Buying Carbon Credits

Emissions Trading

Emission Credits Corporation acts as a broker between greenhouse gas reducing farmers and potential buyers, companies that emit more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases a year.

The market-based system works to reduce overall emissions while bringing needed cash to the province’s rural communities. This offset would not have occurred without market intervention, giving a price to the carbon offset that helps the farmers. It’s a value-added revenue source that gives the farmer an incentive to convert to a zero-till activity. Several hundred farmers have signed up to trade credits with Emission Credits Corporation. We have industrial polluters on the other side lined up, eager to purchase the credits.