VPA India,

Decarbonisation, Decarbonology & Decarbonomics Expert,

Celebrating 27 Years of Expertise,

About us:

VPA India started its operation on 05 - March - 1997 as an Environmental consultancy & advisory service company. Later on, after studying M.S.: Environmental technology with master’s thesis on the topic of GHG emission allowances trading system from Germany, the founder Mr. Vijay Patel extended its carbon business in January 2008 by providing consultancy to various carbon credits projects under Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol. He also worked as a lead auditor for validation and verification at DOE/VVB company SGS.

The areas of expertise include:

> Terrestrial land carbon projects: AFOLU, Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) Framework Program or Project (FREL/FRL based, JNR Scenario 2 is preferred), REDD+, Afforestation / Reforestation / Revegetation, Improved Forest Management, Regenerative Agriculture. Forest result-based payment to government - UN REDD+ program, ART – TREES carbon standard.

> Blue carbon projects (Approved methodologies only):

Coastal & tidal wetland - Restoration and conservation: Mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass meadows, seaweed farming and kelp forests.

Fresh water - Restoration and conservation: Marshes and grasses.

For the opportunities in compliance and voluntary carbon markets; VPA India offers emission allowances / permits compliance under emissions trading system. We also offer carbon assets facilitation under various standards such as CDM of UNFCCC, Gold standard and VERRA. The sustainability offerings include strategic consultancy in the area of GHG quantification, carbon footprint, climate change risk & opportunity assessments, carbon neutrality and corporate sustainability reporting services. We conduct the Third-Party ESG, BRSR, GRI, Sustainability, GHG, Carbon footprint, EU CBAM audit and assurance services. On financial forefront, we offer Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) investment and Green / Sustainability linked bonds & deposits services.

We also provide one of the unique services for government to achieve Net zero emission target of Parish agreement. In this service, we study the Nationally determined contribution, identifies the sectors and sub sectors, possible activity types, available and proposed methodologies and then implements the emissions reduction or removal projects. We identify the different compliance and voluntary Market-based mechanism and propose the best options. We design the GHG Emissions trading system or Carbon tax rate and recommendation of linking with other ETS around the world.

The nature related offerings include Natural capital accounting, Biodiversity credits, Nature credits, Ecosystem goods & services valuation. For achieving the target under the Convention on Biological Diversity, we identify the areas for project implementation of voluntary biodiversity credits standards. We also help the government, for reporting of UN System of environmental economic accounting under NCAVES pilot project. We help the government to receive Result based payment from UN REDD+ program and ART-TREES standard.

The list of Nature related services provided and products traded by us is as below,

Biodiversity and Nature services provided by us are:

Carbon credit trading _ Consultant / Advisor / Expert / Developer / Trader / Broker / Retailer.

Carbon footprint - Corporate sustainability - Environmental _ Consultant / Advisor / Auditor.

Greenhouse gas - Carbon emission allowances permit trading system _ Intensity - India.

Greenhouse gas - Carbon emission allowances permit trading system _ Gujarat State.

Carbon credit _ Validation / Registration / Verification / Certification / Issuances / Trading.

Clean development mechanism _ Project design & monitoring report - UNFCCC.

Gold standard for the global goals _ Sustainable development goals - GSF, Switzerland.

Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) _ The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES).

VERRA - Verified carbon standard _ VCS, CCBS, SD Vista, J N REDD+ F, PWRS - USA.

Biodiversity credit, Biodiversity footprint, Nature credit, Blue carbon credit, Net zero emissions.

Natural capital accounting, Environmental economic accounting, Ecosystem goods & services valuation.

Green, Blue & Biodiversity bonds _ Objectives evaluation - Additionality, Validation, Monitoring, Verification, Impact assessment.

Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) _ Frameworks - SBTi, CDP, GRI. Assurance - IAASB, ISSA-5000.

Business responsibility and Sustainability reporting (BRSR) _ NGRBC - LODR - SEBI - MCA - India.

ISO 14064 & Emission scope - 1, 2, 3, _ Inventory, Performance, Audit - Direct, Indirect, Indirect.

Biodiversity and Nature products traded by us are:

Carbon emission allowance permit / offset - trading, (CCM / VCM).

Certified emission reduction (CER) - Credit trading, (UNFCCC).

Verified / Voluntary emission reduction (VER) - Credit trading, (GSFGG).

Emission reduction and removal (ERR) - Credit trading, (ART - TREES).

Verified carbon unit (VCU) - Credit trading, (VERRA - VCS).

For your business’s Decarbonisation & Nature related solution and opportunities enquiries, please contact VPA India at following contact details.

Registered office: A-31, Shastri nagar society, Deluxe crossing, Nizampura Rd, 390002, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

Branch office: 26, Indu Chacha house, Channi circle, Nizampura Rd, 390002, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

Mobile: +91 8905541120 (WhatsApp) / +91 8905541125

Email ID: info@decarbonisation.expert

Websites: https://decarbonisation.expert

B2B Catalogue: https://indiamart.com/vpa-india

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vpaindia

The consultancy and audit services rates for all services and pre conceptualisation forms of project are available at this weblink.

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