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Choose a project, buy independently audited carbon credits, and receive verified retirement certificates — supporting climate and community impact across Africa.
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Credible Carbon is a South African registry promoting transparent and accountable access to the global carbon market for poverty-alleviating projects in Africa.
Credible Carbon focuses exclusively on African climate projects, keeping transaction costs low so that most revenue flows directly to the communities delivering emissions reductions. Our streamlined, independently audited process supports small, high-impact initiatives that demonstrate additionality, meet permanence requirements, and report annually through a fully transparent registry — ensuring every credit delivers real, measurable climate impact.
Every project is verified by accredited third-party auditors to confirm real emissions reductions and developmental benefits.
All credits, issuances, and retirements are publicly listed, so buyers can trace every transaction end-to-end.
We support small, high-impact climate projects rooted in African communities, ensuring revenue flows directly to those delivering the reductions.
Our existing offset projects have been carefully selected and audited to be able to supply offset credits for purchase.
Offsetting through Credible Carbon is a simple and transparent process, from estimating your footprint to choosing a project and receiving verified credits.
Use our Carbon Calculator or your own data to calculate your carbon footprint.
Browse our verified projects and select where your contribution will go.
Buy the number of credits using credit card, EFT or PayPal
Choose whether to retire your credits, trade them, or keep them for future use.
Mongabay’s feature on Tswalu Kalahari Reserve shows how credible, audited carbon finance can help catalyse rewilding, conservation and community investment. Credible Carbon is proud to support projects that connect measurable climate impact with real benefits for people and nature.
We’re excited to share the first in our new Credible Carbon Project Features, showcasing how community-driven initiatives are making a real difference in climate and livelihoods. Our inaugural feature highlights Walker’s Recycling, a pioneering project turning waste into opportunity — creating jobs, reducing emissions, and demonstrating the power of accessible carbon markets.
No carbon project should last forever, but knowing the right time to end a project is difficult. After discussion with SouthSouthNorth, it was decided not to re-audit and re-issue credits from the world famous Kuyasa project. Anton Cartwright reflects on the 15 year relationship of this pioneering carbon market initiative.
The Credible Carbon registry only sells credits that have been shown to be Additional, Measurable and Permanent and supported by Excellent Data (AMPED). We look for scale (minimum 1000 tCO2/year) and for projects that have social impact/poverty alleviation. We regretfully do not consider planned or undeveloped projects.
Find out if your project could qualify as a Credible Carbon offset project.
