Maximize impact, minimize risk
Every CNaught portfolio is a diversified mix of high-integrity carbon credits. Curated by our science team, rated by independent agencies, and backed by the CNaught Guarantee.
Explore our core portfolios
Curated options, diversified to balance price, activity, and impact.
The Impact portfolio is our recommended portfolio for maximizing your climate impact while minimizing your risk. The portfolio is highly diversified and contains the full range of project categories based on Oxford's principles for carbon offsetting.
The Impact Lite portfolio is built on the foundation of the Impact Portfolio, while excluding tech-based removals that may not be delivered until the future. It maintains the same diversified approach while still being accessible to those who are more budget conscious.
The Value portfolio is built on the foundation of the Impact Portfolio, while excluding all carbon removals. This portfolio maximizes affordability by solely supporting projects that avoid emissions.
Meet your certification needs
High-quality portfolios that satisfy specific certification requirements.
This Portfolio is specifically designed to meet all of Change Climate’s requirements and track their recommendations, while enabling buyers to mitigate 100% of their emissions with 80% of their Carbon Transition Budget.
The Climate Active Impact Portfolio is a science-backed, diversified portfolio to maximize impact and mitigate risk based on Oxford's principles for carbon offsetting that meets the requirements of Climate Active Certification.
The Value Portfolio is CNaught's narrowest portfolio, designed to include affordable, high-quality avoided emission carbon credits that drive impact. This portfolio meets the requirements of Climate Active.
Need something specific?
Our team will build a bespoke portfolio around your budget, climate goals, and certification requirements, with projects that all pass our rigorous due diligence process.
Contact us →Frequently asked questions
It's important to use a portfolio approach because similar to a financial portfolio, spreading investment across multiple project types and geographies mitigates risk, diversifies impact across factors like biodiversity and community benefits, and lets buyers balance impact with affordability rather than depending on any single project's outcome. CNaught's portfolio approach aligns with experts in the industry like World Economic Forum and University of Oxford.
CNaught's portfolio approach follows Oxford's Principles for Carbon Offsetting, supported by the World Economic Forum. CNaught's portfolios are made up of four different categories of project types, which build on a paradigm laid out in the Oxford Principles. Consistent with Oxford, we weight our current portfolios toward the highest-impact technologies currently available at scale: the best avoided emissions projects. At the same time, we allocate a meaningful portion of our portfolios toward carbon removal projects with both short and long-term storage because it is critical that carbon removal solutions scale if we are to meet our climate goals. Over time we believe the weight of the portfolio will shift toward removal and longer-term storage as removal solutions scale and global progress on emission reductions also reduces the number of avoided emission projects.
Project integrity is non-negotiable, so we won't sell portfolios containing projects that do not pass our strict diligence. However, we can customize portfolios with strong projects that can meet nearly any need. Talk to us to learn more.
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Yes. CNaught builds solutions tailored to specific certification requirements such as The Climate Label, Australia's Climate Active, and Canada's Zero Carbon Building Performance Standard, or aligned with your broader sustainability goals. CNaught can also work with you to create a portfolio that meets other certifications or targets like SBTi, B Corp, The Climate Pledge, LEED, or 1% for the Planet. This lets stretched sustainability teams meet their targets without dedicating internal time to project sourcing and portfolio curation.