Maximize impact, minimize risk

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.

Yes, talk to us to learn more.

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.

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.

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.