For interested buyers
Eligibility
We believe in our mission and commit ourselves to empowering smallholder farmers and fighting climate change. That also means that we want the organizations who buy our credits to make a real effort, and not just buy a few carbon credits and tick a box.
To be eligible to purchase Acorn CRUs organizations must meet the following criteria:
1. Organizations should qualify as a business user and not a consumer.
2. Organizations must not be active in any of the following sectors:
oil and gas;
aviation;
mining, or;
other fossil fuels industries (this does not include power generation utilities who use fossil fuels to generate electricity for consumption).
3. At least one of the following measures should be in place:
a committed science-based target (SBTi) aligned to limiting a global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees;
is part of the Net Zero Banking Alliance;
a written strategy in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (publicly available or available to Rabobank); reductions should be in line with the industry target of the SBTi standard;
proven greenhouse gas reduction (publicly available or available to Rabobank), in line with the industry targets of the SBTi standard.
Furthermore, all Third-Party buyers must comply with the Rabobank Sustainability Statement, or have a similar type of policy in place.
CRU details
We believe in our mission and commit ourselves to empowering smallholder farmers and fighting climate change. That also means that we want the organizations who buy our credits to make a real effort, and not just buy a few carbon credits and tick a box.
To be eligible to purchase Acorn CRUs organizations must meet the following criteria:
1. Organizations should qualify as a business user and not a consumer.
2. Organizations must not be active in any of the following sectors:
oil and gas;
aviation;
mining, or;
other fossil fuels industries (this does not include power generation utilities who use fossil fuels to generate electricity for consumption).
3. At least one of the following measures should be in place:
a committed science-based target (SBTi) aligned to limiting a global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees;
is part of the Net Zero Banking Alliance;
a written strategy in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (publicly available or available to Rabobank); reductions should be in line with the industry target of the SBTi standard;
proven greenhouse gas reduction (publicly available or available to Rabobank), in line with the industry targets of the SBTi standard.
Furthermore, all Third-Party buyers must comply with the Rabobank Sustainability Statement, or have a similar type of policy in place.