AgCert™ Partners
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AES AgriVerde™, a joint venture designed to deploy AgCert's greenhouse gas emission reduction technology in selected countries in Asia, Europe and North Africa. Under the terms of the relevant agreements, AES will maintain a majority interest in the joint venture and plans to invest approximately US$325 million into the joint venture over the next five years. |
California Climate Action Registry (CCAR) | |
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AgCert™ is an approved vendor for Environmental Defense's FightGlobalWarming.com |
International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
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International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit organization created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading greenhouse gas emission reductions.
IETA members seek to develop an emissions trading regime that results in real and verifiable greenhouse gas emission reductions while balancing economic efficiency with environmental integrity and social equity. AgCert™, a corporate member since 2002, was IETA's first agricultural sector member. |
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Sansuy is a Brazilian public company founded in 1966 by Japanese Immigrants and is the Latin-American leader in the manufacturing of PVC flexible laminates (film) used in the following segments: visual communication, automotive, basic sanitation, agribusiness, transportation, civil construction, among others.
The company has three industrial plants (two of them in the State of Sao Paulo and the other in Bahia) with total production of 35,000 ton/year and 1700 collaborators. Its plants were awarded the ISO 9001 certification (Embu and Taboão) and ISO 9002 (Camaçari).
The biggest acknowledgement of its quality system was being awarded with the QS 9000 certification/ISO 9001, a Norm of the Quality System required for the companies participating in the automotive sector's productive chain. Although the procedures are applied mainly in this sector, Sansuy decided to include the QS certification process in the other departments of its plant in Sao Paulo, so that all segments attended by the company were beneficiated.
Sansuy offers flexible, semirigid calendared thermoplastic laminates and also compact, expanded, printed thermoplastic laminates, with or without textile reinforcement of high-tenacity polyester fabrics. It also offers other textile substrates. Furthermore, the company is responsible for the fabrication of finished and semi-finished products for industrial applications through thermowelding processes.
Sansuy's manufacturing process uses Japanese Technology Machineries from Ishikajima Arima Heavy Industries. |
Environmental Markets Association (EMA) |
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The Emissions Markets Association promotes market-based trading solutions for environmental management through the advancement and application of policy and regulation relevant to market-based emission trading systems, encouragement and facilitation of information exchange among members, other professional and technical groups, and the public. AgCert™ has been a corporate member since 2003. |
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
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AgCert™ has an existing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) #58-3K95-2-949 with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), entitled "Development of Greenhouse Gas Algorithms for Agricultural Systems."
AgCert™ works with USDA's National Soil Tilth Laboratory (NSTL). The CRADA was established in 2002. AgCert™ is currently negotiating a CRADA with a second U.S. government agency. |
United States Department of Agriculture GRACEnet |
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GRACEnet (Greenhouse Gas Reduction through Agricultural Carbon Enhancement network) is a new multi-location USDA-ARS research program.
Its purpose is to identify and further develop agricultural practices that will enhance carbon sequestration in soils, promote sustainability and provide a sound scientific basis for carbon credits and trading programs. GRACEnet also addresses the other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide and methane, that may be emitted by agricultural practices in order to evaluate the net global warming potential of the management practices under study. AgCert™ and GRACEnet scientists collaborate closely on research regarding greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in agriculture. |
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CASMGS is a consortium of nine universities and one National Laboratory assembled to investigate the potential of agricultural soils to mitigate greenhouse gases. AgCert has been affiliated since 2003. |
USDOE and Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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AgCert™ is working in collaboration with the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on non invasive technologies to measure carbon in soils. BNL is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory.
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AgCert™ Clients
BHP Billiton Is The World's Largest Diversified Resources Company. BHP Billiton is the industry leader or near industry leader in major commodity businesses, including aluminum, energy coal and metallurgical coal, copper, ferro-alloys, iron ore and titanium minerals, and has substantial interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, nickel, diamonds and silver. AgCert International entered into agreement to sell carbon emission credits in April 2005.
EDF-T was founded in 2000 and is now firmly established as a leading energy market participant. EDFT is based in London and is 100% owned subsidiary of EDF. EDF-T is active trading power, gas, coal, oil and renewable throughout Europe. EDF Trading and AgCert International concluded a major Certified Emission Reduction purchase agreement in March 2005.
ESB, Ireland's premier electricity utility, is engaged in the business of electricity generation, distribution and supply. ESB has been in operation for more than 75 years, operates a portfolio of 19 generation plants with an installed capacity of 4,400MW and has a customer base of 1.8m customers. ESB, has signed an agreement to purchase CERs from AgCert™.
BP has a UK consumer greenhouse gas reduction initiative called TargetNeutral. BP is behind TargetNeutral because they're committed to taking action against CO
2 emissions and educating the public about what they can do. Even BP's fuel trucks in the UK are all CO
2 neutral. AgCert supplies Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) to the TargetNeutral program.
