BEF Carbon Credit Portfolio

Supporting Alaskan Tribal Nations through carbon credit revenue

From beaches to high elevation terrain, the Kootznoowoo Native Community Forestry Project protects 19,856 acres across Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, including 8,000 acres of rare, old-growth forest.

The native Haida and Tlingit people own this project and manage it in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service. Revenue from credit sales support the native population of about 500 people living in the village of Andoon through job and scholarship opportunities.

Many types of wildlife and plantlife live in the protected project area, including Sitka black-tailed deer, black bear, mountain goat, moose, beaver, weasel, land otter, red fox, and more than twelve fish-bearing streams that are home to several species of salmon as well as steelhead trout.

Registry ID: ACR499, Vintage: 2022, Credit Type: Avoidance

Removal Credits Supporting the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana

This Improved Forest Management project covers 106,706 acres of commercial working forest on the Northern Cheyenne Indian reservation in Eastern Montana.

The Reservation’s forestland is predominantly stocked with ponderosa pine, a native species adapted to the region’s dry conditions. The project is a critical source of timber-replacing revenue, which allows the Tribe to preserve large amounts of its mature timber and also wait for wildfire impacted areas to recover. The tribe is committing to maintaining and increasing carbon stocks while sustainably managing for wildlife and wildfire management.

In addition to supporting a sustainable economy, a more diverse forest better serves the Tribe’s way of life, which values wildlife, fisheries, recreation, aesthetics, and cultural uses of the forest.

Registry ID: ACR745, Vintage: 2023-2024, Credit Type: Removal

Perpetual protection of sustainable working forests in valuable hardwoods forests of Minnesota

The Blandin Native Hardwoods project safeguards more than 175,000 acres of native hardwood forest in northern Minnesota, including the state’s largest conservation easement, and is registered with the American Carbon Registry.

Longer intervals between harvests let trees mature and store more carbon while preserving the forest’s natural diversity, clean water, and wildlife habitat. The forest shelters 60,000 acres of wetlands and 151 miles of streams, including 30 miles of state-recognized trout waters, and supports moose, gray wolves, black bears, and dozens of bird species. Nearby communities benefit too, through open recreational access, hands-on learning and research, and free firewood permits and tree seedlings.

Registry ID: ACR212, Vintage: 2019-2020, Credit Type: Avoidance

Removal Credits from Improved Forest Management & Conservation

The Wabassus Improved Forest Management Project, registered with the American Carbon Registry, protects FSC-certified working forest in Maine under a permanent conservation easement. Having earned the Forest Stewardship Council Forest Management certification by the Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program, this project demonstrates high quality sustainable management that maintains and enhances local biodiversity.

The property includes nearly nine miles of lakeshore, about six miles of streams, and 550 acres of wetlands where bald eagles and loons nest. Careful forestry builds carbon while sustaining habitat for marten, deer, black bears, snowshoe hare, grouse, and woodcock, and old dams are being removed to reopen streams for fish. The land remains open to the public for paddling, fishing, hunting, hiking, and snowmobiling.

Registry ID: ACR422, Vintage: 2023, Credit Type: Removal

Embracing the beauty of the Pacific Northwest while capturing carbon, protecting watersheds and threatened species

Nestled in the conifer forests of SW Washington, this 13,393 acre project brings together a diverse group of stakeholders committed to maintaining forest CO2 stocks through sustainable management. This commitment ensures the project will provide significant climate benefits through carbon sequestration.

Additionally, the project also improves the health of the forest, increases fire and climate resilience, provides opportunities for jobs and economic growth, and preserves exceptional wildlife habitat.

Project ID: ACR616     Vintage: 2021

We are currently sold out of credits from this project. Contact our Environmental Partnerships team to inquire about similar projects or to place a custom order.

Preserving the vast Eastern Oregon grasslands

BNW Ranch is an Avoided Grassland Conversion project covering an estimated 4,098 acres owned by The Nature Conservancy. Identified as a priority for conservation because of its habitat value and threat of conversion to crop production, a variety of plant, aquatic, and wildlife species (including elk, mule deer, pronghorn sheep, and sharp-tailed grouse) depend on these intact grassland habitats.

Protecting rangeland and prairie ecosystems allows for native vegetation and nutrient rich soils to filter contaminants, reduce topsoil erosion and improve freshwater resources. Avoiding conversion to cropland also reduces nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use that often leads to excess nutrient runoff and downstream eutrophication.

Registry ID: CAR1284, Vintage: 2024, Credit Type: Avoidance

Conserving water and reducing methane through regenerative agriculture

Conventional rice farming floods fields for months, consuming vast amounts of water and producing about 12% of the world’s methane emissions. Registered with the Climate Action Reserve, this project helps rice farmers in the southern U.S. switch to methods like alternate wetting and drying and furrow irrigation, which reduce methane by around 70%, cut water use by roughly 30%, and lower arsenic in the rice by about 27%, all without sacrificing yields.

Carbon revenue has already paid participating farmers $7.1 million, helping them afford these changes, while saving an estimated 52 billion gallons of water. Rated A by BeZero Carbon and carrying the CCP label, the project now reaches about 6% of U.S. rice acres.

Registry ID: CAR1513, Vintage: 2024, Credit Type: Avoidance

Bringing economic development to a poverty-stricken region

The construction and ongoing operations of this large-scale wind power plant created more than 200 jobs, which helps spur economic development and alleviate poverty in Ningxia, one of the poorest regions in China. The construction of a road for the project also benefits the local community by allowing farmers to transport goods more easily from the rural, mountainous area into the city.

Registry ID: VCS1867, Vintage: 2021, Credit Type: Avoidance

Helping Argentina reach its wind energy potential

Despite Argentina’s great wind potential, wind power generation projects so far represent only a small share of the country’s electricity portfolio, making the 99MW Manantiales Behr wind farm an important renewable and clean alternative for electricity generation and a valuable contribution to the diversification of the Argentine energy matrix.

The project reduces GHG and local air pollutants (SO2, NOx and PM) emissions, stimulates the local economy by providing job opportunities, and improves the local infrastructure via new roads and electricity lines.

Registry ID: VCS1820, Vintage: 2021, Credit Type: Avoidance

Accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles through this award-winning project

Transportation is the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, yet EVs still make up only a small fraction of vehicles on the road, partly because drivers worry about finding reliable chargers.

Developed by the Connecticut Green Bank under the Verra methodology it helped create, this award-winning project brings together dozens of utilities, charging networks, and managed charging providers to earn carbon credits for powering electric cars, transit buses, and school buses.

Credit revenue gives charging operators long-term funding that doesn’t depend on government incentives, with roughly every 33 tons purchased providing enough capital for another charging system. Many credits also come from programs that shift charging to off-peak hours, lowering costs for drivers, easing pressure on the grid, and cutting air pollution.

Registry ID: VCS2073, Vintage: 2021-2022, Credit Type: Avoidance

Taking out the greenhouse gas trash with landfill combustion

Landfills are the third largest human-caused source of methane in the U.S., and methane traps 25 to 86 times more heat than carbon dioxide. At a closed landfill in Hidalgo County, Texas, the Rio Grande Valley Landfill Project uses 64 gas wells to capture methane from decomposing waste and destroy it in a flare, preventing nearly 600,000 metric tonnes of CO₂e from entering the atmosphere. Because no regulation requires gas collection at this site, carbon credit revenue is what keeps the system operating.

Registered with the Climate Action Reserve, the project also reduces odors and harmful air pollutants for nearby communities. It’s quality has been recognized externally, earning the credits the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market.

This project meets the criteria for the Core Carbon Principles and has been approved by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market.

Registry ID: CAR512 , Vintage: 2024, Credit Type: Avoidance

Taking out the greenhouse gas trash with landfill combustion

At a well-run landfill in Brusque, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, this project captures methane released by decomposing waste and burns it before it can reach the atmosphere. Methane traps 25 to 86 times more heat than carbon dioxide, and because Brazil has no state or national rules requiring landfills to control it, the operator chose to install the collection system voluntarily. Carbon credit revenue keeps that system running and helped fund 4.56 megawatts of on-site power generation that runs the gas collection equipment.

Beyond its climate benefits, the project reduces odors and harmful air pollutants and helps protect groundwater, improving health and quality of life for nearby residents. The project’s quality has been recognized externally, earning an AA rating from BeZero Carbon and the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market.

Registry ID: VCS4138, Vintage: 2022-2023, Credit Type: Avoidance

Building a more sustainable future through the circular economy approach to the lifecycle management of refrigerant gases

HFC refrigerants keep our food cold and our buildings cool, but they trap hundreds to thousands of times more heat than carbon dioxide, and most of that warming happens within the first 20 years after they escape.

This project, developed by A-Gas, recovers used HFCs from equipment that is being serviced or retired and restores them to like-new quality for reuse, eliminating the need to manufacture new gas. Each reclaimed batch is tracked from source to reuse and independently verified under the American Carbon Registry’s reclaimed HFC methodology. Carbon finance makes reclamation, which supplied just 2% of U.S. HFCs in 2020, economically viable today, cutting emissions while supporting jobs and a circular economy.

Registry ID: ACR1200, Vintage: 2025, Credit Type: Avoidance

Critical Restoration for People and Nature

This fund will be strategically leveraged to catalyze funding for Tribes and underserved communities to reduce flood risk and bring back salmon in the Pacific Northwest. As climate change accelerates, it leaves these communities more vulnerable to flooding which also destroys wildlife and plantlife habitats, and precious salmon breeding grounds. Restoration of these areas will benefit both people and nature.

Building community energy, affordability, resilience, and energy sovereignty on Indigenous lands

Support Tribal renewable energy project development and construction through your stacked carbon offset purchase. Tribal renewable energy programs advance energy sovereignty, strengthen community resilience and internal capacity, and reduce energy costs for Tribal Nations. Many projects also incorporate hands-on workforce development and local STEM education opportunities.

Providing funding for tree planting partners up and down the West Coast

BEF has many partners along the West Coast of the USA planting trees for habitat restoration, fire resilience and recovery.  Especially, as wildfire events are likely to increase in pace and intensity, there is a growing and pressing need to support recovery efforts. You can get involved by leveraging your carbon offset purchase to support work such as the planting of trees and shrubs that will rebuild and replenish wildfire-affected and other landscapes and communities that need support.

Save the orcas we all love

The Southern Resident orcas living along the West Coast are down to just 74 individuals. Restoring streams that feed into the Pacific, planting trees that benefit regional habitat, and engaging the next generation of orca caretakers will help these pods have the food and clean water they need to thrive.