Sourcing

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We check the one you are about to buy. No inventory, no commission, no preferred counterparty, so nothing here has a reason to point you anywhere in particular.

11,659
projects on record
across 7 registries
151
countries
10 project categories
2.82 billion
tonnes issued
since the registries opened
1.59 billion
tonnes retired
claimed and taken off the market

Registry snapshot of 1 June 2026

What the database covers

Every project below is one somebody published. If a credit you are offered is not in here, that is the first thing worth asking about.

Verra
4,983 projects
Gold Standard
4,105 projects
Climate Action Reserve
1,268 projects
American Carbon Registry
979 projects
Cercarbono
234 projects
Isometric
62 projects
ART TREES
28 projects

By category

Renewable Energy 2,340
Forest 2,268
Energy Efficiency 1,966
Ghg Management 1,964
Agriculture 687
Fuel Switching 459

By host country

United States 1,909
India 1,903
China 1,563
Türkiye 574
Mexico 564
Brazil 415

Five things to establish before money moves

Each of these is answerable from the public record, and each is a way a carbon purchase actually goes wrong.

1

The project is real and is where it says it is

A name and a registry are not an identifier. Resolve the credit to a specific project record, then confirm the developer, the country and the crediting period match what you were told.

Registry Lookup
2

It is in good standing today

Projects get suspended, withdrawn, and put on hold. A record that was clean when the offer was written may not be clean now, and the status is published.

Project Auditor
3

The vintage you are being sold was actually issued

Issuance is recorded per vintage year. A 2023 vintage offered from a project that issued nothing in 2023 is the simplest fraud in this market, and the simplest to catch.

Registry Lookup
4

The methodology has been independently assessed

An independent integrity council assesses crediting methodologies against a set of core principles. What it concluded about the methodology behind your credit is public, and it is the question that decides whether the tonne was ever real.

Methodology Lab
5

The tonnes are not already retired

A retired tonne has been claimed by somebody. Retirement is recorded against the serial, and buying a retired credit buys nothing at all.

Retirement Ledger

Each of those checks is one tool. Watch all 17 run before you create an account.

Why there is no price list on this page

What a voluntary carbon credit actually traded at is not public. It sits with commercial price reporting services, and no free source carries it. A site that prints one anyway is either quoting a number it cannot support or quoting one somebody paid to place.

Compliance allowance prices are different, because governments publish them. So those we show, exactly as published, with the date attached.

What a government charges per tonne
$92.33
European Union Emissions Trading System
$3.04
Fujian (Pilot) Emissions Trading System

Across 19 compliance markets. The same tonne, priced by different governments.

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CRBN.credit does not sell, broker or hold carbon credits, and takes no commission on any transaction. Project records are reproduced from the registries that published them and carry the date of the snapshot they came from. Confirm registry, vintage, serial number and retirement status directly with the registry before transacting. Provided for informational purposes, not as investment advice.