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American Carbon Registry And TZ1 Registry Announce Strategic Partnership Today

Date 08/04/2009

American Carbon Registry, an enterprise of Winrock International and the longest serving U.S. carbon registry, and TZ1 Registry have announced a strategic partnership today, to stimulate the market for trading U.S. pre-compliance and global voluntary market carbon offsets.

The agreement demonstrates a convergence of expertise and provides a much needed mechanism for efficient trading of high quality carbon offsets. TZ1 will provide its sophisticated online registry infrastructure to the American Carbon Registry, including real-time web-based secure accounts to buy, sell, hold and retire carbon offsets. American Carbon Registry will continue to contribute its expert in-house capabilities in high quality offset standards development and offset issuance.

This partnership will provide TZ1 and American Carbon Registry members access to significant volumes of offsets. The American Carbon Registry, the largest U.S. registry, boasts registration of over 26 million tradable offsets and has a large current offset pipeline of key pre-compliance tons from project types including forestry, fuel switching, land use change, agriculture and landfill methane, and geologic sequestration.

TZ1, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NZX, has listed more than 8.5 million tons of international offsets in the last eight months.

For more information please view the full announcement from American Carbon Registry and TZ1 Registry.