAR) is an offset registry for global carbon markets. CAR establishes high quality standards for carbon offset projects, oversees independent third-party verification bodies, issues carbon credits generated from such projects and tracks the transaction of credits over time in a transparent, publicly-accessible system.
International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit association with more than 250 members who are active stakeholders in the international carbon and emissions markets. The organization was created in 1999 to establish a global framework for greenhouse gas emission reductions trading.
International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC)
ISCC is a globally applicable sustainability certification system that covers all sustainable feedstocks, including agricultural and forestry biomass, circular and bio-based materials and renewables.
Xpansiv CBL
CBL has established the first of its kind Standard Instruments Program (SIP) to build on market infrastructure to accompany and govern the launch of spot contracts for the settlement and physical delivery of environmental commodities across existing registries that can be determined as meeting certain defined, standardized criteria for market quality and performance.
Zeroqu Solutions BV
Zeroqu is a technology driven digital platform developed by Zeroqu Solutions BV, engineered to align decarbonization goals with advanced vessel performance management. With a strong focus on sustainability, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency, Zeroqu simplifies access to carbon markets and equips maritime stakeholders with integrated tools to manage emissions, optimize fuel usage, and confidently navigate evolving environmental standards.