Four Fin Creative

Certified 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

Four Fin Creative is taking proactive efforts to address global CO2 emissions that result from business activities. Through Offset Climate Certified®, the CO2 emissions resulting from their business activities have been third-party measured, and voluntarily mitigated through verified Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction projects. Since joining Offset Climate Certified®, they have supported the verified reduction of 150 mT of CO2 - to put this in perspective it would take 2,480 tree seedlings TEN YEARS to draw down this much CO2 (US EPA).

Four Fin Creative’s measured and meaningful climate action helps accelerate verified CO2 reductions at scale.

1 | Measured

Year measured: 2024
Total measured CO2 emissions: 18.449 metric tonnes

2 | Offset

Year offset: 2024
Offset amount: 19 metric tonnes CO2
Offset retirements: Ascend Performance 7 | SPLT 5 mT | Escuela de Minas 7
*In addition to offsetting their measured 2024 business emissions, Four Fin Creative made USD $6,244 in verified charitable donations to registered non-profits, addressing societal challenges that undermine progress and truly sustainable climate action.

3 | Reducing

Reduction goals for 2025
Avoid non-essential air travel / Optimize client designs with minimal energy requirements / Partner with and purchase from companies demonstrating transparent environmental and social stewardship / Encourage and support lower carbon employee commuting / Enroll in renewable energy programs where available

4 | Engaging

Engagement goals for 2025
Customers: share certification details and encourage they explore for themselves
Vendors/Partners: educating about commitment to being Offset Climate Certified® and why it’s a priority

Where Four Fin Creative supported independently verified CO2 reductions to mitigate their 2024 business emissions

FLORIDA

The Ascend Performance Phlogiston project uses proprietary technology to enhance voluntary control of N2O (nitrous oxide) emissions in Florida.
**Why it’s important:** N2O is a byproduct of manufacturing things like first responder uniforms and airbags for cars, and has a global warming potential 265X higher than carbon dioxide.
**Standard:** Climate Action Reserve **UN SDGs:** 9, 12, 13

COLORADO

SPLT is an accredited land trust leveraging carbon finance to acquire and preserve shortgrass prairie ecosystems in Colorado.
**Why it’s important**: avoids land conversion to agriculture / commercial development and provides refuge for native wildlife including the swift fox, ferruginous hawk, burrowing owl, and mountain plover.
**Standard:** Climate Action Reserve **UN SDGs: 13, 15**

COLOMBIA

Escuela de Minas is a run-of-river hydroelectric plant lowering the carbon intensity of increasing electricity production in southern Marinilla, Colombia.
**Why it’s important:** avoids the addition of fossil fuel intensive energy production, and increases the share of renewables as energy demand rises due to economic growth in the region.
**Standard:** Verra **UN SDGs:** 4, 7, 8, 13

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