EP Carbon stands as a pioneer in the modern carbon markets, championing responsible and equitable development for 16 years. Founded on the principles of anti-colonialism, we are Ep Partners dedicated to guiding carbon projects from initial concepts to impactful realities that benefit both communities and the environment.
We specialize in creating financial value through forest conservation and restoration. Our approach leverages carbon markets to monetize avoided emissions, achieved by preserving healthy forests and fostering new growth. As your ep partners, we bring expertise and a proven track record to ensure your projects deliver tangible results.
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With 41 Projects successfully launched, we have protected 6.1 Million Hectares of vital ecosystems and contributed to the reduction of 384.7 MMT CO2e Emissions. Become ep partners with us and contribute to these growing numbers.
Tailored Services for Your Carbon Project with EP Partners
As your dedicated ep partners, EP Carbon offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to support your carbon project from conception to completion and beyond. We understand that each project is unique, and our services are tailored to meet your specific needs and objectives.
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Project Identification: Laying the Foundation with EP Partners
The first step towards a successful carbon project is identifying viable opportunities. As experienced ep partners, we work with you to explore the potential of your project ideas, considering factors such as environmental impact, community benefits, and financial feasibility. Our initial consultations help clarify your vision and set the stage for effective project development.
Initial Technical Assessment: Expert Evaluation by EP Partners
EP Carbon provides an early technical assessment of your project, regardless of whether it’s just a concept or in early stages of development. Drawing on our extensive experience as ep partners in the carbon market, this assessment maps out a clear pathway from your project activities to generating carbon credits. We meticulously select the most appropriate carbon standard for your project, ensuring alignment with industry best practices. Our approach goes beyond superficial remote sensing data, delving into the critical technical details necessary for project success.
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Project Finance for Development: Securing Capital with EP Partners
Access to capital is crucial for bringing carbon projects to fruition. As your ep partners, we understand the financial landscape of carbon markets and can leverage our network to help you secure project finance. Our initial technical assessments and detailed design studies serve as robust foundations for attracting investment. We can directly communicate with your preferred investment partners or facilitate introductions to our extensive network of capital providers who are actively seeking impactful carbon projects to support.
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Designing High Quality Projects: Rigorous and Transparent Design by EP Partners
EP Carbon is committed to designing carbon projects of the highest quality and integrity. As your ep partners, we adhere to stringent principles throughout the project design phase to ensure the lowest risk and highest potential for success. We initiate the process with a comprehensive feasibility or design study, meticulously evaluating your development options. Leveraging cutting-edge geospatial data and proprietary technologies, we enhance the rigor of the design process. Combined with our on-the-ground support, we ensure that project design is harmonized with the interests of all stakeholders, especially local communities. Our detailed design studies deliver comprehensive data, empowering you to make informed investment and development decisions with confidence when partnering with EP Carbon.
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Risk Mitigation: Strengthening Project Viability with EP Partners
Proactive risk mitigation is integral to the success of any carbon project. As your experienced ep partners, EP Carbon incorporates a robust risk mitigation plan into every project design. This plan is specifically tailored to address potential gaps and uncertainties, preparing your project for rapid and efficient development. By proactively managing risks, we enhance the confidence of investors, community members, and carbon credit buyers, solidifying the long-term viability of your project as ep partners.
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Development Partnerships: Bringing Projects to Market Together with EP Partners
EP Carbon goes beyond technical design by providing essential carbon technical development and ongoing monitoring services. Crucially, as your ep partners, we actively facilitate strategic partnerships that are vital for effective project development and market entry. Building upon the strong foundation of our technical design services, we ensure that each project is equipped with the necessary financial structure and a capable implementation team for sustained success. Partnering with EP Carbon means gaining access to a network that supports your project’s long-term objectives.
Quality and Impact: Hallmarks of EP Partners Carbon Projects
EP Carbon is dedicated to developing carbon projects that withstand rigorous external scrutiny, demonstrating genuine climate and community benefits. We firmly believe in the potential of carbon markets to deliver significant value to vulnerable populations and ecologically important areas. However, we also recognize that this potential can only be realized through development processes that are characterized by rigor and transparency. When you choose ep partners, you choose a commitment to quality and impactful outcomes.
We ensure that all projects we support reach the market and deliver real, measurable impact. This commitment to impact is showcased through our collaboration with Impact Inside.
As a Certified Partner of Impact Inside, EP Carbon projects gain access to cutting-edge technologies that facilitate impactful project design, real-time monitoring of project progress, and transparent communication of project activities and community benefits. This partnership further strengthens our ability to deliver on our promises as reliable ep partners.
Core Development Values of EP Partners
EP Carbon’s approach, as your trusted ep partners, is guided by a set of core development values that ensure the integrity and effectiveness of every project.
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Additionality: Ensuring Real Climate Benefit with EP Partners
EP Carbon rigorously upholds the principle of additionality. As diligent ep partners, we require compelling evidence to demonstrate that projects are truly additional, meaning that the carbon emission reductions or removals would not have occurred in the absence of carbon revenue. We conduct thorough assessments to ensure that there are significant barriers preventing project activities from happening without carbon market incentives. This rigorous approach guarantees the genuine climate benefit of your projects when you partner with EP Carbon.
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Realistic Baselines: Credible and Objective Assessments by EP Partners
EP Carbon employs a systematic and objective approach to baseline scenario analysis, with specific requirements tailored to each project category. As responsible ep partners, we target high-risk areas and apply objective risk analysis to ensure the credibility of our baseline projections. We often utilize jurisdictional baselines, ensuring that projects are rigorously compared to the most likely “without-project” scenario. This commitment to realistic baselines is a cornerstone of our partnership approach.
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Accurate Climate and Co-Benefits: Verifiable Impact with EP Partners
EP Carbon mandates that projects are designed to generate verifiable climate and community benefits. As supportive ep partners, we actively assist project proponents in this critical process, developing detailed work plans that outline effective monitoring practices. We ensure that project activities are measured rigorously, results are transparently documented, and stakeholders and credit buyers have clear visibility into project outcomes.
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Permanence: Long-Term Climate Solutions with EP Partners
EP Carbon recognizes the urgency of both short-term and long-term climate solutions. As forward-thinking ep partners, we believe that forests can provide a lasting solution to climate change, provided that projects are meticulously planned and benefit from strong community support. We collaborate closely with our partners to develop projects designed for long-term operation, managing natural risks proactively to ensure permanence and sustained impact.
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Stakeholder Benefits: Equitable Benefit Sharing with EP Partners
EP Carbon’s core mission is to promote equitable benefit sharing for vulnerable people and places. As ethical ep partners, we require all projects to actively incorporate stakeholder feedback into project design and benefit-sharing plans. Throughout the project lifecycle, EP Carbon remains engaged, monitoring projects to ensure the fair and equitable distribution of benefits, maximizing positive community impact.
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Transparency: Openness and Accountability with EP Partners
EP Carbon values transparency in all aspects of our work. While we respect the confidentiality of projects during the initial development phases, as accountable ep partners, we advocate for transparency regarding project analyses and materials upon project registration. We believe that projects benefit significantly when stakeholders and the public can readily examine project documents and calculations, fostering a clear understanding of benefit distribution and project impacts.
Project Proponents: Empowering Local Leadership with EP Partners
EP Carbon directly collaborates with project beneficiaries, including forest owners, NGOs, and local communities. As supportive ep partners, we work together to design, finance, and implement impactful carbon projects.
Carbon credits offer a unique opportunity to fund forest conservation while establishing a sustainable, long-term revenue stream for local communities. Our projects are designed to reduce carbon emissions from forests through sustainable conservation and restoration activities, creating a virtuous cycle of environmental and economic benefits.
Healthy forest ecosystems are the foundation for biodiversity, clean water, and skilled jobs. They also provide broader community benefits, including funding for essential services like schools. Partnering with EP Carbon means investing in these multifaceted benefits.
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Partnerships for Development: Collaborative Success with EP Partners
We recognize that successful carbon project development requires a strong network of support. As facilitators and ep partners, we actively foster partnerships to ensure that project proponents possess the necessary administrative structure, implementation capacity, and financial resources for success.
We firmly believe that direct project beneficiaries are best positioned to lead the design and development of carbon projects in their own communities. Our partnerships program is specifically designed to provide these frontline proponents with the crucial support they need to navigate the complexities of carbon markets effectively.
Through our Drawn Carbon Program, we identify strategic funding and collaboration opportunities. By partnering with highly experienced development organizations, our approach empowers project proponents to concentrate on their core strengths: implementing high-integrity carbon projects that deliver direct and meaningful benefits to both people and place. Join our network of ep partners and amplify your impact.
Depending on the specific needs of each project, our partners encompass a diverse range of entities. These include financial institutions that provide vital startup capital, project finance solutions, or sales and marketing expertise, as well as administrative and implementation partners who complement the proponents’ existing capabilities and bridge any gaps essential for successful project development. Explore our project finance opportunities further at DrawnCarbon.com.
Bringing Conservation Finance to Forests Globally with EP Partners
EP Carbon, as your global ep partners, extends conservation finance to forests around the world, driving positive environmental and social impact on a global scale.
Recent Projects: Demonstrating Impact with EP Partners
Our portfolio of recent projects showcases the tangible impact of partnering with EP Carbon.
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Indonesia: The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project
The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project in Indonesia stands as a testament to the power of carbon finance. This project effectively protects 640 square kilometers of critical orangutan habitat while strategically channeling carbon revenues into impactful initiatives that foster socioeconomic growth for tens of thousands of people in the region. This project exemplifies the holistic approach of ep partners.
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Guatemala: REDD+ Project for Caribbean Guatemala
The REDD+ Project for Caribbean Guatemala demonstrates the power of collective action. Each year, hundreds of local farmers unite to conserve regional forests, generating carbon revenues that are reinvested in essential community services such as healthcare, education, and technical extension programs. As the first grouped project of its kind, the REDD+ Project for Caribbean Guatemala serves as a compelling model for smallholder engagement to create significant impact at scale, facilitated by ep partners.
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Colombia: Mutatá REDD+ Project
The Mutatá REDD+ Project in Colombia is empowering indigenous communities by strengthening self-governance and control over vital forest resources. Carbon revenues generated from avoided forest loss are strategically reinvested within these communities to finance sustainable agriculture initiatives, enhance education opportunities, and create new employment pathways, fostering long-term community resilience through the support of ep partners.
How Partnering with EP Carbon Works
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Submit your project idea for review, here.
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Participate in an initial technical assessment or design study.
We will identify key technical considerations, potential risks, projected financial returns, and financing requirements specific to your project.
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Determine a partnership strategy for development.
We will connect you with relevant investors, provide assistance with due diligence processes, and identify additional partners who can contribute to your project’s success.
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Structure the project for direct local benefits.
We will help you develop a comprehensive co-benefit strategy and ensure you obtain all necessary free, prior, and informed consent from relevant stakeholders, ensuring community alignment.
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Attract buyers for carbon credits.
We will effectively document your project’s compelling story and market it to potential carbon credit buyers to secure premium pricing, maximizing your financial returns.
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Implement project activities.
We will collaborate with you to develop a practical implementation plan that you can effectively execute on the ground.
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Measure, validate, and verify impacts.
We will identify key monitoring indicators that you can track to measure project performance. Subsequently, we will rigorously document the project’s impact and facilitate a thorough third-party audit to ensure credibility.
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Register and deliver carbon credits.
We will guide you through all necessary paperwork to fulfill purchase agreements and ensure smooth credit delivery. Furthermore, we will provide ongoing assistance with continuous measurement, documentation, and verification processes. Depending on the complexity of project activities, the delivery of initial carbon credits typically takes between six months and two years.
Standards We Uphold as Your Partners
EP Carbon works exclusively with leading carbon standards that provide access to top-tier markets for projects across the globe. This commitment to high standards ensures the credibility and marketability of your carbon credits when you partner with us.
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