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CCX - Chicago Climate Exchange. FBDS is its only representative in Brazil

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Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) was set up in 2003 when a number of major North American corporations and public institutions got together and agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Accordingly, they decided to invest in their own productive process, or buy "carbon credits" from businesses in the NAFTA region (United States, Canada and Mexico) and in Brazil.

What are carbon credits? It is a kind of environmental currency that can be earned by various means as follows:

  • Projects that absorb GHG from the air, for example, reforestation.
  • Reduce emissions from burning fossil fuels.
  • Substitute fossil fuels for clean and renewable energy, such as wind, solar, biomass, PCH energy, for example.
  • Produce energy by using emissions that would be discharged into the air anyway (methane from waste fills).

Brazil has enormous potential to generate "carbon credits". The size of our forest sector is incomparable, our energy matrix is unique, and there is no lack of physical, geographic and climate factors that benefit the development of environmentally healthy sources of energy.

In this scenario, FBDS, as the only CCX representative in Brazil, is responsible for selecting, analyzing and forwarding potential Brazilian projects.