Accelerate your climate action strategy

At TEM, we believe transparency is the key to both impact and accountability.

TEM engages with carbon standards that are endorsed by the International Carbon Reduction & Offset Alliance (ICROA) and the Australian Government’s Climate Active program. These include:

• Verified Carbon Standard / Verra

• Gold Standard

• Clean Development Mechanism

• Australian Emissions Reduction Fund / Australian Carbon Credit Unit standards

• American Carbon Reserve

But TEM goes further than this. Through TEM’s due diligence process, we assess key aspects of carbon projects to mitigate any potential risks such as:

• Whether the project represents emissions abatement that is additional to what would have otherwise occurred in a ‘business-as-usual’ scenario.

• Whether the project methodology has been applied at best practice.

• Any issues identified in the project’s monitoring, verification, and validation reports.

• Any association of the project to bribery, corruption, environmental damage, or landholder mistreatment.

• The reputation of the project developer.

• Local community perception the projects; and

• The permanence and longevity of the project.

Offsetting plays a critical role across all businesses carbon strategies. Some of the key benefits include:

• Meeting customer, investor and staff expectations to cut carbon pollution.

• Enhanced brand reputation and value.

• Improved brand integrity.

• Increased customer loyalty and sales.

• Meeting other strategic business goals, like Reconciliation Action Plan targets and aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals.

• Establish industry leadership.

• Market and geographic synergies from project co-benefits.

• Delivering co-benefits beyond carbon reductions, including biodiversity, gender equality and Indigenous employment.

• Meet emission-reduction targets while working towards long term sustainability changes.

• Inspire your workforce to engage in carbon reduction activities in house, in turn reducing your costs and supporting your goals.

• Send you content and copy relating to the projects you're supporting. Expect this within 1x business day of your purchase!

• Add your company to our customer page. This will show: the projects you have supported and the volume of offsets per project. We won’t share any financial info.

• Retire the offsets you have purchased. If you choose a company-specific retirement certificate, we'll retire your offsets in your name within a few days of your purchase and send you the certificate then. If you are happy with bulk retirement, we will retire them in bulk (in TEM’s name rather than your company’s name) in the month following your purchase, along with other TEM+ customers. Note: you will need individual retirement for Climate Active and other certification purposes.

• The evidence of retirement will include: the listing on each registry that relates to the offsets you have purchased, a TEM-branded retirement certificate, and a link to the customer page (point 2 above).

• Keep you updated on new projects as they’re added to TEM+. Of course – you can choose to opt out of those emails!