'GOING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY'
Carbon Offsets as a Community-Based Economic EngineLICO2e™ is an emerging public benefit corporation (in partnership with the St Croix Institute), that provides voluntary carbon market services for maximizing the leverage of “locally invested carbon offsets”.
The power of LICO2e™ is maximized through its support and service to Public/Private/NGO partnerships, that allow local, regional, state, and/or national stakeholders the opportunity to see their carbon dollars invested to the benefit of their own local economy. Unlike other voluntary offset opportunities in the marketplace, where dollars commonly leave the local economy, LICO2e™ is committed to keeping those dollars at home. Applied examples are numerous. Whether it is an individual offsetting a business trip, a family offsetting a personal vacation, a local law firm offsetting it services, an NGO developing a community capital fund for solar gardens, a campus off-setting student travel abroad, or a multinational corporation effectively and efficiently maximizing community impact, the focus on and the aggregated power of community investment in carbon offsets at every scale is unquestionable. LICO2e™ offers the opportunity to creatively and strategically monetize carbon to the benefit of building community resilience across the breadth and depth of local priorities. LICO2e™ is the next logical step devoted to ‘walking the talk’ around the ‘re-localization of community economics’ in energy, food, water, shelter, clothing, transportation, education, healthcare, safety/security, ‘the arts,’ business, industry, and commerce across the board. Our work and partnerships are committed to disruptive entrepreneurship and market responses to the ‘best available science’ on climate change. As such, the response from the St Croix Institute from its inception, has been a ‘Carbon Negative’ objective. The carbon needle needs to be moved backwards. Carbon Neutrality in light of the best available science, is too little, too late. Our strategies and service are devoted to ‘getting beyond sustainability’ and moving our clients and partners profitably into restorative and regenerative solutions for the dynamic challenges we face, and the unprecedented voluntary carbon market opportunities they unleash. SERVICES: LICO2e™ services menu revolves around support and facilitation in four different contexts:
TICO2e™ Capital Development Funding Platform: Our TICO2e™ capital development funding and brokerage service platform not only provides a real time opportunity for calculating carbon footprints, but also smooth, immediate, and secure payment and brokering for tribally sourced carbon and other greenhouse gas offsets of the calculated footprint. The TICO2e™ funding platform is now actively being marketed as a licensable, ‘capital development funding’ mechanism. It provides a full-service platform for community, regional, and/or national foundations, non-profits, local / regional units of government, and various stakeholder collaboratives to ‘white label’ the TICO2e™ tool. This allows rebranding of the TICO2e™ capital development funding and brokerage platform as their own strategic GHG carbon offset funding and brokerage service portal to pay for their priority climate action initiatives. Licensing projects have been in active discussion with a number of potential partners for the past two years. |
Clients & Projects
LICO2e™ specialize in development and management of public-private partnerships, especially corporate-community stakeholder collaborations, committed to ‘carbon negative’ strategies and projects, large and small, at the local level.
We are committed to partnerships that establish and implement decarbonization strategies that are positively disruptive in nature (environmentally, socially, and economically), and that clearly contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change impacts at the local and regional level.
These individual projects are often not currently marketable in voluntary offset markets (e.g. Kildegaard Farm, & WestCAP - below), but in aggregation, clearly contribute to:
LICO2e™ is also engaged with our growing list of clients, partners, and stakeholders to conceptualize, benchmark, aggregate, market, and broker voluntary carbon offsets, that target ‘carbon negative’ outcomes. We provide collaborative support to the development of offset opportunities based on ‘additionality’ and established protocols by which offsets are verified, certified, third-party audited, and sold in the market.
We are committed to partnerships that establish and implement decarbonization strategies that are positively disruptive in nature (environmentally, socially, and economically), and that clearly contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change impacts at the local and regional level.
These individual projects are often not currently marketable in voluntary offset markets (e.g. Kildegaard Farm, & WestCAP - below), but in aggregation, clearly contribute to:
- growing community resilience and self-sufficiency;
- social equity of shared access and economic benefit;
- restorative and regenerative, environmental integrity;
- real-time educational and public transparency of performance metrics, graphics, and reported outcomes.
LICO2e™ is also engaged with our growing list of clients, partners, and stakeholders to conceptualize, benchmark, aggregate, market, and broker voluntary carbon offsets, that target ‘carbon negative’ outcomes. We provide collaborative support to the development of offset opportunities based on ‘additionality’ and established protocols by which offsets are verified, certified, third-party audited, and sold in the market.
Formed by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) and the Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC), NICC is an Indian-led non-profit program that helps tribal nations and individual Indian landowners take advantage of carbon credit and environmental commodities markets through the development of carbon sequestration or offset projects. LICO2e™ (w/ the St Croix Institute), is the exclusive contractual vendor for Carbon Offset & Renewable Energy Credits Program Management in support of the NICC mission. Priority focus is on economic development opportunities that preserve tribal nation and tribal member land ownership, while returning profits to reservation economies and communities.
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AgricultureKildegaard Farm is an exceptionally valued client, who we are partnering with to benchmark, develop protocol, and eventually sell soil carbon offsets from their carefully managed rotational grazed cattle. The evidence is very strong in not only recognizing the critical carbon sink that soil represents, but in the integrity of the growing science in support of rotational grazing as a valuable carbon sequestration strategy.
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Social Equity & BenefitIt’s been been a privilege to work with West Central Wisconsin Community Action Partnership (WestCAP), who provides a highly diverse menu of carbon offset opportunities in service to the elimination of poverty and development of financial security of the families they serve across nine (9) counties. WestCAP, a well-known national leader among the 1,100-plus CAP agencies across the country, represents the opportunity for nation-wide replicability, and scalability. Success with this client represents the best of all worlds in realizing social equity outcomes through strategic environmental investments.
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LICO2e™ is actively engaged in public-private partnership conversations with numerous entities, and national implications. We move with a sense of urgency, as we have little time to waste.
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Please feel free to contact us at the St. Croix Institute with questions about services and opportunities to assist your efforts, and learn more about the value-added integration of LICO2e™ in all of your strategic sustainability-based initiatives.