Question 1

How do I know my money is guaranteed to go towards improved biodiversity?

Accepted Answer

All our partners have charitable status and their MOU with us dictates they must spend those funds on delivery of the described conservation action. Our annual impact reports for CBAC show exactly where the money has gone and the outcomes delivered.

Question 2

How much of my money goes towards conservation?

Accepted Answer

90%, the rest goes to Carbonz for opperationalising the CBAC.

Question 3

What happens if the funding stops and the pests just come back and kill the Whio next year?

Accepted Answer

We only fund well-established projects where more than 50% of the funding already comes from another source with a high probability of continuity.

Question 4

Can I see where my CBAC is?

Accepted Answer

Yes every CBAC has GPS coordinates associated with it so you can see exactly where your biodiversity impact is and the area your funds are having an impact.

Question 5

What do the coordinates for the CBAC mean?

Accepted Answer

Each CBAC set of GPS coordinates that is owned, is linked to the outcome of the CBAC. I.E. We upload the same GPS coordinates to both types of CBAC (type A and type B) and you hold the beneficial ownership over the restoration action associated with that CBAC for each site. For example, if you buy a CBAC A, you are funding the establishment of a trap of a specific site and protection for one year, and if you buy CBAC B, you are funding the subsequent upkeep for that trap or another site associated with a type A CBAC.

Question 6

Why an incentive payment rather than a reward for an outcome?

Accepted Answer

The CBAC is a more pragmatic way to restore biodiversity with high efficacy. Rather than coming up with a metric to quantify biodiversity outcomes from a project and trading them, the CBAC funds the initial action. A considerable administration/ consulting cost can be used up in outcome verification that doesn’t contribute to additional biodiveristy. All our CBAC projects are of high quality so have high biodiversity outcomes which enables a greater portion of funding to go to the project. In addition, funding the action rather than the outcomes provides the finance up front for landowners to protect biodiversity and there is no need for bridge finance. Carbonz wants to make sure every dollar goes as far as possible towards real on the ground impact.

Question 7

How do Carbonz make money on the CBAC

Accepted Answer

We are adding value around traceability, authentification, validation and development of CBAC projects we want to make sure funds are going as far as possible to impact. For this Carbonz takes a 10% of the transaction fee. This is the highest efficacy biodiversity credit we know of globally.

Question 8

How do you know this will protect as much habitat as you say it will?

Accepted Answer

Our projects follow best practice Science and conservation practice as recommended by the Department of Conservation. For example for our Whio project there is one trap every 100m up a single side of the river, which is widely accepted best practice across the country. This is a best practice that has been informed by years of Whio protection projects. This formula has been used extensively throughout the country with the Tongariro River, Ruahine Whio Protectors, Sika Foundation and many department of conservation projects proving this method to be very effective in supporting Whio to breed. The volunteers who work on these projects have worked on and helped establish a vast array of projects around the country and have brought that collective knowledge to the projects we are supporting through the CBAC.

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