We align with leading science to deliver trust and confidence for our buyers, maximizing climate impact while minimizing risk.
Not all carbon credits are created equal. CNaught's due diligence process finds that only ~15% of credits in the market meet its quality bar, so buyers need a diversified portfolio of high-integrity credits to maximize impact and minimize risk. Yet most sustainability teams are stretched too thin to source and curate portfolios themselves.
CNaught performs rigorous due diligence and delivers ready-to-purchase portfolios aligned with leading climate science. We continuously monitor every project and provide tools that make it easy to track and confidently share your progress — so you can stay focused on driving change within your business.
From building your portfolio to transparently reporting the impact you've made.
Experts across science and industry agree buyers should take a portfolio approach, for several key advantages.
Like any market, the VCM carries risk. Investing across several projects and project types means you're not dependent on a single project's outcome.
Support projects across activity types and geographies to influence beyond-carbon factors like community, biodiversity, and ecosystem benefits.
Stay on budget by blending differently priced projects into a price per tonne that works for you.
Support a range of technologies to help novel removal methods reach scale, laying the groundwork for a future of long-term carbon removal.
The Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting, widely regarded as “best practices” in the field and endorsed by the World Economic Forum, recommend diversification across project types, while transitioning to removals with long-term storage over time.
Source: Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting
Building on the Oxford Principles, our portfolios blend four categories of projects that vary along two axes — whether they avoid or remove emissions, and whether they're technology-based or nature-based. Over time, allocations shift increasingly toward removals.
Projects that aim to reduce and avoid emissions with technology-based solutions.
Projects that remove or store existing atmospheric carbon with technology-based solutions.
Projects that aim to reduce and avoid emissions with nature-based solutions.
Projects that remove or store existing atmospheric carbon with nature-based solutions.
Every project runs through our 7-step diligence process — only those that meet our integrity criteria make it into a portfolio. Aligned with expert recommendations from the Stockholm Environment Institute and the GHG Management Institute's Offset Guide, our process pairs a thorough internal assessment with independent third-party evaluations. Every project must be highly rated by one of the four leading agencies.
We evaluate each project across four quality pillars, and stand behind the result with the CNaught Guarantee. Every purchase includes ongoing monitoring and protection against project failure, at no additional cost.
The activity wouldn't have happened without the carbon finance.
Credits accurately reflect the real climate impact delivered.
The carbon stays out of the atmosphere over the long term.
Each reduction is claimed once and only once.
The carbon credit space moves fast, and we stay on top of it so you don't have to. We continuously monitor the performance of every project we support, proactively seeking new data and re-evaluating projects to protect your investment and maximize impact.
If a project you bought credits from is canceled or suspended for over a year due to a risk our diligence failed to address, under the CNaught Guarantee, we'll replace those credits with another high-integrity portfolio at no additional cost.
Once you've purchased your portfolio, it's important to share your progress — whether to meet requirements like California's AB 1305 or to communicate impact to customers and employees. Manage all your purchases, even those made outside CNaught, from your dashboard.
Our built-in reporting tools make it easy to meet voluntary or mandatory requirements, and our AI-powered marketing tools help you share your story in your own brand identity.
