American National Standards Institute Director of Environmental Accreditation Ann Howard has received The Climate Action Reserve’s “Climate Action Reserve Recognizing Our Team” award.
Howard received the award on April 19 during the annual Navigating the American Carbon World Conference in San Francisco, California.
Each year, the Climate Action Reserve—a nonprofit registry that certifies projects for reducing emissions—gives its distinguished “Climate Action Reserve Recognizing Our Team” award to partners who exemplify efforts to further its mission of ensuring the environmental integrity of greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects and creating and supporting financial and environmental value in the U.S. carbon market.
As a standardization stakeholder, the reserve creates high-quality standards for carbon offset projects and oversees independent third-party verification bodies, issues carbon credits generated from such projects, and tracks the transaction of credits over time in a transparent, publicly accessible system.
While ANSI’s role is not to recognize or develop standards, schemes, or greenhouse gas methodologies, ANSI’s accreditation program provides validators/verifiers recognition from various organizations, including the Climate Action Reserve.
Each department gives an award at the reserve, which began as the California Climate Action Registry, and was created by the state of California in 2001 to address climate change through voluntary calculation and public reporting of emissions.