Global Carbon Council

The Global Carbon Council (GCC), an initiative of Gulf Organisation for Research and Development (GORD), is a voluntary carbon offsetting program that aims to assist the organisations reduce their carbon footprints, help sectoral economy to diversify by adopting low-carbon pathways and catalyze climate actions on ground. GCC aims to achieve this by: – Support the organisations in implementing GHG reduction projects and measures; – Develop stringent but simplified standards for the emission reduction calculations and monitoring of GHG reduction projects and measures implemented by the organisations in the region; – Establish market system between GHG reduction project owners who wish to sell the carbon offsets and project supporters who provide carbon finance to project owners; – Establish transparent and simple certification processes in accordance with international protocol for operationalization of carbon offsetting program that can deliver the highly credible, cost effective and sustainable carbon offsets to the organisations; and – Communicate organizational and regional climate actions to the world in a positive context, by creating compendium of climate actions.